Jim John, one of the things that were so powerful about leading family devotions is that God kept changing me.

And I think over the course of a year, year and a half, I really believed I was in a different spot than I would have been if I had been doing family devotions.

Now, I was trying to benefit the kids, right?

Here's this huge benefit to me because I didn't lose my kids' respect by confessing,

by admitting that we do it wrong.

We don't lose their respect.

We're making those adjustments.

And I was able to speak into their life all through their teenage years.

That's Tim Shoemaker, and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

And we're going to look today at how parents can find creative ways to share your faith with your children.

I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, I remember the devotions with the boys.

And really, Gene and I, you you know we had a different picture of

what it could look like and she wanted it pretty formal um but i'm thinking you know these are two

boys who are wiggling all the time and they're not going to sit and listen to music for five minutes

and then a lesson and then pray together they did sometimes and i don't mean to belittle that because there's a place for that kind of structure.

But what I noticed really fast is that the boys wanted action.

They wanted to see the Bible in action.

And sometimes that could be really difficult to do family devotions where you're thinking of all of this, right?

But today we're going to talk with an author who has created some great devotions in his book,

The Very Best Hands On Kind of Dangerous Family Devotions.

I got that out.

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