TakeItHome August
idea: Family Night.
Choose a night in August when you can have a family night. If your
family is small, you might like to invite another family to join you. Use one
of the ideas found here: http://www.strongfamilies.com/Faith@HomeIdeasfromDrTrent.pdfThursday, August 9, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
New Links
I have added two new links on the side bar (over there ---->).
Imparting Faith is a website by Joel Singleton who is passionate about seeing church and family working together to pass faith onto our children. You might like to explore it! I suggest you read the section under Family Tools - Getting Started and watch one or two of the videos.
Faith @ Home Network has many resources that you might like to explore.
Imparting Faith is a website by Joel Singleton who is passionate about seeing church and family working together to pass faith onto our children. You might like to explore it! I suggest you read the section under Family Tools - Getting Started and watch one or two of the videos.
Faith @ Home Network has many resources that you might like to explore.
Shema - Hear and Obey
I recently started reading a book called "Walking in the dust of Rabbi Jesus" by Lois Tverberg. (if you want a copy, I have an extra). In this book Lois talks about some of the Jewish traditions and the culture Jesus would have been brought up in. Lois's purpose is to give us a better idea of the meaning of some of Jesus's teachings, in the context they were given.
The second chapter of the book is about the Shema, a set of three scriptures Jews spoke out loud both morning and night. The first of these scriptures happens to be the one many faith at home advocates quote - Deuteronomy 6:4-9. (The other two are Deuteronomy 13:11-21 and Numbers 15:37-41). The first line in the Shema is "Hear (Shema), O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one".
The word Shema has different meanings, and is usually translated as 'hear' in the English Bible translations. However, the meaning is deeper than just hearing, it really means 'hear and obey'. Often, the verb in ancient languages, like Hebrew, meant not only the action (hear), but also the result (what I hear I will obey). "To hear" meant "I hear what you are saying and I will obey". (Wouldn't it be great if our children "heard" us more often!).
So as I read the words of Jesus and come to places in scripture, like the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, where, after Jesus has given the parable, he says "Whoever has ears, let them hear", I can add "and obey". Will I obey? Will I become fertile soil where, when God sows the seed into my mind I will let it travel to my heart and change what I do?
Want to know more about the Shema? Try here.
The second chapter of the book is about the Shema, a set of three scriptures Jews spoke out loud both morning and night. The first of these scriptures happens to be the one many faith at home advocates quote - Deuteronomy 6:4-9. (The other two are Deuteronomy 13:11-21 and Numbers 15:37-41). The first line in the Shema is "Hear (Shema), O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one".
The word Shema has different meanings, and is usually translated as 'hear' in the English Bible translations. However, the meaning is deeper than just hearing, it really means 'hear and obey'. Often, the verb in ancient languages, like Hebrew, meant not only the action (hear), but also the result (what I hear I will obey). "To hear" meant "I hear what you are saying and I will obey". (Wouldn't it be great if our children "heard" us more often!).
So as I read the words of Jesus and come to places in scripture, like the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, where, after Jesus has given the parable, he says "Whoever has ears, let them hear", I can add "and obey". Will I obey? Will I become fertile soil where, when God sows the seed into my mind I will let it travel to my heart and change what I do?
Want to know more about the Shema? Try here.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Five Family Values - (from: Parenting Beyond Your Capacity, Reggie Joiner and Carey Nieuwhof, 2010)
Taken from Deuteronomy 6:4-12 Moses speaking to the Israelites just after he has given them the ten commandments:
Imagine the End - 100 years from now, the important thing will be your relationship with Christ.
Fight for the Heart - fight for your children, not with your children.
Make it Personal - keep your faith real before your children.
Create a Rhythm - build up patterns and traditions that set the tone of your family, when you get up, when you eat meals, when you drive, when you go to bed.
Widen the Circle - develop friendships between your children and trusted adults before your children need them so they are there when they need them.
Taken from Deuteronomy 6:4-12 Moses speaking to the Israelites just after he has given them the ten commandments:
'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.'
Imagine the End - 100 years from now, the important thing will be your relationship with Christ.
Fight for the Heart - fight for your children, not with your children.
Make it Personal - keep your faith real before your children.
Create a Rhythm - build up patterns and traditions that set the tone of your family, when you get up, when you eat meals, when you drive, when you go to bed.
Widen the Circle - develop friendships between your children and trusted adults before your children need them so they are there when they need them.
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