This website is about Biblical worship. And sometimes we just need to make clear exactly who the real God is that we are worshiping!
Last week, my thirteen-year-old son told me something that stopped me in my tracks. He said, “Dad, did you know that our God and Allah are really the same god?” He had watched a film at his middle school that day called Three Religions: One God. If my child — who is daily being taught Christian values from the Bible — could believe such a lie, how easily can children and youth in non-Christian homes think that Allah is the same as the Christian God?
The very next night during our family devotion, we compared Allah and Yahweh (YHWH) according to the Quran and the Holy Bible. I encourage all parents to sit down with their children and go through these important points below. Our God is the only true God. Allah and all other so-called gods are false and cannot begin to compare to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. – Dwayne
The Bible vs. The Quran
- YHWH is God’s name ‘forever’. (Exodus 3:13-15)
Allah is God’s name. (The Quran)
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This is the final devotion excerpted from the 30 Days of Praise Devotional Journal. 30 Days of Praise is a churchwide emphasis on worship that include weekly family devotions on each of the 5 themes in 30 Days of Praise. To view all 5 of the family devotions, go to the Family Devotions category on this site.
We have heard from so many families who have enjoyed going through these devotions together. If you have used these with your family, please leave us a comment about how it went. Thanks so much! – Dwayne
Family Devotion
Week 5 – Hearing from God
Say this week’s memory verse together: He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. – Isaiah 50:4b (NIV)
Say: I want all of us to be very still and quiet for a few seconds. I want us to listen really closely for any little noises and sounds we can hear while we’re being quiet. Ready? 1, 2, 3, go! (Wait 15 –30 seconds in silence.)
Ask: What did you hear? (Let everyone describe something they heard while being silent.) Read more…
This is the fourth devotional of the family devotions series we have posted. Each of these brief, but effective family devotions are taken from the 30 Days of Praise Devotional Journal. 30 Days of Praise is a church-wide emphasis on worship that includes daily devotions, small group Bible studies and messages on worship by your pastor. Go here to learn more!
Feel free to print this devotion and use with your family tonight!
From Week 4 of the 30 Days of Praise Personal Devotional Journal:
Say this week’s memory verse together: Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. – Philippians 2:4 (NKJ)
Say: God’s family is really, really big. There are a lot of people at our church that love Jesus and are in God’s family. But there are even more of God’s family in other churches in our community, in our country and in our world. Everyone in God’s family is different. Some have dark brown skin; some have red or yellow skin; some have beige or light skin. Some have red hair; others have black, blond or brown hair. Read more…
This is the third installment of family devotions we have posted. Each of these brief, but effective family devotions are taken from the 30 Days of Praise Devotional Journal. 30 Days of Praise is a church-wide emphasis on worship that includes daily devotions, small group Bible studies and messages on worship by your pastor. Go here to learn more!
Feel free to print this devotion and use with your family tonight!
From Week 3 of the 30 Days of Praise Personal Devotional Journal:
Say this week’s memory verse together: As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.—2 Corinthians 3:18b (NLT) p>
Ask: Think about who is your best friend. How did you get to be best friends? Were you best friends the first time you met or did it take some time to become best friends? What is your friend like? What does he orshe like to do and where does he or she like to go?
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Excerpt from Week 2 of the 30 Days of Praise Personal Journal:
Week 2—What Is Praise
Family Worship Time
Say this week’s memory verse together: Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. —Hebrews 13:15 (NKJ)
Ask: Don’t you like it when someone praises you for something you did? Maybe someone compliments you on a picture you drew or a song you sang. Or maybe you do really well on a paper at school and someone says, ”Good job!”
Say: God is much more deserving of praise than we are. He created the stars and the earth and made everything around us that is good and perfect. Let’s name some things now that God has made. Read more…
The following is an excerpt from the 30 Days of Praise Personal Journal. 30 Days of PraiseTM is a church-wide campaign on worship for children through senior adults. The weekly family worship times are one of the most important aspects of 30 Days of Praise. (To download the entire first week’s daily devotions and other FREE sample materials for 30 Days of Praise, please go to www.30DaysofPraise.com.)
Week 1—What Is Worship
Family Worship Time
Say this week’s memory verse together: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.—Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJ)
Have everyone say this together: Worshiping God means loving God.
Say: We worship God when we show him we love him by what we think (point at your head), by what we say (point at your mouth), and by what we do (extend your hands).
Ask: How can we worship God—from a heart that loves him and wants to obey him or from a heart that doesn’t love God and is full of sin? Read more…
