Don’t Panic: A Step by Step Approach to Teaching Kids About God

Apologetics, Apologetics for Parents, Christian Parents, Christianity, Christians, Shanda Fulbright, Teaching Kids about God, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Shanda Fulbright  It never fails. When churched kids hit a certain age, I get panicked messages from parents. They usually start with, “We’re a Christian family, but my son doesn’t want to go to church anymore. He doesn’t believe in God.” Or, “I assumed my daughter was pro-life but she just told me women have the right to choose. How can this be when we are a pro-life family?” These messages never come when the child is 8 or 9. I never hear about an 11 year old struggling to believe whether or not the Bible is true. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, I’m just saying this isn’t the age where parents start to panic. It’s usually around the time our kids are well into their teenage years…
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3 Practical Steps to Help Build Your Kids’ Immunity to Anti-Christian Ideas

Alisa Childers, Another Gospel, Anti-Christian Ideas, Apologetics, Apologetics for Parents, Christian Parents, Christianity, Culture
By Alisa Childers When my daughter Dyllan was a toddler, I exercised quite regularly at the YMCA. (And by “exercised,” I mean that I read a book on the stationary bike and pedaled as slowly as possible while I enjoyed an hour of free childcare. Not gonna lie.) One day when I picked her up from the kid’s room, the childcare worker pulled out the unopened granola bar I had put in Dyllan’s bag, handed it to me, and said, “We can’t give this to her because it contains peanuts. We don’t allow anything with peanuts into the childcare area.” I admit I was a bit surprised because it wasn’t something I had given much thought to. But I quickly learned that there was almost nothing parents feared more in…
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