Teaching Kids Spiritual Disciplines: Reading the Bible and Prayer

About this episode

The episode discusses how to teach kids spiritual disciplines like Bible reading and prayer without making it feel like a chore or performance.

Send us Fan Mail If your family’s Bible time feels like a chore chart and prayer feels like a performance, you’re not alone and you’re not stuck. We sit down with our Boys Ranch ministry team to get brutally practical about spiritual disciplines for kids and how to teach them without turning faith into pressure.We discuss: spiritual disciplines are practices that shape a real relationship with God, not hoops that earn love. We walk through what age-appropriate family Bible reading can look l...

People in this episode

Host: Cal Farley

Topics covered

• spiritual disciplines
• Bible reading
• prayer
• family
• kids
• faith

Keywords

• spiritual disciplines
• Bible
• prayer
• kids
• family
• faith
• relationship with God

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boys Ranch

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