Tag Archive - Love

February Kids Music Liturgy: what we did this past month for Valentine’s Day

March 3, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

When coming up with new liturgies for Kids’ Worship, we try to keep the subject matter centered on the Christian calendar and relevant to the children’s lives.  Most of the time we can accomplish both goals by using major holidays as a launching point. Building liturgies around holidays also gives us the opportunity to correct skewed worldly perspectives on biblical themes that are so prevalent in our increasingly post-Christian culture. We can take concepts the kids are familiar with and explain the truth about them, exposing the thoughts of the mind fixed on the flesh and teaching the perspective of the mind fixed on the Spirit.

With Valentine’s Day being a prominent holiday in the culture around us and in elementary schools, the month of February provides a great opportunity to talk to children about love. In this month’s liturgy we discuss God’s love in a general sense, His revelation of His love in the Bible, the sacrificial love of Jesus’ death for us, and our need for love toward God and other people. This month, really pour love on your kids as you help them understand just how big God’s love is for them.

Here’s February’s liturgy: Continue Reading…

Helping Children Love Those Who Are Different

January 21, 2010 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

John Piper’s latest sermon suggests “eight ways to help your children love those who are different from them.” Piper is primarily thinking here of racial harmony and disability differences, but this would apply to an even wider range of differences.

Go read or listen to or watch the sermon for the unpacking of each point, but here’s the outline:

1. Help the children believe in God’s sovereign wisdom and goodness in creating them with the body that they have.

2. Help the children believe in God’s sovereign wisdom and goodness in making other people with the body that they have.

3. Help the children believe that they and all other children and adults are made in God’s image.

4. Teach the children that God tells us to do to others as we would like others to do to us.

5. Teach the children and model for them that their own sin is uglier than anybody they think is physically unattractive.

6. Teach the children that God loves them in spite of the ugliness of their sin and that he proved this by sending his Son to die for our sins and give forgiveness to all who would trust him.

7. Teach the children that because Jesus died for them and rose again, he becomes for them an all-satisfying Friend and Treasure.

8. Teach the children to love others who are different from them, not in order to be accepted by God, but because they already are accepted by God because of Jesus.

via Justin Taylor.