Parents
Bring your family closer in Christ with these helpful articles and videos. Learn how to nurture your children's faith and develop habits for being together in God's Word.
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Go-To Lutheran Tools for Family Faith Formation
Scripture guides us, teaches us about salvation, and communicates the kingdom of God to us. In daily family life, we ought to ever turn to the Word and to works that keep the Word as...
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Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
Psalm 119:15–16 states, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” When I read this verse, I cannot...
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Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your...
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Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
My wedding anniversary is coming up. Every year midsummer, I think about the vows we made and how we continue to live out those vows. And if I’m being honest, sometimes I think about how...
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Journey through Church History | CPH Podcast with Christa Petzold
In this episode of The Concordia Publishing House Podcast, Elizabeth Pittman is joined by Christa Petzold, author of the new curriculum Journey through Church History. Christa explores why we should s
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Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
We’ve all felt the struggle. When you’re sitting in an awkward waiting room, when your kid asks you the same question over and over, when you’re tired at the end of a long day—we struggle...
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Calling Out to the Father: June 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
“Daddy! Daaaaaaaaaaaa-deeee! Daaaaaaaa-daaaaa! Dada! DADA!” My two-year-old cries out in the middle of the night. We can hear her over our audio monitor getting more frantic. She is...
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Passing Down the Faith to the Next Generation
I’ve attended what seems like a lot of funerals over the past few years at my church. More and more of the names in funeral announcements are familiar, particularly as the generation...
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Struggles and Support: May 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
May isn’t just the month of Mother’s Day; it is also Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Before I became a mother, I thought that the conversation surrounding maternal mental health...
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Ordinary Callings: April 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
In college, I attended a Bible study hosted at a pastor’s home. One week, he said our homework was to make a list of our biggest questions about faith, and we’d discuss them and seek...
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God’s Design for Parents
God doesn’t make mistakes—His plan is perfect, His execution unparalleled. When the fallen nature of the world and all of humanity comes into play, however, the exquisiteness of His...
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Parenting Guilt, God’s Grace: March 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
It was a month or so after our second child was born, and my almost two-year-old decided he wanted to join the rest of the family and stop sleeping too. Fighting bedtime, skipping his...
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Patterns: February 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
I’ve never been a person who really relied on or noticed patterns in my life. I never struggled with feeling too scheduled or the opposite feeling of overwhelmed with no structure. That...
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The Perfect Parent: God the Father Looks Out for Us
The vocation of parent is the ultimate paradox. It is at once viscerally sweet, compelling, and satisfying—and then also just not. Not at all any of those things. In fact, parenting is...
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Change: January 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
“In 2024, I plan to . . .” Fill in the blank. Maybe you’re hoping to exercise more, eat healthier, start a new job, go on a big family trip, spend more time with your spouse, spend less...
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Jesus Bears Our Burdens: Everyday Faith Calendar December 2023
I never had any interest in watching the 1946 James Stewart Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, until college. Many adults and teens in my life had droned on about how boring they...
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Giving Thanks Biblically: November 2023 Everyday Faith Calendar
We say the word thanks a lot in a day. We thank our spouse for filling up our coffee, we end emails with the word thanks, and we thank people for holding the door for us. As parents, we...
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Giving Thanks Biblically: November 2023 Everyday Faith Calendar
We say the word thanks a lot in a day. We thank our spouse for filling up our coffee, we end emails with the word thanks, and we thank people for holding the door for us. As parents, we...
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Heroes: October 2023 Everyday Faith Calendar
I have no idea what or who my seventeen-month-old daughter will dress up as for our upcoming Halloween events. These days, it’s a big responsibility to make sure that your family costumes...
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An Inside Look of My Book About Church
A beginner-friendly children's book to learn the basic parts of the church service. It can also help parents, grandparents, and educators explain the sacraments and how to worship at church. https:/
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