Ministry Tools

10 Practical Things You Can Do To Model What a Life of Faith Looks Like to Your Children

“One of the predominant theories of child development stems from this concept that children are social learners, they learn a lot from interacting with their environment and by imitating their parents’ example. That’s why so often when kids are playing ‘make believe’ they will imitate real life basic scenarios they have encountered as they try and understand…

14 reasons why Proverbs 18 can help build “Super” families.

Proverbs 18 – What an amazing scripture to help us with family life. Reading Proverbs 18 today has given me encouragement to persevere with training my children and being a better mum and wife. It’s a huge encouragement for families, especially if like us you are currently in lock-down due to COVID-19. Here’s 14 reasons…

My kids are too SLOW!! – 5 surprising biblical Steps to stop parent frustration.

It can be a shock how slow life becomes once you’ve had a baby. Especially if you have been highly productive in your “past life”. For many of us it is tempting to become impatient and we can find ourselves becoming angry or frustrated before we even understand why. As a mother of 5 kids…

Abraham and Sarah’s Faithful Sex Life (Part 3)

We left Abraham in a pretty vulnerable situation on Tuesday (See This Post). Things were a bit sensitive. Abraham had submitted to God’s promise of a Son with a very personal act of dedication! He had declared that he (and all his household) would be circumcised! (Genesis 17:23) Not sure the staff would have been…

What’s Your Flavour? – Completed Talk

For those who followed my kids’ talk journey over the last few weeks, thank you for your prayers. They were beautifully answered. I felt them lift me, particularly when my legs turned to jelly just before I went on stage. Then I saw their fruit when so many hearts and hands responded to the gospel message…

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This is a short post because I have a lot going on this week with my talk coming up. But I woke up the other morning with this little revelation and I thought I’d share. I was thinking about a decision one of my kids is making. Well, maybe I was dreaming about it because,…

How I Write a Kids’ Bible Talk

So, like I said yesterday, there is a children’s talk to be written, and soon. (Help!) I have been writing kids bible talks for about 15 years now. I was so privileged in my 5th year of knowing Christ, to get a job in a Christian Community school. One of my roles as a classroom…