Today I worked in the preschool nursery for church. The four year old children were all interested in a toy that was stuck deep in the cylinder of a shelf leg. I started to go into teacher mode– “What have you done to solve the problem? Will that work? Why not?” I was mostly trying […]
Spiritual Gift or Talent?
This week I’ve been thinking about the process of teaching children about spiritual gifts. I realized that I probably was getting ahead of myself with ideas, and wanted to go back and review and meditate what the Bible says about spiritual gifts again. In 1 Corinthians 12, we have both a list of gifts and […]
Teaching about Spiritual Gifts
At the church we’ve been attending, the new members’ class includes a discussion about spiritual gifts. Since David and Bethel are a part of the class, they took the spiritual gifts inventory. (They also completed and discussed a simpler inventory with their youth group.) Some churches do go overboard with teaching about spiritual gifts, and […]
Let’s Throw Out Titus 2
My blog is deliberately narrow. I write about what God is teaching me as a mother, but I’m not writing only to mothers. In fact, my single friends who read and give feedback have taught me that they are learning in other contexts many of the same lessons I’m learning as a mother. Nevertheless, I’ve […]
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