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This resource is designed to allow your family to have time in God’s Word before your children attend church. Because God’s plan is for parents to be the primary spiritual nurturers of their children’s faith, we want YOU to be the one to introduce this part of The Big God Story to them. HomeFront Magazine: A Spiritual Parenting Resource This monthly magazine gives your family ideas for creating fun, spiritually forming times in your home—setting aside sacred space in the midst of your active, everyday lives. Visit www.HomeFrontMag.com to subscribe to the print edition or to have a digital copy sent directly to your inbox.
REMEMBER & CELEBRATE Feast of the Passover: A festival to REMEMBER and CELEBRATE God’s deliverance.
JUST FOR FUN Choose a night this week to serve a special dessert after dinner. While your family is gathered, ask each person the following question: How would you describe God? After each person has had a chance to answer, read 2 Samuel 22:1–4. Together, discuss how David described God.
DEVELOPMENTALLY SPEAKING Your child will more clearly remember the bits and pieces of The Big God Story that speak to her heart. Ask her to remember one part of the story she has heard at home and in church. Then, celebrate with her all that God is teaching her.
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DID YOU KNOW? • The Israelite people celebrated seven festivals: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Festival of First Fruits, Feast of Harvest, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths). • During the feasts, the Israelites ate, danced, sang, played instruments, prayed, and offered sacrifices to God. • The Feast of Passover was a day to remember the Israelites’ deliverance from the Egyptians, as well as to celebrate God—their deliverer.
TEACHABLE MOMENTS After reading Scripture, discuss the following together: • What are some ways God has protected our family? • Remind your child that God still delivers us today. Ask her if she knows how. Then explain that by sending Jesus to die for our sins, God gave us a way to spend eternity with Him. • Pray together, praising and thanking God for delivering us from our sin.
BLESSING For more information about blessing your child see the Blessing section in HomeFront: A Spiritual Parenting Resource. A blessing to pray over your child: (Child’s name), God loves you. May you always remember the many ways God is with you. May you celebrate the ways He protects you and provides for you.