为神国 爱教会 守真道 牧群羊
Kevin DeYoung 牧師的 The Biggest Story Family Devotional 是他非常著名的 The Biggest Story 系列的最新的一本，專為家庭崇拜而設計。非常實際，有聖經故事，附帶討論問題，附有視頻，非常適合6-12歲的孩子和家庭。
*I received this book from Crossway in exchange for an honest review.
由北美天道福音中心新鲜出版的“儿童真理”系列圣经故事即将上市，目前正在预购，预计将在11月中旬到达北美地区（香港地区已经到货）。
这个系列是由 The Good Book Company 出版的一系列圣经故事，非常受欢迎，我个人也曾在疫情期间，每周在线上为孩子们讲故事，使用的就是这个系列，每周都有几百个孩子在线上聆听这些圣经故事。对我个人，还有孩子的父母，都有极大的帮助，孩子们就更不用说了。
这个系列的儿童圣经故事的特点是，所有内容都是源自圣经里的真实故事，但是加上戏剧性的描述和表达，让孩子非常非常容易投入其中，更加容易明白这些故事所带出的真理，更加重要的是，这些故事都以基督和福音为中心，不只是简单的说“故事”，更是将故事联系到耶稣基督和祂的救恩。
北美天道福音中心出版的这两本分别是《神的完美大计》和《平息风暴》，分别讲述的是神的创造与教会的关系，以及耶稣基督平静风和浪的故事。故事吸引人，更加能够将故事背后的神的心意带给孩子们。
这个系列是所有基督徒父母不可错过的优质读物，是我们可以用来给孩子读睡前故事、进行家庭敬拜不可错过的宝贵资源。同时，这个系列也适合作为儿童主日学送给孩子们的复活节、感恩节、圣诞节礼物；最后，这个系列也适合我们基督徒家长在举办生日会等聚会时，作为礼物送给前来参加生日聚会的孩子们，特别是慕道友的孩子们。
北美天道福音中心推出这个系列的主要目的和异象并不是简单的翻译、出版，更是为了有更多优质的资源提供给普世的华人孩子们，让他们可以读到更多优质的书籍，从而能够帮助他们从小在信仰上扎根；与此同时，天道福音中心也希望借着这个系列，能够建立起基督徒父母、教会与那些慕道友们的孩子们之间的桥梁，借着这个系列能够更好地向孩子们传福音。所以，这是一个系列，更是一个异象和使命。
北美天道福音中心期待能够陆续出版更多这个系列的儿童圣经故事，而这离不开弟兄姐妹们的支持，无论是为此祷告，还是积极购买，或是买来送给我们身边的亲朋好友，或者为此奉献，都会是极大的帮助，以便他们日后能够推出更多优质的资源。
我个人作为义工参与其中，除了翻译这两本书外，更多是作为志同道合的同工义务参与其中，我个人的负担和盼望一直都是希望看到更多优质的、以福音为中心的儿童读完面世，祝福普世的华人孩子们，同时，作为4个孩子的父亲，每天晚上为孩子们读这些圣经故事，是我最为享受的亲子时光之一，这其中的宝贵，是任何乐高乐园、迪斯尼乐园、度假村或是昂贵的礼物都无法替代的。所以我也格外感恩能够有机会参与到这个可以祝福更多孩子的事工中，特别是能够亲自翻译这两本圣经故事，更是我极大的喜乐。
诚意地推荐给各位基督徒父母、教会主日学同工、教会领袖们，今年的感恩节、圣诞节、新年，当我们思想为孩子们买什么礼物、为亲友的孩子预备什么礼物、为教会的孩子们预备什么礼物的时候，请不要忘记“儿童真理”系列圣经故事。
这个世界每天都在为我们的孩子们提供各种各样的资源，这些资源有好有坏，但是我们却很少看到有优质的属灵资源能够提供给我们的孩子，您是否愿意参与其中，帮助改善这一状况呢？
这个系列目前在预购阶段，预购有优惠。原价$14.99，预购价仅为$12.99
更多详情和预购链接：https://forms.gle/R4m9JxqH4rEohrYM6
家庭敬拜資源推薦
秦傳道 / Pastor Calvin
親愛的弟兄姊妹們平安
我們8週的家庭敬拜的操練雖然結束了，無論這個過程如何，可能我們每天都在堅持，有可能我們時而會忘記或忽略，或者我們陸陸續續、跌跌撞撞地在操練，但是讓我們記得一件很重要的時期，這8週的操練，只是開始，而不是結束。
接下來的每一天，我希望大家都可以繼續堅持，繼續每日進行家庭敬拜的操練。家庭敬拜不是培養敬虔後裔的全部，家庭敬拜其實是我們家庭門訓的一部分，家庭敬拜是我們在家中進行門訓的一種方式和體現。
我也鼓勵所有的弟兄們、父親們能夠站起來，在家庭門訓中主動承擔帶領的責任。這是上帝給我們每個父親的使命和榮耀，讓我們一起忠心地履行、實踐這個使命。
為了幫助大家更好地進行家庭崇拜，我整理了一些我覺得實用且紮實的資源，希望給弟兄姊妹們帶來一些幫助和指引。
Unfolding Grace for Kids: A 40-Day Journey through the Bible:https://www.crossway.org/bibles/unfolding-grace-for-kids-hc/
此書也有配套的給成人的，可以一起使用：Unfolding Grace: 40 Guided Readings through the Bible: https://www.crossway.org/bibles/unfolding-grace-hcj/
這套書的作者是我們當地 Zionsville Fellowship Church 的 Drew Hunter 牧師，也是我特別要好的朋友。
Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship: https://www.crossway.org/books/be-thou-my-vision-cob/
Exploring the Bible Together: A 52-Week Family Worship Plan: https://www.crossway.org/books/exploring-the-bible-together-case/
The New City Catechism: 52 Questions and Answers for Our Hearts and Minds:https://www.crossway.org/books/the-new-city-catechism-tpb/
還有一本是我非常喜歡的 Kevin DeYoung 牧師所編輯的一本聖經：The Biggest Story Bible Storybook，全書配有非常精美的插畫：
https://www.crossway.org/books/the-biggest-story-bible-storybook-hcj/
最後，我推薦一本我讀過的關於談論家庭門訓最好的著作， Matt Chandler 牧師所寫的這本：Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home through Time, Moments, and Milestones: https://www.crossway.org/books/family-discipleship-case/
這本書，我希望你可以傾盡全力去讀她，不計代價地去讀她，你會獲益匪淺！
附上我之前的一個關於家庭敬拜的講座視頻，希望給大家一些幫助和提醒。
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上帝祝福大家！
愛你們、和你們一起成長的 秦傳道/Pastor Calvin
印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第四十天：02/25/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：两个麻雀不是卖一分银子吗？若是你们的父不许，一个也不能掉在地上；就是你们的头发也都被数过了。所以，不要惧怕，你们比许多麻雀还贵重！（马太福音10:29-31）
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10:29-31)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，你是爱我、看顾我的主，谢谢你每天的看顾和保守，让我学习依靠你，相信你，在凡事上都寻求你的帮助。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 40: What should we pray?
The whole Word of God directs and inspires us in what we should pray, including the prayer Jesus himself taught us.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
God Who Hears, let your living Word shape our desires and our prayers. May it challenge us to pray for things that don’t seem possible. May it inform our view of you as we approach you as beloved sons and daughters. May it drive us to our knees as we recognize our need of you. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十九天：02/24/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：他看见许多的人，就怜悯他们；因为他们困苦流离，如同羊没有牧人一般。（马太福音9:36）
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. (Matthew 9:36)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我有你的心肠，看到很多人还没有认识你，还没有得救，求主帮助我，可以乐意和人分享耶稣，帮助更多人可以认识你。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 39: With what attitude should we pray?
With love, perseverance, and gratefulness; in humble submission to God’s will, knowing that, for the sake of Christ, he always hears our prayers.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
🙏 Prayer
Loving Father, we come to you in the name of your beloved Son. Give us perseverance in prayer, even when we do not immediately see answers. Let us believe that you will not keep back any good thing from us, and trust that you will withhold those things we seek that would harm us. Your ways are higher than our ways, and we entrust our requests to your sovereign kindness. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十八天：02/23/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：你们祈求，就给你们；寻找，就寻见；叩门，就给你们开门。因为凡祈求的，就得着；寻找的，就寻见；叩门的，就给他开门。（马太福音7:7-8）
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我学习用信心依靠你，让我用信心去寻求你，让我在每一件事上都用祷告来寻求你的心意。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 38: What is prayer?
Prayer is pouring out our hearts to God in praise, petition, confession of sin, and thanksgiving.
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.
Our Great Refuge, thank you for calling us to prayer. You are not far away; you are near, and you hear us when we pray. Let us pour out our hearts to you without ceasing. Let us pray without guile, bringing our true selves before your throne of grace. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十七天：02/22/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：你們要先求祂的国和祂的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。（马太福音6:33）
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matthew 6:33)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我可以先求你的国和你的义，让我可以成为讨你喜悦的儿女，让我更多思想、关注你的国和你的旨意。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 37: How does the Holy Spirit help us?
The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us spiritual gifts and the desire to obey God; and he enables us to pray and to understand God’s Word.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
🙏 Prayer
God the Spirit, have your way in us. Shine your light on the secret sins of our hearts. Equip us for tasks that are too large for us. Make us glad in what delights you. Intercede for us and open our eyes to rightly understand the Word of truth. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十六天：02/21/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：我们在天上的父：愿人都尊你的名为圣。愿你的国降临；愿你的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们。免我们的债，如同我们免了人的债。不叫我们遇见试探；救我们脱离凶恶。因为国度、权柄、荣耀，全是你的，直到永远。阿们！（马太福音6:9-13）
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我遵行你的公义，喜爱怜悯，存谦卑的心，每日与你同行。阿门。
🎤 诗歌： https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXE6PrQy0_g&list=PLWcRMWaH9zDs5vD0Fbsv3R6iTvy0TozZ4&index=2
7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 36: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?
That he is God, coeternal with the Father and the Son, and that God grants him irrevocably to all who believe.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
🙏 Prayer
God Our Help, we thank you for sending your Spirit to live in us. Thank you that he chastens and disciplines, strengthens and comforts us. Let us live the life of faith in his power, not our own. Let us walk the path of obedience, filled with his joy. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十五天：02/18/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：怜恤人的人有福了！因为他们必蒙怜恤。（马太福音5:7）
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. (Matthew 5:7)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我成为一个满有爱心和怜悯的人，就好像你怜悯我这个罪人一样，让我效法你的怜悯，对我的家人、同学、朋友和身边的人。求主赐给我怜悯的心。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 35: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
All the gifts we receive from Christ we receive through the Holy Spirit, including faith itself.
📖 Scripture: Titus 3:4-6
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
🙏 Prayer
Holy Spirit, you sought us when we could not seek you because we were dead in our trespasses and sins. You are the giver of our faith; none of us would believe apart from your regenerating grace, by which you make hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. Let us put aside all boasting in light of your undeserved mercy. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十四天：02/17/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：饥渴慕义的人有福了！因为他们必得饱足。（马太福音5:6）
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. (Matthew 5:6)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我遵行你的公义，喜爱怜悯，存谦卑的心，每日与你同行。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 34: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?
Yes, because Christ, having redeemed us by his blood, also renews us by his Spirit; so that our lives may show love and gratitude to God; so that we may be assured of our faith by the fruits; and so that by our godly behavior others may be won to Christ.
📖 Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9–12
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
🙏 Prayer
Heavenly Father, you have saved us from sin. Let us not continue in it as if we were still enslaved to it. You have given us commands that are the path of life. Let us treasure those commands. May all who know us see our good works and glorify you because of them. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十三天：02/16/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：温柔的人有福了！因为他们必承受地土。（马太福音5:5）
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我学习温柔，使我可以学习耶稣基督的温柔，让我的心里柔和、谦卑。阿门。
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7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?
No, they should not, as everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ. To seek salvation through good works is a denial that Christ is the only Redeemer and Savior.
📖 Scripture: Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
🙏 Prayer
One and Only God, keep us from trusting in good works or living in such a way that we imply they are the grounds of our salvation. Let us glorify your grace by leaning our whole weight upon it, staking our lives on the promise that you are the beginning and the end of our salvation. Amen.
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印城华人教会西北堂 每日家庭崇拜指引
第三十二天：02/15/2022
0-7岁儿童：
📖 经文：哀恸的人有福了！因为他们必得安慰。（马太福音5:4）
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. (Matthew 5:4)
🙏 祷告：亲爱的天父，求你帮助我，让我在伤心、难过的时候可以寻求你，因为你是那赐安慰的神。求你帮助我常为我的罪哀伤，让我看到我的罪常常使你哀恸。阿门。
🎤 诗歌： https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMEKuEPcCUc
7-15岁：（材料来自：http://newcitycatechism.com）
❓Question 32: What do justification and sanctification mean?
Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made possible by Christ’s death and resurrection for us. Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness, made possible by the Spirit’s work in us.
📖 Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1–2
To those who are elect exiles . . . according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
🙏 Prayer
Our Savior and Lord, you have completed the work of our justification. You have begun the work of our sanctification, and we trust that you will carry us through to its completion. Transform us day by day into your likeness, conforming us to your ways. Amen.
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