Welcome to Famous at Home in five minutes.

Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.

This week, sit down together as husband and wife or with your children and read through a book of the Bible and just read through it.

From chapter one of the chapters, one of the books that we've been reading lately is the book of Ephesians.

Which is great because there's only six chapters.

Only six chapters.

But the better part of that is that when you take out the chapters and you take out the sections, and you don't even read the section titles,

you have a letter that is written from beginning to end, that flows from beginning to end,

and you understand it in its context better than when you're just taking specific chapters

and reading them individually. So this week with your family, I don't know how much you do read the Bible with your family,

but just practice one day this week.

Read a chapter of the Bible as a family.

And I would encourage you if you have small kids,

even to older kids,

just have them grab a paper, some markers,

or pencil crayons, and just have them draw.

Draw what they're hearing, draw what they're seeing, draw what they are interpreting God is saying in this. Because it's

amazing to me when we ask children how they hear and see God, how often they teach us,

and how often their pure and innocent faith actually pushes us into higher faith.

And so, and push them to hear God for themselves because so often they're corrected.

And so often we harp on, you know, theology or we're telling them a story and, you know, getting the facts right.

Whereas if they can learn to engage the Bible for themselves,

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