Making Your Faith Fun
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As you're teaching your kids or grandkids about God, it's good sometimes to make it fun for them. John and Danny share fun ways to teach your kids about God, and provide encouragement to grandparents who feel like their teenager is pulling away from them during the teen years. Featuring Chrys Howard and Shellie Tomlinson.
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| 0:00.0 | Well I'm John Fuller along with my focus colleague Dr Danny Werta who heads up our |
| 0:06.7 | parenting department here Danny it can be dry as we have devotions and teach our children about the faith but |
| 0:14.0 | injecting an element of fun is critical if we want that next generation |
| 0:18.4 | to grab onto the truth that we so dearly hold. |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah you know I've done this well at times and I have failed along the way John and that that's just the truth with with |
| 0:28.9 | devotions you need to kind of learn what the style is going to be for your kids and sometimes it'll just land flat and know that. |
| 0:37.0 | I had some experiment books and I tried some experiments that just didn't go quite how they were supposed to go and I remember one time my kids were |
| 0:45.7 | completely confused at the end of the whole thing so it's not always going to go well |
| 0:50.2 | but the times that it has gone well one of them that stands out my mind we went out in the garden and I was talking about God's creation I was |
| 0:57.2 | grabbing the all the different leaves and things you can smell and I was go man look at the |
| 1:01.7 | creativity of God that we walked by all the time. |
| 1:05.2 | We went with our microscopes, look at the flowers, and then with the smelly ones, I said, I wonder |
| 1:10.0 | what aroma we bring into the rooms we go into. Do we bring a good one? |
| 1:15.6 | Like the lavender, I think we grabbed all kinds of different smells and he smelled. |
| 1:19.4 | I said, ah that smells really good. Isn't that amazing that God put perfume and these smells and flowers? |
| 1:26.0 | We were just amazed together and we were exploring and the kids that just opened up a whole world of them. |
| 1:31.0 | I told them certain ones you just don't taste. You don't grab everything you need it, right? And that one they've remembered that all along where it was very |
| 1:39.2 | experiential to them. They got to experience God's creation. And another one that stands out, John, real quick, was one |
| 1:46.5 | morning where I said, hey, kids, you guys are going to teach us. You guys are the Sunday |
| 1:50.6 | school teachers this morning. It was a snow day, the church was |
| 1:54.6 | closed up and I said, hey, why don't you grab your children's book? Pick out a |
| 1:58.9 | story, you guys are going to act it out, teach us. I'd love to see you guys teach and there's a certain time in a child's |
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