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Read Luke 16:19-31 with your family. Some stories are hard to understand, but not this one. When Jesus told stories he often exaggerated the setting and people to make it entertaining before he showed them the point. In this one Jesus makes the rich…
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Read Luke 16:1-13 with your family. Sometimes stories we read in the Bible can be really confusing. This is the first clue that something was happening in the days of Jesus and the writers of the Bible that we do not understand in our…
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Read Luke 15:1-10 with your family. We have had a lot of hard and heavy things to talk about in the stories these past few weeks. This week, however, we have a nicer story. Something that reminds us how much God loves us. This…
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Read Luke 14:25-33 with your family. We spend a lot of time talking about God’s call to help people who need our help and what we can do to help them. But we do not spend as much time talking about our plan for…
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Read Luke 14:1, 7-14 with your family. Have you ever been to a wedding? Lots of times kids and teenager are never invited, but sometimes they are. When you get to the reception it is usually a big hall, and almost every table has…
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Read Luke 13:10-17 with your family. Less than one hundred years ago, people were still treating Sunday as a day when nothing except attending church and reading the Bible was supposed to happen. Children were expected to be quiet and not play outside. There…
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Read Luke 12:49-56 with your family. One of the things we teach children is to be nice like Jesus was nice. But anyone who has been bullied or ignored can tell you sometimes being nice is not always the best answer. The lesson today…
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Read Luke 12:32-40 with your family. Sometimes when we read stories in the Bible, we can easily pictures ourselves being there. As fun as that is, it is easy to let our imagination build a whole picture and we miss what Jesus was trying…
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Read Luke 12:13-21 with your family. What does greed look like? Often with children we show that greed is keeping all the cookies or not sharing them equally. But what does it look like in the world? Greed looks like some people and countries…
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Read Luke 11:1-13 with your family. Prayer is something that is supposed to be a regular part of our faith life, but it scares a lot of people. How do I do it? Does it matter? What if I ask for the wrong thing?…
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