Author Barbara Reaoch shares about the importance of discipling children and focusing on God at Christmastime.

• A Jesus Christmas and A Better Than Anything Christmas by Barbara Reaoch
• “The study of God’s Word is a vehicle that He uses to open the eyes of our hearts to love Him and know Him.”
• Bible Study Fellowship
• “God prepares us for what He is calling us to.”
• “It is some of the most valuable, eternal work that anyone could ever be asked to do - to see God’s love pour out to the next generation that’s looking for what will transform their lives.”
• Deuteronomy 6
• Psalm78
• “God gives us the desire for what He will call us to do, and through that calling, He will help us to know and love Him more.”
• “Christmas is such a great time to start discipling a child.”
• Spanish translation of A Jesus Christmas
• “The Bible tells us that Christmas is about the gifts that Jesus came to give to us.  All of Jesus’s gifts are better than the best gifts that we could ever ask for.”
• “I come back so often, through the disappointments and challenges and uncertainties of life, to the assurance that God is lovingly sovereign.”
• “Part of His plan is what He is doing in you and through you, and you can trust Him to use what you are doing for His glory.”
• To enter the contest: Email [email protected] with the name of the kids you’ll share Barbara Reaoch’s books with!

Advent Theme: Joy Revised Common Lectionary: Zephaniah 3:14-20, Isaiah 12:2-6

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