Category Archives: praying for children

Equip Kids with Answers to Faith Challenges

“Oh, well, that is what you believe.” Have you heard that with a patronizing dismissal? Do you understand that suggestion that your Biblical commitments are marginalized? That you should be ashamed? That they can be explained by….your socialization, lack of education or whatever? If you can’t answer this challenge, how will your child?

Have you ever worried if your child could stand up to an atheist professor? To a supposed role model? To a really bright, but challenging friend?

Have you ever wondered what was taught in and around the school? What values might be creeping in via media of all kinds?

Did you know that those under 18 are the least likely to say they are Christians? Did you know that pastors are often baffled why young people today sit in a stupified way, untouched by the gospel, until they realize the amount of porn sewage coming across the young person’s phone.

It doesn’t take porn. It doesn’t take active choices. Just the value system taught in public schools and colleges often challenge faith.

If your faith is farther from the Bible than your parents, think how much farther from the Bible is your kids.

What to do? I have the answers! Nine, in fact. Listen to my series of Nine + Answers to the most common challenges to the Christian faith in today’s world. I give you a short synopsis of the value set and an answer to it. All in short audio segments.

Be sure and purchase the entire set. For nine CDs, mailed to you, so you can keep and share, it is only $30.00. However, if you send my a check to Sharon Sarles / The Great Shalom P.O. Boc 971 Cedar Park Texas 79630 before October the 1st, I will slash the price in half. Only $15.00. And I will pay the shipping and handling. That is how vital I think it is to get this information out.

In some Christian schools, they do teach a class called Apologetics. I am sure some of these are really great. Personally, I feel that most apologetics classes in college are more academic and dealing more with questions asked over time, rather than the questions most posed today. Worse, most of the courses that I have actually seen have been limited to high school and are so watered down as to be useless. First, we have serious challenges in today’s culture, unlike any other. Second, children need these answers long before they are juniors in high school. Thirdly, they need to be couched in modern, personal terms rather than made to sound silly, boring, or course-like. So this 9+ part series is vital for any Christian home.

Even the adults, faced with the same challenges will want to hear this series. This month, half price.

But that is not all. There are bonuses.
First, a CD discussing the importance of Sunday School/Children’s Church and how to evaluate program in which to place your child.
Then, there is a prayer CD, where I lead mothers, grandmothers, whoever, in prayer for their children and the children of this nation.
And THRID, is a tenth CD discussing yet another answer.

It is a deal. Send $15.00 today to P.O. Box 971 Cedar Park, Texas 78630, being sure to let me know your address!

Imagine how good you will feel when that slick, smart sounding bully doesn’t close down your kid. With these 19, no 10, answers, you and your children will have an answer for the hope that is within you.

Be sure to share this offer with others. Let them know. This is vital information for right now. Have an answer for the hope that is within you.

Recommended book:

    How to Not Lose Your Faith in College

by Sharon Sarles, available about on www.lulu.com

Easter Post in Time of Terror

This is Holy Week; Sunday is Easter. Our topic this week is “It is finished.” These are the words of Christ as he die. So what is finished? Our work of redemption. And our healing. Please listen.

GSB It is Finished

Then, please remember this great doctrine as you pray. As you pray for your children, for healing, and/or for the healing so necessary in the world today, remember that Jesus paid for it all. It is promised to us. We need to pray in faith for its manifestation.

One day all wrongs will be righted. One day all tears will be wiped away. One day we will see God’s glory — which is to heal all those who want it. However, it is already decided. His decisions are made. Let us make ours to agree with him.

What a great mystery of faith and love! How could we chose another path?

Related books:
After Easter: How Christ’s Resurrection Changed Everything
Ethics after Easter (New Church’s Teaching Series)

The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection (Case for … Series)

Come, Let’s Pray Bigger

reblogged from Hala Thompkins, Christian Education Director at Hope Chapel, Austin
Far Too Easily Pleased?

I have been reading all sorts of essays and blogs recently. As a result, they become jumbled in my head and I can’t quite remember whose thought was whose.

However, in something I read recently, the author quoted C.S. Lewis and this idea has stuck in my head ever since:

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and s-x and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ”

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, p.26

I’ve thought about applying this as I pray. Am I far too easily pleased? As I pray for my friends who are battling hard things- do I actually believe that God can do even more than I am asking? Am I willing to ask even bigger than is safe? What does real faith look like?

I want to encourage all of us to not be too easily pleased with ordinary, average, okay things. I am asking God to increase my faith, stretch my obedience and glorify Himself by making me dissatisfied with mud pies.

Will you come with me?

December’s ‘Casts : Holiday Food and Giving

Letter from Shiloh Correspondence about children’s therapy center in Shiloh Israel.

Testimony from Shiloh David Rubin, former mayor of Shiloh tells how he and his son were victims of a terrorist’s random shooting and how he transmuted it to good by establishing a children’s therapy center.

Contend in Prayer How to Pray for Your Children

Holiday Food 121116 Make bodies and brains while you make good memories.