Scripture memory can be easy and fun to incorporate into your child’s routine, your homeschool, or your Sunday school class. This 21-page Bible Memory Verse Activity Pack for Kids has a fun variety of pages to help kids practice their Bible memory verses. Activities include everything from simply writing the verse in an interesting way to creating a puzzle or game out of it. We even have a comic strip template! This pack of Bible worksheets is designed so you can choose the ones you want to print. There are also different levels of activities: some for older kids, some for younger. Print the ones that work for your kids.…

Why should kids memorize Bible verses? Feeds their mind with God’s Truth. Let’s be honest. Kids memorize all kinds of information, song lyrics, and pop culture phrases. They are FULLY capable of memorizing Bible verses. And there is no more important thing to put in their minds. If you are following Christ, and want your kids to follow Christ, feed them with the truth of Scripture. Make Bible memory a priority. Here is why we should have Bible memory verses for kids. Plants the seeds of the gospel. Specifically, we want to plant the truth of the gospel in our children’s hearts and minds. 1 Timothy 3:16 says the Word…

Fumbling, waking fingers reach around the edge of my worn, thick, hardcover Bible for the leather bookmark I made when I was a child.  Opening where it is, I begin reading where I left off the day before… purposeful steps forward in this journey of following Jesus. Yesterday ended with frustration about housework, husband, and homeschooling… And why am I living this life anyway?  When did I pick this?  I’ve lost my vision, Lord. But today I choose this… this intake of truth, this abiding in the Word. “Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” 1 Timothy 4:7 And my heart grows a bit more content in Christ today than yesterday.…

{This post contains affiliate links.} This journey toward growing a content heart started over two years ago.  I have not arrived.  But the Lord is teaching me through many daily, mundane aspects of life, how to be content with what we have, right where we are. So to give you an idea of what life is like in my home, as we seek to be more content and teach our kids what this means, here are a few specific ways we are working on this: 69 Ways We Are Learning Contentment in Our Home Kids help out with chores. Regular Goodwill/donation sweeps. Pretty much always making food at home. Eating…

Yelling.  Tattling. Whining.  Hitting. Arguing.  Bad attitudes. The more we said “love one another” and “be kind,” the more our kids seemed to…well, not care.  Sibling conflict was at critical mass. If you think about it, phrases like “be nice to each other” are not very specific.  And let’s be honest.  Even if you understand how “being nice” works, in the heat of being offended, if you have no plan, the situation spirals. My small humans needed clear, simple steps. We could not go on—the way they were treating each other, and even us parents, had to stop.  But I knew my inexperienced children needed some specific, workable guidance to make…

{This post contains affiliate links.} You could drown in all the spiritual growth books on the market today.  There is even a sizable mound of resources specifically on finding joy and contentment.  But here I reveal my precious gems—the books that have transformed my thinking, my priorities, and my passions.  They have fueled my journey seeking a content heart. Are you discontent?  Constantly anxious about your circumstances?  If you and I sat down over coffee and you asked me for help with this, these are the books I would say you should have in your hands.  Maybe there is one in here for you, sister. 4  Must-Read Books for the Discontent…

{This post contains affiliate links.} As a stay-at-home, work-at-home, homeschool mom ninja, I wear about a thousand hats.  Every mom can relate on some level.  And adding his homeschool thing brings so much pressure to “get it right,” on top of everything else we are responsible for. For the longest time, I simply accepted the pressure of Pinterest, the perfect homeschool mom bloggers, what I thought people expected of me and my kids, and my own perfectionism.  I let this pressure rule how I planned my homeschool days.  You better believe my kids felt that pressure too. The Lord has taken me down a couple notches.  I am learning contentment.…

What do you think when I say “contentment”? Happiness? Peace? Joy? Thankfulness? All of those can be fitting.  But those are end results. How do we get there?  What path must I walk to be able to look around me, look inside myself and say, “Yes.  I have arrived.  I have peace.  Joy.  I am content where I am”? Well, this post won’t answer that question.  I am here today to post caution signs.  I have walked many paths trying to get to contentment.  So. Many. Paths.  Attitudes that even strong Christians fall into.  And many lead in the wrong direction. What kind of friend would I be if I…

Christmas is coming.  It’s practically here.  And everyone is losing their minds.  Can’t you feel it?  Or are you one of those who is losing your mind? I felt a bit of it coming on last night… The checklist of things I probably should buy, accomplish, or go see so that I can Rock. This. Christmas. Whoa.  Really?  Where does that come from?  Oh, wait, I saw a commercial telling me to “rock this Christmas” and a sign in Wal-Mart saying the same thing.  I don’t remember it being this way when I was a kid in the 80’s. Of course, if there was anything my parents excelled at, it…

For a third time, I dive into the details of things we are doing in our home to grow content kids.  As I worked on this post, I found myself getting lost in the details—making sure it would all be perfectly complete for you guys. But what’s the big picture?  Why have strategies for all this?  What is the focus that drives such a campaign as raising content kids?   Growing Content Kids {Part 2} Soft, frail 4-year-old arms lightly wrap themselves into my arms.  Giant, sleepy blue eyes soak up my mommy-eyes, in the waking moments of the morning.  Messy strawberry blonde hair tickles my chin, as we snuggle in.  *deep breath*…

Last week, I wrote about 4 Ways to Create Selfish Kids. Not that we are doing these things on purpose.  We don’t set out to create selfish kids.  They are born that way.  But everything we do either encourages them in their selfishness, or shows them a better way.  How do we create content kids?   Growing Content Kids {Part 1} As promised, we will dive into my current solutions to this problem—ways we are working on creating content kids in our home.  I’ve split this up into two parts because I had so much to say—this post is Part 1.  I’m going to address my first two points from last week: 1.…

“My turn!” “But that’s not fun!” “She’s not being fair!” “I don’t wanna do it!” Sound familiar? With each kid (we’re up to 4), God has opened my eyes wider to the nature of a child’s heart.  They are selfish from the womb.  “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)  There is no escaping this.  And as parents, everything–everything–everything we do either encourages that selfishness or points them to a better way.  God’s way. 4 Ways to Create Selfish Kids {and what I’m doing about it} I’m currently reading the best book ever on this topic. Ultimately, we pray for the salvation of…