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   God Cares About Stuffed Animals? How do you teach your children that God answers prayer? It's simple, right? You challenge them to pray about their needs and concerns.  Then it happens. Your son loses his beloved "Charlie" dog. So he prays for it to be found and returned. We think it was left at school. All weekend we wait... Monday morning... boy's "best friend" is not there. The house, yard, and everywhere else has been searched. The dog appears to be lost for good. Then comes a distant memory... lunch at Chick-fil-A middle of last week... would they save a well-loved stuffed animal for a week, even if it was left there? Dad calls, turns out, there is a brown dog that for "some reason" they decided to hang on to. "It just seemed loved."
It wasn't until I showed up at school with Luke, dog in arm, that I learned from Luke's tearful teacher that he said just the day before the dog was found, "I'm thankful for God because I prayed and He is going to return my dog to me." I felt relieved that God had answered his prayer. Why? Because I doubt? Is my faith weaker than that of my son? While my prayers were hopeful, his were matter-of-fact. If God cares about stuffed dogs and the simple prayer of a five-year-old for something as "unimportant" as a brown stuffed dog, what am I hesitant to ask for? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! - Matthew 7:11
Because Jesus Loves Children,
Karl D. Bastian - a.k.a. "The Kidologist"
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 Noduh, the Wise One, introduces the discipline of thanksgiving to children. The world can be greedy - kids will be challenged to develop an attitude of gratitude.
Back by popular demand, this "Kidology Classic" has been pulled from the archives and remastered in high resolution.
Filmed "live on location" at Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin, this Thanksgiving video is part of an 11-Part Series of 5-minute high-resolution videos that challenges kids in the areas of fasting, simplicity, solitude, thanksgiving, worship, and more.
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"How do you create ownership in programming? How do create an environment that is conducive to ownership? How do you deal with saboteurs that seek and destroy a good plan? These are significant questions when it comes to developing new programs in children's ministry."
- Barney Kinard on taking ownership of your ministry
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