There are five ways family Bible reading will change you. Check out some surprising benefits of reading the Bible with your kids.
Family Bible Reading
Reading the Bible with your family each day doesn’t have to be terribly time consuming or hard, but it will probably require at least 15 minutes a day of your time, and you may need to create a new habit.
I talk about how to make family Bible reading a part of your daily routine in Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible. You’ll find some great strategies and tactics in the book, too, that will help you read the Bible with your kids effectively.
Don’t worry, though! There are some fairly significant rewards that family Bible reading will bring to your life–and to the lives of your children.
5 Ways Family Bible Reading Will Change You
Check out this quick video, and I’ll explain 5 ways family Bible reading will change you! (Note: This video was created in 2022.)
(Find more videos on teaching the Bible to your kids over at my YouTube channel!)
Learn more about Help Your Kids Learn & Love the Bible and get your FREE Bible Study Resources here.
5 Benefits to Family Bible
Here’s a quick review of what I talked about in the video. Five ways family Bible reading will change you:
1) You will grow closer to God.
As you read the Bible out loud together, and then discuss God’s Word, he will work in your heart.
Psalm 73:28, ESV, says: “But for me it is good to be near God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.”
2) Your faith will deepen.
You will experience God’s hand working in the lives of your children. Daily family Bible study gives you the opportunity to see how God is working in the hearts of your children.
2 Thessalonians 1:3, ESV, says: “We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.“
3) You will bond more, and grow closer to, your kids.
As you read and discuss God’s Word, your family will grow together in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:11, ESV, says: “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.“
4) Your parenting will align more with God’s Word.
As you intentionally disciple your children in God’s Word, your view of your own role in their lives will become more godly. That 10-20 minutes a day will begin to change the rest of your parenting as well.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7, ESV, says: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.“
5) Your heart will conform to God’s will as you pray together through his Word.
As you pray together, you will hear your child’s heart, they will hear yours, and your family will be able to consider the heart of God as you pray through his Word together.
1 John 5:13-15, ESV, says: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
God’s Word will change our hearts–and the hearts of our children.
Want to learn more? Check out my book, Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible.
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Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible
You want your kids to learn and love the Bible.
You want to teach the Bible…
As parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right schools, we make them eat right and exercise, and we get them involved in extracurricular activities. We take our job as parents seriously.
But are we also putting our time and energy into
teaching them the Bible? Giving them the life-changing, soul-nourishing words of Scripture is not only doable, it’s an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is, studying God’s Word as a family doesn’t have to be difficult!
2 Timothy 2:15, ESV, says:
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Our job, as parents who love Jesus, is to help our kids become approved workers, unashamed and rightly handling the word of truth.
The good news? Teaching the Bible isn’t hard. Your family can learn the Bible together.
…and you can!
A Crash Course in Teaching the Bible to Your Kids
Danika Cooley’s book, Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible, will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the guidance you need to set up a family Bible study habit.
You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child’s relationship with the Lord through His Word.
Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible will equip you with everything you need to know to teach the Bible to your kids!
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