By Michael Sherrard Time and time again, I hear the story of one who has left their belief in God in the bin of their childhood memories alongside Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. And more often than not, I’m given one reason that is quite strange. Well, it's not...
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Book Review: God’s Crime Scene for Kids
By Luke Nix Introduction Several years ago, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace wrote the book "God's Crime Scene" where he details his investigation, as an atheist, into the evidence for God's existence. In the book, he explains that investigating the...
60 Christmas Gift Ideas for Christian Kids and Adults
By Natasha Crain I’ve recently had a lot of people asking for recommendations for Christmas gift ideas, for both kids and adults, so I’ve put together this detailed list of my top picks! They are almost all books, but there are a few other ideas as well. Gift ideas...
Apologetics for Children
By Mikel Del Rosario How can we help our children understand evidence for the Christian faith? When people ask me about apologetics for children, I think back to the time when my son was in kindergarten. A classmate would tease him at school by sarcastically asking,...
Should You Force Your Kids To Go To Church?
By Natasha Crain A reader of this blog posed this question on the Facebook page because her boys –ages 10, 12 and 15– are uninterested in church. It’s a very important question that I wanted to address with this post. At the risk of trivializing the question itself,...
If Kids Don’t Understand Why Miracles Don’t Discredit the Bible, Their Faith Will Be Easily Crushed
By Natasha Crain “The light of common sense, thrown on the stories of making snakes out of rods, of the Red Sea dividing itself, of Christ’s making wine from water, curing blind men by rubbing spit in their eyes, walking on water, the story of the flood, God’s making...
Committed Christians Are Now a Minority and Kids Need to Know It
By Natasha Crain I grew up in a smallish town in Arizona (about 25,000 people at the time). Almost everyone I knew fit into one of four buckets: 1) committed Christians, 2) nominal Christians, 3) those who didn’t call themselves Christians but accepted...
What is the Difference Between Absolute and Relative Truth?
By Natasha Crain (This is one of 40 key questions I address in my new book, Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side: 40 Conversations to Help Them Build a Lasting Faith. If you’re a parent, grandparent, church educator, or other special person in the spiritual life of a...
8 Things Kids Should Know About Hell
By Natasha Crain Hell is probably not at the top of your list of things to talk about with your kids. On the surface, it seems to contradict all the messages about God’s love that we share with them. We worry about confusing them or having them follow Jesus out of...
How Do I Explain Abortion To My Children?
By Michael Sherrard These kinds of questions keep you awake at night. Knowing how and when to talk to your children about sensitive issues isn't an exact science. But we better figure it out quick. While we contemplate the best way to do it, our little ones are being...
A Parent’s Guide to the 5 Skeptics Who Want to Shame Your Kids for Being Christian
By Natasha Crain Having blogged for over six years now, I’ve received hundreds (and hundreds) of comments and emails from skeptics of Christianity. Once in a while, I receive one from a pleasant non-believer who is truly interested in discussing evidence, asking...
Your Kids Will Likely Have No Idea How to Choose Their Own Christian Church as Adults… and That’s a Problem
by Natasha Crain I grew up mostly in non-denominational churches, with a Baptist church or two thrown in. For all intents and purposes, my understanding of the world was that there were two types of churches: Christian and non-Christian. Easy peasy. If you gave me a...
4 Things That Must Happen Before More Christian Parents Will Care About Questions of Faith and Science
By Natasha Crain In my newest book, Talking with Your Kids about God, there are six chapters that focus on the intersection of faith and science. They answer the questions: Can science prove or disprove God’s existence? Do science and religion contradict each other?...
Can You and Your Kids Answer These Skeptics of Christianity? (Part 1 of 5)
by Natasha Crain Over the last few months since Talking with Your Kids about God came out, I’ve heard from a lot of parents who especially love the conversation guides provided in the book. Every chapter has one of these guides to help parents have a conversation with...
The 3 Most Important Conversations about Easter that Most Sunday Schools and Parents Aren’t Having with Kids
by Natasha Crain When I think back to Easter as a child, I remember year after year in Sunday School coloring cross pictures, making empty tomb crafts, having Easter-themed snacks, and singing celebratory worship songs. There is no doubt I learned that Jesus was...
Your Kids Need to Think Critically About the Resurrection… Because Secular Media Does Not
By Natasha Crain This month’s issue of Scientific American magazine features an article by atheist Michael Shermer entitled, “What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?” It’s boldly subtitled, “How to think about claims, even the Resurrection.” Wow! This article in...
If You’re Sick of Thoughts and Prayers Because Shootings Still Happen, You Don’t Understand Christianity
By Natasha Crain In response to the latest tragic school shooting, social media is on the warpath against anyone who dares to offer “thoughts and prayers” for the situation. Popular articles feature headlines like, “Everyone Is Finally Realizing ‘Thoughts And Prayers’...
5 Regrets You Don’t Want to Have If Your Kids Walk Away from Faith
By Natasha Crain Regret. It’s something I often hear from parents who are heartbroken that their teen or adult kids have walked away from Christianity. Whether it’s through one of my online books read along groups, private emails, blog comments, Facebook messages, or...
Talking with Your Kids about God w/ Natasha Crain
Christian parenting is hard work--and it's getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith but fear that today's increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents...
How Living Counter-Culturally Can Lead to Your Kids’ Resentment of Christianity
By Natasha Crain Our family just returned from a wonderful vacation to the mountains of British Columbia. It was stunningly beautiful! We spent our first day there relaxing at this picture-perfect lake: My husband and kids had a blast swimming out to a wooden...
