Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Take Ten!

Take ten minutes each day, five minutes in the morning and five minutes in the evening, to stretch your child's spiritual muscles. These ten minutes will help your child develop two spiritual disciplines--listening to and reciting Scripture!

Take five minutes in the morning reading the Bible to your children. As you do, they will grow to love God and His Word. Read the Bible five minutes each day!

Take five minutes in the evening reciting Bible verses. In a few minutes each day, your child will learn God's Word by heart. Review Bible verses five minutes each day!

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Value of Relationships

A relationship. It has more power than any nuclear bomb and more potential than any promising seed...What matters most in life is not the ladders we climb or what ownings we accumulate. What matters most is a relationship.

What steps are you taking to protect your "possessions"? What measure are you using to ensure that your relationships are stong and healthy? What are you doing to solidify the bridges between you and those in your world?

Many wealthy people have died paupers because they gave their lives to things and not to people. And many paupers have left this earth in contentment because they loved their neighbors.

--Max Lucado, On the Anvil (Tyndale, 1985)