Youth & Kids – Australian Church Record

Teaching wisdom to our children

January 1, 2019December 18, 2018 by Kylie Yip

“A foolish son is a grief to his fatherand bitterness to her who bore him” (Prov 17:25) Too many of us know this pain first hand—the pain of watching your child make choices that are rightly theirs to make, but that you know will not end well.…

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Christmas Greetings, from 1918

December 24, 2018December 18, 2018 by ACR Team

A very merry Christmas, from all of us on the ACR team! We wanted to share with you this Christ-centred carol written in for the ACR’s Christmas issue in 1918—we are glad to rejoice in the same great news today as they did 100 Christmases ago. …

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They Shall See His Face: A review by Claire Smith

December 4, 2018November 15, 2018 by Claire Smith

You may never have heard of Amy Oxley Wilkinson (1868–1949), although it’s possible you know of her great grandfather, Rowland Hassall—one of the first missionaries to come to Australia after fleeing trouble in Tahiti—or his son…

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Considering Christ with your children at Christmas: An advent Top 5

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 by Jocelyn Loane

It’s not like Christmas sneaks up on you. I think my first mince pie sighting this year was in early October. By November I find I can’t resist the urge to buy more gift tags at every single check out display, in case we are gripped by a nation-wide…

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In Defence of Duty

May 14, 2018 by Adrian Russell

We treat the idea of duty with some suspicion these days. We fear that doing things ‘out of duty’ means acting in a way that isn’t genuine and therefore is less meaningful. But is that the whole story? Duty: the dangers In the Old Testament…

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Stories that shape: The place of Biblical theology in child development

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 by Beth Webb

Much-loved author Morris Gleitzman was recently appointed as the 2018-19 Children’s laureate. A laureate’s role is to promote literacy, which Gleitzman believes equips ‘young readers to embrace an often dark and uncertain world…

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Growing godly kids #3: Teaching children to read the Bible

March 18, 2018March 12, 2018 by Pete Tong

God grows his children through his word, so teaching children to read the Bible is as important as teaching them to feed themselves. Let’s see how we could apply a modelling-training-teaching approach to helping children read the Scriptures.…