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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.

  • Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    How often do you think about your thoughts? Hmm, let me think about that. Thoughts matter a great deal to God. The Bible says, “the word of God is living and active, . . . discerning the...

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  • Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    The day I was baptized was a cold day in December. It was five days before Christmas and nearly 17.75 years after my earthly entrance. My pastor helped me to keep the Fourth Commandment...

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  • Mothers and Others: Covering Children with Prayer

    Mothers and Others: Covering Children with Prayer

    I stood aside as Denny, a retired police officer, slowly worked through the church narthex. The tall man bent to be at eye level with each child in the church narthex between Sunday...

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  • Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Ten years ago, my mom and I were tying pieces of silky purple ribbon to the top of dozens of lovely wedding bulletins. It was a few weeks before my wedding, and she and I had had so much...

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  • Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    It’s a tough season for my family. It’s not the toughest it could be. We’re all (mostly) healthy. We’re not looking to move or leave our jobs anytime soon. We’ve settled into a rhythm of...

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  • Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Everything will be okay.” “Don’t worry. Be happy.” “Hakuna matata.” These feel-good yet frothy phrases center around an issue that is near and dear to my sinful heart: worry.

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  • Go-To Resources for Parenting Discipleship

    Go-To Resources for Parenting Discipleship

    Parenting isn’t easy work—we all know that. But what a lot of parents think is even harder is parenting discipleship. God has entrusted parents to be the main faith shapers in their...

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  • What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “I don’t want to pray right now,” my two-and-a-half-year-old says. I know that these words don’t actually mean she doesn’t want the comfort of prayer, but she doesn’t want to go to bed....

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  • Take Heart During Times of Anxiety

    Take Heart During Times of Anxiety

    When we have no idea what’s going on or what’s going to happen next, we can find our solid ground in the one who is the author of all things, who has a plan for our lives and well-being,...

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  • Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    My three-year-old and one-year-old had just thrown F5-level meltdowns for the first fifteen minutes of church (some of it in the pew, some of it in the nursery, some outside … you get the...

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  • Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We long for deep community. We strive for healthy and helpful relationships with family members, church people, and neighbors. But if we’re honest with ourselves, especially as parents,...

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  • Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We are now entering the one time of year in our world that is focused on being generous, giving back, and serving our neighbors. Bell ringers at stores, social media posts of friends...

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  • Ideas for Encouraging Parental Involvement in Youth Ministry

    Ideas for Encouraging Parental Involvement in Youth Ministry

    Healthy youth ministry extends past the congregation and into teens’ homes. When we considered what young people need, Scripture, research, and youth leaders all pointed to parents as...

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  • Go-To Lutheran Tools for Family Faith Formation

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    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

    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

    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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