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The foster care crisis has flown below most peoples’ radars. We simply don’t know it’s happening in our own backyards. Foster care is a journey that's deeply enriched by community support, essential for the healing of foster children and their caretakers. Imagine if every church became a sanctuary of hope, strength, and transformation for these families. Let's explore how your church can play this crucial role.
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If you have never experienced family worship before, you may not be doing it now. That's ok; it is never too late to start. Do not worry about doing it perfectly or that your kids do not have the whole Westminster Shorter Catechism memorized yet. Just start. Here are some recommendations on how to conduct family worship starting today.
What Is Family Worship?
The things we cultivate now will be harvested later. For many of us, family worship is one of those quaint, idealistic visions of families eating around a dinner table, reading the Bible, and doing catechisms with our kids. While it is easy to blame Netflix and Disney+ for distracting us from connecting as families, it is also unlikely we experienced family worship ourselves, and we don’t know what it is, why it is important, or how to do it.
Advent Devotional Day 18
The shepherds left their visit glorifying and rejoicing about what they had just experienced. It was all true, the angel’s song was true!
In the midst of everything going on around her, Mary treasured and pondered all that she had heard in her heart. Imagine her expectation about her son’s life! She was already preparing to meet Him and see everything that Jesus would do.