Salty potato chips, salty popcorn, and salty pretzels… Apart from the salt, what do they all have in common? Did you think of getting thirsty when you eat them? Enjoy eating a large bag of one of these salty foods, then ask your children if they are thirsty. Read Matthew 5:13-16 with them. God wants us, as Christians, to be salty so that others will thirst for God as they see our behavior. Sometimes salt is used for healing. Have you or
Are our children (grandchildren) getting it when it comes to salvation, love for Christ Jesus, and love for his Word? Who is teaching them? Are we team-teachers? Do we spend time with our children/grandchildren talking about their faith, or do we leave all of that up to their Sunday school teacher or youth leader? Timothy’s mother’s name was Lois and his grandmother was Eunice. Their names are found in 2 Timothy 1:5, and they serve as eternal examples for us
At the time I set up the Honeycomb Adventures Press blog, I combined several blogs into one and created subject headings for them. His Whisperings is one of the blogs that I combined into this blog. I love to write about the Bible, but when I moved it into Honeycomb Adventures, I felt my posts had to always tie in with writing for children. That seems confining to me, so new posts of this type had almost disappeared. So I have
I recently started a new blog called Bible Bites 4 Teens. My heart has been burdened for the teens in my small town for some time. Our churches are small and their teen youth programs, with only a couple of great exceptions, are generally small and limited to non-existent. I would love to start up a multi-denominational youth group to benefit all of the churches, but the odds seem against me considering my age. I’m still praying about that. But
Wise Men Find Jesus The wise men rejoiced to see the star And followed it again Right to the place where Jesus stayed, A house in Bethlehem. They bowed down and worshiped him And opened treasure chests Of gold and frankincense and myrrh – The first Christmas gifts. Read this account for yourself in Matthew 2:9-12 When the wise men left Jerusalem to go to Bethlehem they were overjoyed to see the star reappear. This time the star led them to the very house where they found
