Fun Ways To Teach Kids About Absolute Truth

Fun Ways To Teach Kids About Absolute Truth - Parenting Like Hannah

If you read the post on teaching kids about absolute truth, you probably realize how important it is. Other than constantly discussing it, what are some things you can do with your kids to help them understand that not everything in life is a gray area? How can you help them understand God’s truth is absolute and for any time and any place?

Absolute truth is an abstract concept and young children will have a hard time understanding it. You can do things with even the youngest of children though to start making them think and discuss the idea that there is a truth that is not up to a person’s opinion. There are probably a lot of things you can do, but here are a few to get you started:

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Teaching Kids About Absolute Truth

Teaching Kids About Absolute Truth - Parenting Like HannahDid you know that almost everyone in your child’s world – even many Christians – will try to convince your child almost everything in life is a gray area? With the possible exception of murder and a few other crimes, most people today believe in relativism. Everything in life is relative and truth is whatever the person decides is truth.

The result is, very few people believe there is such a thing as absolute truth. Of, they may believe in the absolutes of math and probably accept everything their science teacher teaches them as absolute truth. Anything the Bible teaches though is presented as highly suspect. After all, the reasoning goes, most of it was written thousands of years ago by people who are not as educated and sophisticated as we are.

Of course, what the writers attribute to God was merely a collection of myths and popular wisdom of the day. They will even point to other societies that have similar stories of a flood or taught a few similar laws as examples that it was merely the culture of the time, not God’s rules and principles that are true for all times and places.

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Fun Ways To Teach Kids To Notice God’s Little Opportunities

Fun Ways To Teach Kids To Notice God's Little Opportunities - Parenting Like HannahIn God, Kids and the Little Things, I shared how God will give your kids lots of opportunities to serve others almost every day. Often your kids (like the rest of us) will not even notice these things. They will go through their day oblivious to the chances God is giving them to serve Him, often by serving others and sharing their faith. They will miss out on some amazing God adventures because they didn’t even see His invitation to join Him. They will miss opportunities to grow their faith by watching how God works in their world.

If you want to help your kids not miss the opportunities God gives them, you will have to get them out of the natural human tendency to be a bit self-absorbed. We all have a tendency to get so wrapped up in what we are doing that we can cause mayhem in our wake and not even realize it. Forget about noticing those somewhat subtle invitations to join God in touching the lives around us. Sometimes we even miss the huge blinking neon billboards from people God wants us to serve.

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God, Kids and the Little Things

God, Kids and the Little Things - Parenting Like HannahIt happened to me again this weekend. In fact, it has happened many times over the years in churches all over the country. As I struggle to take load after huge load of awkward bundles into a church building, I walk past the same people over and over and over.

Maybe one in a thousand offers to help immediately. One out of a hundred offers to help after I pass by three or four times. Most will help if specifically asked, but even then many will help with obvious reluctance. The irony is I would imagine most of those same people just gave a good deal of money to God. They probably nodded in agreement during the lessons. They may have even volunteered to do some odious task for the Church.

Yet when God gave them a tiny opportunity to serve someone, they didn’t even see it. They didn’t mean to be rude or inconsiderate, they were just totally oblivious. It probably doesn’t even sound like a big deal to you. In fact, you are probably wondering what this even has to do with parenting your kids.

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Teaching Kids To Be Honest to Themselves

Teaching Kids To Be Honest to Themselves - Parenting Like Hannah“I can eat this entire box of Girl Scout cookies because I walked a mile today.” “I really wasn’t that mean to her.” “It’s not really a lie because…” “God would want me to disobey this command of His if He knew what was really happening.” “I’m not really drunk. I just had several glasses (I lost count) of wine with dinner.” “I wasn’t gossiping. I was just sharing a prayer request.”

When our kids are little, most of us will spend quite a bit of time teaching them to be honest. We will explain, hand out consequences and tell them what a mess they create when they lie. That is so very important. God makes it very clear He hates lies and if we are trying to raise children to be productive Christians, they must be honest.

I realized something very recently though. We spend a lot of time teaching our kids to be honest to others, but how much time do we spend teaching them to be honest to themselves? Think about it for a minute. Satan may tempt us, but whose brain takes that temptation and adds to the original lie? Whose brain tells itself lies after a sin has been committed to convince us we don’t need to repent?

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