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If you’re here, you’re probably a parent, carer, grandparent or children’s worker who just wants to do your best for the kids in your care.

That’s Amazing! God really, really loves children and so do we. So let us support you. Each month we feature a parent, an expert or an author who has something to help you disciple your children and lead them to Jesus.

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What one thing should kids know about the Holy Spirit?

by Joanne Gilchrist

God was and is and will be forever. He is the Alpha, the Omega, the Ancient of Days, our very present help in times of trouble. Even if someone does not believe in God, God still exists. Even when we are unaware of God’s presence and work upon the earth, His Spirit has been hovering and present since before the dawn of creation and His Spirit is there in Revelation, compelling us to “Come” to the Father. The Holy Spirit is the presence of God long before any of us were ever born, let alone aware of Him.

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God has Feelings, Just Like Us

by Celeste Majcher, Author.

Do you know how hard it is to be a Christian and suffer from depression? 

The entire world tells you that your faith should be enough, that God should heal you and that feeling depressed is ungodly. 

In fact, any kind of negative feelings are often characterised as unchristian. Anger? Anxiety? Fear? Jealousy? Sadness? All wrong according to the worldly expectations of our faith. 

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God Chooses

by Carol Barwick, trustee for Ruach Resources

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

What made you choose it?

Did you have to have it?

Did you know that God has a choice?

Think about it, in the beginning there was nothing. No things. And God chose for that to change! God wanted things to exist, to be. He wanted animals and trees and houses and people

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What does God look like?

by Joanne Gilchrist, writer and founder of Ruach Resources

The other night, I’m helping my 5 year old to brush her teeth and she asks ‘Does God have teeth, Mum?’

“What do you think, sweetheart?” I reply, intrigued.

“I think He does.” She says, matter-of-factly. Then she spits, rinses and goes off to her bedroom.

But since no one has actually ever seen God (it says so in the Bible, John 1:18) how would you answer that question?

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If God is Real, Why Can't I See God?

by Joanne Gilchrist, writer and founder of Ruach Resources

Why does the app God for Kids choose to begin the description of God with God is Invisible, God Feels, God Thinks, God Chooses, God is Good and God is Love? Are they the most important characteristics of God? Not necessarily. Are they the most fun or the most interesting? Possibly. Was I stuck for ideas? Definitely not!

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