Are you looking for simple ideas to help your busy family keep Christ in Christmas this holiday season? Consider these Advent resources for busy families… The holiday season can be a season of chaos, especially for busy families. As such, I have found it incredibly important to be intentional about slowing down and remembering the…
In all of the chaos and commercialism surrounding the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that Christmas is actually supposed to be a celebration of Jesus’ birth. We host Christmas parties, decorate our homes, buy gifts for friends and family, and generally get caught up in the chaos of the season. Unless we’re intentional, we often…
Many families have begun to give their children fewer, but more meaningful, Christmas gifts using the “Three Gifts of the Magi” formula. One of my favorite parts of this formula for giving Christmas presents is the gift of frankincense – spiritual growth gifts for kids. The Three Gifts of the Magi Explained The gift of…
Last Christmas, I’d had it. I was tired of the “me” mentality that seeped into the Christmas season. It was time to find a way to get my kids focused on the reason we celebrate the holiday – a season of blessing. Each day of Advent, as we counted down to Christmas Day, we opened…
Keeping Christ in Christmas is more than telling our kids the story of the manager, the shepherds, and the wise men over and over again. That’s a part of it, but we want them to have a bigger picture understanding of why Christmas matters. We want them to have a biblical understanding of Christmas that…
If you follow my Instagram or Facebook feeds, you probably saw these pictures of The Christmas Angel last month. Ever since The Christmas Angel arrived at our house, the kids have been growing more and more excited to find out what she’s all about. They love to get her out of her tin and “pet…