Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E2: What Parents Don't Know About Teaching Faith
Release Date: 06/06/2024
Faith Is More Than You Think E1: Faith Has More Reach
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While faith is something people might often think about and even talk about, most people still don’t know the full meaning of it and the tremendous and dramatic benefits of using it. In this episode, we discuss an expansive definition of faith—faith in God, faith in yourself, and faith in your culture—and how faith is one of the first answers to the challenges people are facing today. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E13: Teaching About Faith Helps You Be Confident When You Are Uncertain About What Is Best For Your Children
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There is a lot of uncertainty when it comes to knowing what is best for children. This is not much of a challenge when you’re only facing minor situations, but when there are big consequences, knowing what is best matters a lot. Teaching your children to have faith will help you identify what is best in these uncertain times because faith is involved in virtually every possible solution. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E12: Teaching About Faith Prepares You For The Unexpected
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Every parent faces times when children bring unexpected experiences home. Teaching about faith successfully will help you prepare for those times so you don't overreact or focus on the wrong things. Besides, teaching children to have faith in themselves, in God, and in their culture prepares them and gives them strength to manage their own challenges. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E11: Teach Faith During Life's Important Moments, and Bring Inspiration to You and Your Children
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When parents are able to use the significant moments of their children's lives to teach faith, they bring together a child's experience, the interpretation of it, and knowledge of faith. Putting this together will be helped by the Lord who will send inspiration. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E10: Learn More About Faith So You Are More Successful At Teaching It
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When you decide to learn more about faith, it may amaze you to learn how much more there is to learn. And when you learn more, you will be able to see more different and interesting ways to teach it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E9: How To Help Children Grow Faith
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Growing children's faith usually requires much more than talking. Children will need to be receptive to what they hear, and parents can adjust their methods of teaching as needed. In this episode, you can see the need for thinking both about what you already do and how to create an environment where your children are more likely to receive and believe what you teach. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E8: What Faith Accomplishes
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Learning more about faith can lead to the discovery of its amazing qualities we don't often think about. In this episode, learn some of what faith accomplishes in our lives and how it originates. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E7: Take A Deep Dive Into Faith, And See How Powerful It Has Always Been
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Those who think you might want to do more with teaching your children about faith might discover that it offers more than most of us know, and then we realize it has always been so and we have neglected to use its great blessings for our families. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E6: What Happens to Parents When They Decide to Become a Faith-Emergent Family
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Deciding to give more emphasis to teaching children to be faithful appears to lead to five very positive conditions. In this episode, learn what many parents discovered about the power of doing more to teach children to develop faith and keep it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E5: Become a Faith-Emergent Family
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Even in the busyness of life, parents can make changes in their families when their children are involved. If you decide to become a faith-emergent family, this means you give more emphasis to teaching faith and organizing your family to ensure that your children will trust you and learn how to exercise freedom—not as an option but as an essential part of the recipe. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
info_outlineWhen Dr. Scoresby began to ask what parents do or could do to teach their children about faith, he said he got a lot of strange looks and then was told by many parents that they read scriptures, pray, and attend church with their children. This is a great answer, but then he asked them if they had specific ideas about how parents could teach it. When met with uncertainty, he discovered that there are some things parents would like to know, so if you listen to this episode, you will begin to get an idea about what we as parents may not know and should know about teaching faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.