Delayed Fruit

Sovereignty of God Please excuse my tendency to interrupt my series on raising a New Covenant child. I ran across a story this week that I could not help but draw reference to in regard to our study on the Spirit’s role in your child’s life. The story is a lesson your children need to…

Swimming Pool Faith

Sovereignty of God When teaching your children about faith it is important to balance for them the second and most powerful half of the faith equation; God’s role and responsibility backing it. The faith we are attempting to teach our children is more than what they  do to please God, buy prescription it is also…

Salvation Secured

When a child gives his/her life to Christ, usa ambulance all passive and active rebellion (sin) against God is taken care of forever.   This is one of God’s first gifts given to believing children.    Even though a child may rebel many times against God in the future, the child’s position before God can never be…

Trapeze Faith Part 4

Ghost and the Darkness The fall a trapeze artist experiences during a high bar performance is analogous to the spiritual plunges we all experience in our individual journey with Christ. These spiritual tumbles hurt in varying degrees depending on the nature and height of the fall.   There are actually only two falls we experience.  One…

Trapeze Faith Part 3

Resurrection Platform Teaching children about victory The illustration of a trapeze performer leaping from one platform to the another is analogous to the way God develops our walk with Him.   In this article I have chosen the imagery of the platforms between which a trapeze artist leaps, because it helps me visualize how God works…

Trapeze Faith Part 2

Life on God’s Platform Teaching children how to handle their own sin This is the second article in the Trapeze faith series which focuses on a saving and sustaining faith (located on my web site). A high-flying trapeze act was the analogy presented in the first article to illustrate and define the essentials of a…

Trapeze Faith Part 1

Teaching children about the path to salvation Years ago, buy ampoule while living in Denver, Colorado, my wife, Myrna, and I took our two young children (Brodie and Shannon) to the circus.   While in the “Big Tent,” there was one act that caught us all by surprise.   It was the man on the high-flying trapeze.  …

Ben

“Whoever then humbles himself as this child, best no rx he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;” (Matthew 18: 4-5) A 6TH GRADE STUDENT NAMED BEN  “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, sovaldi he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever…

I Can’s of Faith

Doing God’s work in any fashion takes a great deal of faith and commitment.  I remember how reticent I felt the first time I was asked to share my faith to college students I did not know on a beach in Southern California some 35 years ago.    This first experience of sharing my faith was…

Hopelessness to Hope

I ran across a story a while ago, buy sovaldi which has always helped me hold onto God’s love and purpose, even in the midst of hopeless circumstances. If you are like me, I often ask God a series of questions during these times like: will my circumstances ever change, will my dreams ever come…