How to Lead a Family Devotion - Patrick Morley

How to Lead a Family Devotion - A Look in the Mirror #181 



In 30 years of working with men, no pain men face seems to hurt as much as "child pain." On the other hand, if your children are doing well, all of your other problems will fit into a thimble.

Now that I have two grown, happily married children who are walking with the Lord, I can look back and see what set the stage for their spiritual walks. One VERY important activity was to set aside a time for a brief family devotion at the beginning of most days during the school year. It was not so much the activity itself as the "message" about how important Patsy and I deemed devotions, the discussions that it got our family into, and the spirit of prayer it fostered both then and now.


I wrote up how we did our family devotions for the book, Devotions For Couples (Zondervan). Here is an edited version of that chapter....

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