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Do we have to have Family Devotions?

Family Devotions

Often, as new parents we look at family devotions as a checklist: 1. Read a chapter of the Bible 2. Discuss the chapter 3. Pray Repeat Daily   For Crista and I, this way of doing family devotions did not last long.  When you have a grumpy 4-year-old, that is ready to go to bed, reading a chapter from Revelations does not do much for them.  It does not set the right atmosphere when you are having to threaten your child that we will do this devotion if it takes us all night.  There were times we were so concerned …