Episode 52: Luke 11 Jesus Teaches About Life in His Kingdom

In this episode, I share from Luke when Jesus tells about the Father’s care through the Holy Spirit and that His followers can’t live in the light without His help.

Discussion with your kids: Imagine that Jesus is sitting on a chair in your living room and asks, “What’s been making you feel happy lately? What’s been making you feel sad?” Tell Him, and then thank Him for listening.

Episode 51: Luke 10 Jesus Teaches About How to Love God and Others

In this episode, I share from Luke about how Jesus invited His disciples to preach, care for others, and learn from Him, and how we can do the same in the power of His Holy Spirit so that those who want to know Him can hear.

Discussion with your kids: Choose a harvest field to pray for, whether it’s close to where you live or across the ocean, and ask God to send someone to share the gospel with each person who’s ready to hear.

Episode 50: Luke 9 Jesus Reveals Himself as the Messiah

In this episode, I share from Luke about how the disciples began to go out in Jesus’ power, but still needed to understand the extent of it, and how God can give us faith to believe He has the power to shine His light of love and healing into any situation.

Discussion with your kids: Take turns naming as many powerful things as you can, and then thank Jesus for being more powerful than any of them.

Episode 49: Luke 8 Jesus Shows His Power and Authority

In this episode, I share from Luke when Jesus rescued each person who came to Him in need, and how He invites us to trust His powerful work in our lives even if we don’t know what kind of help we need.

Discussion with your kids: Think of someone who needs God’s help right now. Pray that they would know Jesus’ peace and trust in His power to help them.

Episode 48: Luke 7 Jesus Heals, Raises the Dead, and Forgives

In this episode, I share from Luke when Jesus heals the Roman commander’s servant, raises a widow’s son, and forgives a woman who poured perfume on his feet, and how God invites us to see how much we need Him and trust Him to take care of us.

Discussion with your kids: Share with each other one person you’d like to imagine leading by the hand to God’s throne. Pray that they could know His love for them, just as if He’d scooped them up into His arms and put them on His lap.

Episode 47: Luke 6 Jesus Teaches About His Kingdom

In this episode, I share from Luke when Jesus faced the Pharisees and taught His disciples–and now us about how to trust Him with our hearts and love others with His transformative love.


Discussion with your kids: Ask the Holy Spirit to bear His fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in your heart this week. And thank God for the help He does bring!

 

Episode 46: Luke 5 Jesus Calls His First Disciples

In this episode, I share from Luke when people began responding to Jesus’ call to follow Him, and that we can enjoy and invite others into this friendship of trust and obedience, too.

Discussion with your kids: Think of someone who seems like they need a hug from God and pray that they would know His love in a deeper way.

Episode 45: Luke 4 Jesus Begins to Heal and Preach

In this episode, I share from Luke about Jesus overcoming every temptation and obeying the Father perfectly, so that we could share in His righteousness and join in His mission.

Discussion with your kids: Think of a nation around the world that needs the light of Jesus’ love. Pray that His light would conquer the darkness in each person’s heart.

Episode 44: Luke 2-3 Jesus Prepares for His Ministry

In this episode, I share from the gospels about how God led John to tell the people that Jesus had come, and how Jesus lived a life of perfect obedience as he grew up. Through Jesus’ sacrifice, we get to enjoy the benefits of that obedience given to us and join Him in being the Father’s beloved sons and daughters.

Discussion with your kids: What’s something you would love to hear Jesus say to you when you meet Him in heaven?

Episode 43: Luke 2 Jesus is Born!

In this episode, I share from Luke 2 about how God worked all the pieces together for Jesus’ birth and how we can trust God to keep His promises to us and in all that we are still waiting for.

Discussion with your kids: Share a promise from God’s Word that has encouraged you lately, and invite your kids to do the same. You can even ask them, “Why do you think Jesus is better than anything else?”