Bøger af Karen Whiting

Packed with stories of contemporary families, hands-on activities that help children understand basic principles of prayer, and discussions that encourage you to dig into what happens when we pray.Imagine what would happen if Christian families really took time to pray together and did it with knowledge of how to pray. Yours can be one of those families! Develop your family's prayer life the easy way. These 52 weekly devotions will equip your family to pray together as you explore various aspects of prayer. The ideas are practical and easy for busy families to use, choosing what best fits their schedule. Contemporary stories based on true stories show how families respond to tragedy, rejoice with God, and persist in prayer during hard times.Use 52 Week Devotions for Family Prayer before bedtime. Around the dinner table. Wherever and whenever you choose to have your family devotional time, 52 Weekly Devotions for Family Prayer fits perfectly into your on-the-go schedule and lifestyle. Throughout the book you'll read what happens when Bible characters pray, praise, and live their faith: Nehemiah leaned on God to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem while helping the people trust God against enemy threatsHannah wept before God and her prayer was heardJesus shared what's most important in prayerElijah heard God whisperKey Features: Flexible and Easy-to-Use. Spend anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour. At bedtime or at the dinner table, start any time, anywhere! Offers clear instructions and a simple format.Short and Meaningful. Enjoy having 2-4 minute devotions that are engaging, relatable, and meaningful. Great for on-the-go families!Bible-based. 2-4 minute Scripture reading, with "going deeper" options.Hands-On Activities. Help your family connect to God and each other with 150 optional activities that will help build firm faith foundations with fun family interaction.Age-Appropriate. The questions and activities range from easy (preschool) to more thoughtful (middle school). So, you can ask each child a different question at their level.Start (or Restart) Any Time. No need to wait for the new year to start building your family's faith! The holidays and seasons (Easter, Christmas, summer, back-to-school, etc.) are clearly marked and easy to find!Choose Your Frequency. Some weeks are busier than others, and the book adapts to your schedule! Start your week off right with a once-a-week routine, or spread the activities throughout the week between homework breaks or before/after meals.Decide Your Devotional Length. Last minute meetings at work or maybe the soccer game went into a tie breaker? Kids home early from school? Experience the flexibility of knowing that each devotional can be as short as 5 minutes or as long as an hour; add as many activities or crafts to each week as you'd like! The "More Time?" option extends each lesson with additional scriptures and reflections.Build a Scrapbook/Prayer Journal. Enjoy getting a book of memories to flip through as you continue your family's journey with God each week! From favorite verses, your family tree, prayer requests, and photos you'll cherish forever, each devotion includes tips for adding to your growing scrapbook/prayer journal.Include Traveling Family Members or Those Abroad. Great for military families or families with frequent travelers, the book offers practical solutions and tips to continue your devotions to include everyone, no matter how near or far!

What keeps a smile on your face, a song in your heart, and a spring in your step? JOY! Joy is a gift from God, a fruit of the Holy Spirit, that comes from focusing on what God has done and will do, rather than our circumstances. But how can a person discover and hold on to lasting, abiding, and true joy? Once joy overflows in our hearts, we share that abundance and become joy givers. This warm and winsome devotional will inspire, enrich, and encourage your journey of joy.

Intentional self-care is important in nurturing a mother's heart, so the weeks in this study progress from self-care to outward nurturing. Starting with the felt needs of moms, helps women choose to move toward the outward focus of nurturing her family members and reaching out to the community. The first weeks focus on the need for rest and balance plus meals in the home. The following weeks move toward how to make wise financial choices, meet family needs, and create a welcoming atmosphere of a loving home. The last week focuses outward to meeting the needs of others in the community. Lessons include light-hearted anecdotes from real life and relevant Bible passages with questions to examine how Bible moms coped with stress and chaos and still embraced joy. Scriptures meet women where they are at in life, in chaos, and their anxiety about their mothering skills, to move toward gaining wisdom from God and filling their hearts with God's love and peace that helps them create harmony in the home and find joy through their relationships. Each week coordinates with devotional stories in Growing a Mother's Heart Devotional.

Thirty weeks of Devotions on Peace to help you discover encouraging stories and tips from past, present, and future people who faced conflicts, struggles, and relational problems as they found peace or became peacemakers. You'll realize that peace is not an absence of conflict. It's an abiding trust in God combined with your choices and prayers to maintain peace in the midst of struggles and difficulties. Each week contains a prayer, a devotion focused on a biblical person, a devotion of a peacemaker from history, and three contemporary devotions. The end of each devotional offers you a Today's Peace Step challenge and encourages you to find and share peace. Our peace stories reflect everyday experiences, as well as some of the harder moments, people have faced. The book is divided into three sections inner peace, relational peace, and being a peacemaker.

Emulating the format of Raising a Modern-Day Princess, authors Doreen Hanna and Karen Whiting seek to help parents and grandparents cultivate strong relationships and encourage the spiritual formation in their daughters using examples, Bible teaching on the fruit of the Spirit, and a variety of creative activities that are based on Galatians 5:22-23, the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control).By implementing the ideas in this book, mothers (as well as fathers) will be equipped to understand and guide their daughters through each step of becoming His "e;princess."e; This will include perceiving a daughter's unique personality and gifts, refining her character through training and discipline, and modeling the attributes of a daughter of the King.This book is a follow-up to both Raising a Modern-Day Knight (by Robert Lewis) and Raising a Modern-Day Princess by Pam Farrel and Doreen Hanna. While the latter book is aimed at parents of girls ages 12 and up, this book focuses on building the Christian character of younger girls.

What do you get when you mix good stories that relate to real-life issues with science experiments, puzzles, jokes, riddles, and more?The One Year Devotions for Active Boys, a devotional you won't want to put down!We've combined fun elements with Scripture and life-application stories to make this a one-of-a-kind devotional that is never boring and keeps things moving for active boys.Find out how real people interacted with God while discovering solution to contemporary issues. But there's not just text to read--this devotion has things to do, make, discover, and share.Jump in now!

A daily devotional designed to help mothers apply God's wisdom every day.