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    72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids
    72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids
    72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids
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    72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids

    By Kolby & Mary Beth King

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    Featuring 72 action-packed, easy-to-lead family devotions. Set aside a night or two each week for a "special time" where you and your kids can have family fun together and learn valuable lessons from God's Word. No advanced planning is needed. Anyone can do this. Just grab your special time devotion for the night and it will tell you what to do and what you need, if anything. To make these devotions even easier, we have designed them to use items that are commonly found in most homes.

    The ebook contains devotions concerning a variety of topics including salvation, fear, trust, sin, forgiveness and much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKolby & Mary Beth King
    Release dateDec 24, 2012
    ISBN9781301247721
    72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids
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    Kolby & Mary Beth King

    God changed their lives… With that being said, Kolby is the children's minister at First Baptist Church in Owasso, Oklahoma, where he and Mary Beth, his wife, minister to 150 elementary students each week. They are also the founders of three-thirty ministries, a resource network for the purpose of providing affordable resources to churches and families around the world. Kolby is a ventriloquist (which basically means he likes to talk to himself) and Mary Beth eats fire as a way of sharing the Gospel. During their years in evangelism and student ministry, they picked up other interesting ministry tools including stunts with six-foot balloons, balloon sculptures, fire-juggling (which one should never do on a windy day!), and a variety of other unique activities for the purpose of sharing Jesus with others. Learn more about events or training conference they can bring to your church or organization at http://www.threethirtyministries.org/kolby-king. "Jesus must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30

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      72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids - Kolby & Mary Beth King

      72 Family Devotions

      For Spiritually Training Your Kids

      Kolby & Mary Beth King

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Kolby King

      Check out more books by Kolby and Mary Beth King at Smashwords.com.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Of all the nobles matters to which an individual can devote himself—from the political office that leads a nation toward moral correctness, from the writer’s pad upon which years of knowledge and wisdom pour, to the laboratory where the cure for an incurable disease is revealed—nothing so compares to the great work of investing one’s life in raising godly children who fully devote themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      An Artificial Culture of God

      General Topic Devotions

      Build a Fort

      Treasure Hunt

      Fun Hair Night

      Hit or Miss

      The Shield

      Goodbye Sins

      One Way

      Toothpaste Squeeze

      Spoon Catapults

      Izzy Dizzy Walking Wobble

      Tongue Twisters

      Light Please

      Temptation Tools

      Possible or Impossible?

      Walking in Darkness

      Clean Pennies, Clean Hearts

      A House of Cards

      Oh, What a Change!

      Resurrection Power

      Rolled Away

      Cereal Feed

      Sink or Float

      Make Them Disappear

      Showing Something New

      Taste Testers

      Devotions on Prayer

      Casting Cares

      Knock, Knock—Part 1

      Knock, Knock—Part 2

      Bread and Fish

      Have Nots, Ask Nots

      Stay Alert

      Who’s Your Daddy?

      The Great Race

      Devotions For Godly Living

      Balance It!

      Spin

      Walking Straight

      Fight for the Faith

      Gonna Get Your Goat

      Let the Cat Out of the Bag

      Keep Knocking

      Toilet Paper to Go

      Honest Conversations

      Whatever! (You Do)

      Rejoice!

      Sustained!

      What’s in the Bag?

      The Good Samaritan

      Big Choices

      Don’t Quit

      Do You Hear What I Hear?

      Be Bold Tag

      Imitators

      God Provides

      God Protects

      Be Alert

      Anger

      Teased

      What You Expected?

      Christmas Devotions

      Taste It

      The Squeeze

      Fruitcaked

      Gift Wrapped

      Eat the Treat

      Ice Cube Melt

      Nothing Can Separate

      Snowless Snowballs

      Great Change

      Devotions for a Snowy Day

      Make a Snow Angel

      Make a Snowman

      Follow in the Footprints

      Dirty Snow

      Almost Gone

      Appendix

      A Guide for Sharing Bedtime Stories from Your Own Experiences

      Sample Bedtime Stories

      About the Authors

      This book is dedicated to our four sons: Jayden, Jaxon, Nathan and Titus, for whom many of these devotions were originally written. Be godly men and follow Jesus everyday. Everything you've ever wanted in life is found in Him.

      Other Books by Kolby & Mary Beth King:

      Creative Bible Lessons for Children

      30 Children's Worship Lessons

      52 Bible Lessons for Students

      Overflow Evangelism Training

      Character-Teaching Bedtime Stories for Kids

      52 Devotions for Youth Leaders

      How to Lead a Child to Christ

      Every Man's Inferno

      An Artificial Culture of God

      _______________________

      What a child believes by the time he is thirteen will dominate his belief system for the rest of his life and yet I fear that many of the children growing up in our churches are developing a worldview that perpetuates an artificial culture of God. By artificial I mean that many of our children are not getting a true picture of reality. The culture of God many of them are experiencing is produced and confined inside the walls of the church building. What is communicated to a child when he comes to church and hears the preacher tell the great truths of the Gospel and hears his teacher tell him that the Bible is his guide to life, and yet the Bible is never read and discussed at home? Does it not say that such things, meaning the Gospel and the Bible belong there—at the church—and that they do not affect the home environment or how life is lived outside the church? What does a child learn when he sees his parents pray only at the church-house but never witnesses their joined and individual communication with God on a daily basis? What volumes are imprinted on the minds of our children when they hear us Amen the preacher who stomps his foot against sin and yet they sit next to us in our living rooms as we watch and laugh at the very things we opposed from our pews? Does this not tell him that this culture of prayer and Bible reading and Christian living belong only at church? That such things are performed as a religious duty in a religious environment but have no relevance to everyday life? May God forbid that by our own actions of ignorance and neglect our children may grow up without the understanding that God permeates every moment, every breath, every thought, and every action of the believer. That there is not a move made, a bite taken, not even an insignificant second that is not under the direct influence and lordship of Jesus Christ. Perish the idea that we may leave our children nice houses, names of good repute, a fortune in inheritance, and even a moral lifestyle without an eternity of hope. Shall we, by our own neglect, condemn our children’s children to darkness and despair? By the heritage we pass, shall our great-grandchildren learn of our faith or shall they be left with the poor, fading rubbish of the worldly things and life we left behind? For I am convinced that of all the nobles matters to which an individual can devote himself—from the political office that leads a nation toward moral correctness, from the writer’s pad upon which years of knowledge and wisdom pour, to the laboratory where the cure for an incurable disease is revealed—nothing so compares to the great work of investing one’s life in raising godly children who fully devote themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

      Build a Fort

      _______________________

      YOU WILL NEED:

      -1 flashlight

      -Your Bible marked at Psalm 56:3 and Psalm 18:1-2

      GET STARTED

      Have your family members ransack the house to get pillows, blankets, chairs, and whatever else they can find to build a fort. Take your time making it and let your kids be creative with it. (For example, they might want to make a tunnel entrance.) Build it big enough for everyone to fit inside.

      From inside the fort use your flashlight to read Psalm 56:3.

      ASK—What is something you’re scared of?

      SHARE—Share something you were scared of when you were a child.

      ASK—What should we do when we’re scared? (Trust God.)

      ASK—Why can we trust God? (He’s faithful. He’ll never let you down. He’ll always keep His Word, etc.)

      Read Psalm 18:1-2 from your Bible.

      ASK—How is God like a fort (fortress, stronghold) for you? (In old days people went inside a fortress to be safe. Its walls protected them from harm. God is a shield for those who follow Him and like a fort, you are safe in Him.)

      ASK—Does this mean that bad things will never happen to someone who is living for Jesus? Why or why not? (Bad things still happen to good people, but there’s nothing so bad that God can’t turn it to your good.)

      If they want a further answer, explain that sometimes we do wrong things and these bad choices bring bad things into our lives. But sometimes we do everything right and someone else does something wrong and we get

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