Category: Weekly character projects

Encouraging a Thankful Heart

A thankful heart is a heart that is ready to obey. It’s so easy for children to be unaware of the many ways their parents serve them. We need to help them learn to be thankful. Sit down with your children and make a list of all the ways their daddy serves your family. Talk together, ask them leading questions, and give them some suggestions. Assign one of the children […]

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Good News!

You’ve seen it… Two children are playing. Child No. 1 sets down his toy to pick up a new one, and suddenly Child No. 2 is discontent. He no longer wants what he already has. He wants what the other child has. He reaches out for the toy and yells when he can’t have it. He fusses and cries, and seeks to get his way. He’s coveting. Next time you’re […]

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Honoring One Another

It’s Wednesday night and I just spent a couple hours working on a post, only to watch my computer eat up the entire document, letter by letter. It looked like a video game where some little animal was gobbling down a string of words as fast as he could. The the cursor sat there quivering, like it was giggling over its great trick. It was actually kind of funny. It […]

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Helping Our Children Run the Race – Setting Goals

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:15). We’re running a race. So are our children. The beginning of a new year is a good time to reevaluate our goals. Are we running in the right direction or are we distracted by lots of good and not-so-good things along the way? New Year’s has traditionally been the time […]

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Giving More than We Receive

“It is more blessed to give than to receive…” (Acts 20:35) Children can easily become very focused on getting during the Christmas season. If we want our children to be blessed, and if it is truly more blessed to give than to receive, we need to teach our children to give. Try this simple activity to encourage your children to give more than they receive throughout the day. Not only […]

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Sailing with the Pilgrims!

I’m looking forward to eating dinner on the “Mayflower” again someday. Instead of our own six children, it will be their children that huddle with me in the dark and pretend they are on the Mayflower, eating hardtack and dried meat while the winds blow and the ship pitches on the waves. Help your children appreciate the risks the Pilgrims took to come to the New World where they could […]

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Decorating Bible Verses with Leaf Art

Greetings! This is Katelyn, Daniel’s wife. For several years now I’ve enjoyed making what I call ‘leaf-art’. However, they have been in such high demand as gifts that precious few have ever made it onto our walls! So, not only has this contest helped us get Scripture stenciled on our walls, but it’s given me the excuse to take the time and make some frameable verses. With all the beautiful […]

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Heroes for Our Children

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set […]

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What to Do with “I Want It Now!”

If you have more than one child, you’ve had to help your children learn to share. Most household sharing problems start when one child decides he wants something another child has – now. Both children in this situation need to be instructed. One needs to learn to be content. The other needs to learn to share. Let’s focus on the first child today. It can be challenging to teach young […]

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More on Sharing

“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others”(Philippians 2:4). What does it mean to share? What are we trying to teach our children when we teach them to share? There are at least two sides to sharing: Letting others enjoy the things we have. This is the obvious part of sharing. One child has a toy, and he needs to learn […]

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