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Chaos and the Book of John: The Good Book Club and My Beloved Youth Group

February 5, 2020 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

What happens when a youth group reads the Book of John for The Good Book Club? It’s hectic, chaotic, and perfect.

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Filed Under: Good Book Club, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: Bible, Jesus, John, Lazarus, Mary and Martha, Scripture, teenagers, teens, The Good Book Club, youth group

Our Family’s Guide for the Good Book Club

January 25, 2020 By Emily Watkins

I love Epiphany.  I love the stories of the Magi, Anna, Simeon, Paul, Peter, the wedding guests, and others who realize who Jesus is and why he has come.

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Filed Under: Good Book Club Tagged With: art, Bible, children, Epiphany, Scripture, The Good Book Club, young children

Reveal the Hope that is in You

January 13, 2020 By Genevieve Razim 2 Comments

“Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: Bible, children, hope, kindness, Scripture

Life keeps throwing curveballs, my family keeps catching them

March 14, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 8 Comments

How do you talk to your children about death? In particular, how do you talk about your death? When illness strikes, the McKenneys turn to God for strength.

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Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: children, Family, God, health, illness, Jesus, Luke, Prayer, Scripture, teenagers, teens

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a visit from Life

January 31, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 17 Comments

Parenting gets rough when everyone’s problems happen at the same time. What do you do when eveyrone in the family struggles — including you?

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Bible, depression, prayer cards, Psalms, Scripture, teenagers, teens, young children

Scripture engagement works. My teens dove deeper.

January 20, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

God’s story is rich with adventure, love, deceit, and every situation and emotion imaginable. My kids are hooked. My new theory about reading the Bible with kids: they’re never too young to be challenged, and they’re never too old to wonder. Join us as we read Luke and Acts!

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Filed Under: Easter, Lent, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, children, Easter, families, Forward Movement, kids, Lent, Scripture, teens, The Good Book Club

Epiphany revelations from the Old Testament

January 6, 2018 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Epiphany offers us a chance to remember that Jesus was a king, but not the king people thought he would be. He was a baby, a child of God, and his life promised that we, too, would all be children of God. The prophets foretold him, God revealed him, the Three Kings honored him, and we adore him.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: babies, Bible, Epiphany, faith community, God, Jesus, kids, parenting, Scripture, teens, Three Kings, youth

My youth group is reading Exodus. They not-so-secretly like it.

October 19, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, my youth group joined Southern Ohio’s Diocesan Big Read, where we all read Exodus in community. What would my youth group think of my plan to have Bible study each week? Would extra snacks help? Here’s what happened.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, Exodus, God, Moses, Scripture, Sunday, youth, youth group

Praying our way on the narrow path

October 5, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

I don’t know about your feed, but mine is full of posts about how to talk to our children about this latest tragedy. Here’s where God led us when we finally did.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Bible, Book of Common Prayer, human disaster, natural disaster, Prayer, psalm, Scripture, teens, tragedy

A Hurricane of Love is Happening!

September 27, 2017 By Rachel Jones 1 Comment

I’m so pleased and honored to be holding and sending out your love letters. Keep ‘em coming!

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Forward Movement, hurricane, Hurricane of Love 2017, Prayer, relief, Scripture

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