Be Flexible with Family Devotions
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Are family devotions a struggle? Do your kids have a hard time paying attention? Jim Daly chats with Pastor Jonathan Evans and his wife Kanika on how they've learned to be flexible with family devotions and young kids through rides to school and dinner conversations. Also, John and Danny will offer you some encouragement if you aren't able to have dinner together often as a family.
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| 0:32.7 | When my kids were little, it was a joy to be able to sit down and read some basic Bible stories. We had a number of animated Bible story books, and I loved trying to bring those stories alive to my children and do different voices. It was just a priceless time. Now that they're 20s, 30s, they don't want me to do that so much. What happened? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, |
| 0:55.3 | who leads our parenting team, and we're going to talk about family devotions and how you can |
| 1:00.8 | connect with your kids better. We're going to listen now to a conversation from Focus on the Family with |
| 1:06.3 | Jim Daly. Jim spoke with Pastor Jonathan Evans and his wife Kanika, and the conversation was recorded |
| 1:12.6 | a few years back, and at the time, the Evans' head for children. Let's listen in. Okay, we are here |
| 1:18.8 | today to talk about devotions, family devotions. This is one of the areas that Gene and I can |
| 1:23.7 | struggle a bit. I mean, we are good at times and other times we're falling back. And I really |
| 1:30.5 | want to know between the two of you right from the start. How do you handle this as mom and dad |
| 1:37.6 | and husband and wife? In our situation, Gene is far more the school teacher. She wants to sit down, have a very formal devotion. I'm kind of |
| 1:48.0 | in the mood to do it in the moment. If we're walking down the road, I'm driving them to school. |
| 1:53.1 | We'll read a proverb together. But I want to be doing something. Has that worked out for you guys? |
| 1:58.3 | Have you come to a formal agreement as parents? Well, I think it's |
| 2:02.3 | worked out well. The reason is because I'm the one that gets to take them to school every day. |
| 2:08.1 | So it's my job to get them up, get them ready for school. She stays up late, getting all the |
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