The Family Table
Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
TFT: Mike Winger and BibleThinker
June 23, 2024
Dear LEFC Parents,
Here are some items to set the table for disciple-making in your family in the week ahead:
Where Do Babies Come From?
Focus on the Family recently aired a broadcast interview with Dr. Justin and Lindsey Holcomb on how to answer that unavoidable question in a kid-friendly way. The Holcombs are the authors of the short book, God Made Babies: Helping Parents Answer the Baby Question.
The Gospel Project at Home
Today’s Bible Study is “We Are Here to Glorify God” (Volume 12: Unit 34: Session 4). Ask your kids what they learned in Kids Bible Class this morning and/or do the family devotional you can find at this link.
Snack and Yack!
When the auditorium empties after worship, girls and boys (grades 3ish-7ish) who listened to the sermon (remember to fill out a handout!) are invited to Pastor Matt’s office for a tasty treat and a brief discussion with an LEFC elder couple about the message.
And for dessert…
We’d like to welcome Keith Hurley to our dessert section this week! Keith is one of our elders at the church and has been a youth group teacher for a few years now. His recommendations are perfect both for adults and for the tech-savvy generation we are raising, with a helpful and theologically sound YouTube channel to guide them to. Keith writes:
This week’s recommendation for family discipleship is the combination of website and YouTube channel from Mike Winger. The website is BibleThinker.org and the YouTube channel “Mike Winger“.
As of the time of this writing, Mike Winger has 961 videos on his channel, all dedicated to helping you think biblically about everything so you can deal with false teaching, know what Scripture says about specific issues, prove Christianity is true, go deep into theology and become a go-to resource so you can help others. Mike has a passion for helping others to carefully and thoughtfully understand and apply the Bible by creating well-researched biblical content.
On Fridays, Mike does a Q&A video answering questions that his viewers have. He has 114 videos of “20 Questions with Mike Winger” – that’s 2,280 questions in that series alone, and is currently working on a 10 Questions Q&A session of Fridays. While the Q&A sessions may be short answers for questions, Mike is not afraid to go into deep theological waters or tackle controversial subjects. He has even gone so far as to hire Bible scholars to review the Passion Translation of the Bible when his personal knowledge of Greek and Hebrew is insufficient, and to add credibility to his teaching. If you encounter what seems like a contradiction in the Bible, have a difficult question, or need clarification on a difficult verse or subject, you can probably find a video in which someone has asked that in a Q&A or Mike has studied and devoted a video to it.
While all this may seem like a lot and you might think it would be almost impossible to find a specific topic, his website BibleThinker.org has a search function that makes finding a specific question or issue amazingly easy.
Mike Winger’s videos and teaching are one of my favorite go-to resources and has helped me to think biblically about various issues. I hope it helps you, too.
Holly Crumrine, Family Table Editor
Keith Hurley, Elder at LEFC
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EXPLAINER: THE GOSPEL PROJECT AT HOME
For the last several years, our Children’s Church ministry has utilized The Gospel Project as our Bible study curriculum. The Gospel Project is really excellent–it takes our Little Learners and Bible Explorers chronologically through the whole Bible over the course of three years while always focusing on Jesus as the center of the big story. If your student was in Little Learners or Bible Explorers this morning, they received a coloring page and take-home sheet that corresponds to this lesson. You have also been given a full-color Big Picture Card that you can use to reinforce the lesson with your child, as well.
To reinforce what your kids are learning each week in Children’s Church, you can now access The Gospel Project At Home online. Each week in this email, there will be a link to follow to get this free resource which includes:
1. A guide to using the Gospel Project at Home.
2. Scripture to read and discuss with a recap video of the Bible Story (Preschool and/or Elementary).
3. Scripture memory verses and a song to sing together.
4. Prayer prompts and family activities that correspond to the lesson.
Please consider setting aside at least 10-15 minutes once a week for a family devotional time using this resource as a guide. We are hoping The Gospel Project At Home will help keep all of our LEFC kids “on the same page,” and feed their faith in Jesus.
This might be especially helpful if for some reason your child has to miss a week of Children’s Church. You can show them the Bible story video to keep them up to speed on what the other children are learning.
**Note: The first time you access the link, you will need to register a free account with Lifeway’s Ministry Grid. This will also provide you ongoing access through the “training” tab to many other discipleship resources including the Gospel Project at Home for previous weeks. Many hours of excellent things to absorb for free!