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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {October 31, 2014 edition}
Do you not find it amazing that today is the last day of October? They say that time seems to go faster as you get older. If that’s the case, Methusaleh might want to look out, because I must be getting really old! Of course, today is Halloween, and whether you celebrate this holiday or not, we hope you enjoy the sights of the changing seasons…and maybe eat a piece of candy, too! On to this week’s family links. This Week’s Finds The Small Things that Make or Break a Marriage {We are THAT Family} 3 Ways a Man Can Keep His Family Together {Jackie Bledsoe} Why My Kids Don’t…
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Celebrations
You can find out a good deal about a person simply by observing what they celebrate. To celebrate is to “observe or commemorate with ceremonies or festivities.” There are certainly times where celebration is in order. But it seems that our self-centered world is rejoicing in many things that are not worthy of celebration. We should not celebrate when we perform ordinary responsibilities. Twice this year an NFL defensive player has injured himself and perhaps ended his career for celebrating the execution of a tackle. Stephen Tulloch and Lamarr Houston both tore their ACL’s because they tried to jump and make a dance move after they sacked the quarterback. They…
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Training Your Children for Worship 2: Family Devotionals on the Acts of Worship {Free Printables}
Last week, we shared the first of four free printables to help you train your children for worship. If you missed that one, which was a devotional guide about worship, click here and you can get it for free. To continue with the free stuff, we have another family devotional guide for you this week. This time, though, it is a SET of devotional guides. There are five in all, one for each of the five avenues of worship. As with the other guides, these are meant to help you have family devotionals that are only about 10 minutes in length and that help by getting input from the children.…
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Friendly Fire
[NOTE: This post was originally published on jimfaughn.com. It is reprinted here with permission.] Military spokesmen and the news media seem to use a variety of phrases in an attempt to sanitize some of the unpleasant aspects of war. From time to time, we hear reports of troops being wounded or killed by “friendly fire.” That somehow sounds better than having to report that the damage was done by one of our own bullets, missiles, bombs, etc. Sometimes, the evidence indicates that the fire was not so friendly. At times, some apparently take advantage of the confusion caused by the intensity of a particular battle to settle some personal grudge…
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Why We Made Our 7-Year-Old Sign a Minecraft Contract
Minecraft. I know very little about this game, except that our son has been begging us to download it for months. It is one of the few times he has truly fixated on something for more than a few days. After doing some light research and seeing that is a fairly harmless game, we decided to let him get the game on Leah’s iPad… …after he signed a contract. That’s right, our 7-year-old had to sign a contract to get and play the game. The short document stated such things as: He would pay for the game himself out of his saving jar. If he complained when told to turn…
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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {October 24, 2014 edition}
Things just continue to churn here at A Legacy of Faith. If we haven’t told you recently, thank you! You have helped our site continue to grow, and we simply pray that you are encouraged by each post and podcast you receive from us. This site takes some work, but it is a labor of love, and we hope you enjoy it. Now, on to this week’s family links. This Week’s Finds Grieving Miscarriage {Start2Finish} 7 Thoughtful Ways to Raise Non-Materialistic Children {ChristianPF} Suggestions for Influencing Teens {National Center for Biblical Parenting} 7 Strategies for Talking to Your Kids about Sex {for the family} Our Week in Review The following…
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What Did Jesus Really Look Like?
Images of art and culture often shape our minds concerning those faces we have never seen. The depictions of historical figures before the days of photographs have often cast into our minds a portrayal that may not be completely accurate. How many times have you gotten to know a radio personality by ear, had a vision of that person in your mind, and then saw them on television or in a photograph – only to find they look completely different than what you had imagined? If one were to compare the picture that the Bible paints of Jesus with the last 2000 years of portraits of Christ from art and…
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Training Your Children for Worship 1: A Devotional on Worship {Free Printable}
In our latest podcast, Leah and I talked about the importance of training our children for worship. Also in that podcast, we mentioned how we are going to be sharing some posts and printables to help you do that. We have settled on four posts–to be released on Wednesdays–and today is the first in those posts. The importance of a family discussing things in the home cannot be overstated. Through family devotionals, a family can gain a great deal of closeness and can focus more clearly on connecting with God. These times are also wonderful training grounds to discuss areas in which we want our children to grow. (By the…
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On Disruptive Children in Worship
As a preacher, I get asked a lot of interesting questions. Often, people are just seeking my opinion on a matter, while at other times, they are questions about how certain things affect (or don’t) my work. One of the more common questions I get asked is along these lines: Do crying babies bother you when you are preaching? My immediate answer is “No!” I can honestly say that, probably only once or twice, has a child’s “disruption” disrupted me while preaching. Thankfully, I have been told that it wasn’t noticed by those listening. Instead, it was all in just my train of thought and trying to keep my thinking straight.…
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An Important Lesson from an Unexpected Source
I’ve been reading a book our son gave me for my birthday. The name of the book is When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. The author of the book is David Maraniss. Even the most casual observer of “the sports world” probably recognizes that Vince Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers and led them to a number of NFL championships (five world championships in nine years, to be exact). This is not a book from which I would expect to find much about God, religion, etc. I thought I would only learn about a man who is legendary as a football coach. I thought I’d learn some interesting…
