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Why Are The Early Years of a Child’s Life So Crucial? 

The early years of a child’s life are crucial for a child’s overall development, including their spiritual education. While it may be challenging to directly measure the impact of early spiritual education on a child’s relationship with God, it is widely recognized that the experiences and environment provided during the preschool years play a significant […]

Helping Christian Kids Navigate Gender Identity.

About one year ago, the Holy Spirit began to speak to me to write a curriculum for kids’ church about gender identity. When I grew up, there was an understanding that all adults had. You didn’t talk to kids about some things, but the culture has changed. Today in many of our schools, teachers are […]

Don’t overlook this…

Kid’s Ministry can really be a balancing act.  Many times I spend more time doing things unrelated to teaching and preaching to kids than I like. When I feel this way is when I like to remind myself of who I minister to and why. “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the […]

Should We Talk To Kids About Hell?

How important is it that we preach the gospel to kids? “And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.  But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs […]

Can kids reach other for Christ?

I don’t want to just teach on evangelism: I want the kids in my class to be practicing evangelism. Many of our kids are great video-game evangelists. When they play a game that they like, they tell a friend. They use their influence to get their friends to purchase the game. My point is that […]

TEACHING KIDS HOW TO BE UNSELFISH

Human love can be selfish. It is normal for us to put ourselves first and to think about our own needs. This is why we need God’s love. God’s love or agape love is a supernatural love. It is not normal and does not act or react normally. When someone is mean to us by […]

Power-Packed Kids

by Billy Burns Here is a conclusion that I’ve derived in my 40+ years of ministry – our churches are not producing power-packed boys and girls. Why? The children in our churches are not being given an opportunity to know and have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Really? Really! I know that you are […]

What You Believe, Is What You Get

You Get What You Believe In 1 Samuel chapter three, we read the story of how God spoke to the child, Samuel. The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions. 2 One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down […]

Learning To Listen

It is important to teach our children how to listen to their conscience and obey God in the small things. I Timothy 4:1-2, “Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils: Speaking lies in hypocrisy: having the conscience […]

No Way! That’s Too Deep!

Have you ever told the Lord – No? I had been teaching children for about two years on things like salvation, baptism in the Holy Spirit and healing.  One morning, I asked the Lord what I should teach on next.  His response shocked me. I heard a still, small voice say, “Teach them about the gifts of the Holy Spirit.” I thought, “No, […]