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The Family Altar Shelf - Family Worship Without the Awkward
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items Family worship is fifteen minutes and three habits - read, pray, sing - and most families only lack a starting script. This shelf is the toolkit: the how-to books, the catechisms that give kids answers worth memorizing, and the hymnals and liturgies ...
Sections
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Starting the Habit
Catechism for the Kids
Singing and Praying at Home
Starting the Habit
The how-to shelf: Beeke, Johnson, Helopoulos, and Meade on leading at home.
Joel Beeke's Family Worship is the short Reformed case for the practice - why it matters, how it runs, and what to do when the toddler eats the bulletin. The primer to hand a hesitant dad.
Family Guidance Family Worship, (Paperback)
Terry Johnson's Family Worship Book is the resource volume - readings, prayers, catechism, and hymn suggestions arranged for actual living rooms. The one-book starter kit for the whole habit.
The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions, (Hardcover)
Jason Helopoulos's A Neglected Grace argues family worship is a means of grace, not a performance review - gentle, brief, and full of permission to be bad at it while you learn. The encourager of the section.
A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home, (Paperback)
Starr Meade's Training Hearts, Teaching Minds turns the Westminster Shorter Catechism into a year of five-minute family devotions - one question a week, read at the table. The catechism shelf's daily driver.
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism, (Paperback)
Catechism for the Kids
Questions worth memorizing: the New City, Ascol's memory books, MacKenzie for the littles, and Heidelberg itself.
The New City Catechism condenses the old Heidelberg and Westminster teaching into 52 questions for modern families - one a week, a year of doctrine at the dinner table. The current standard for family catechizing.
The New City Catechism
Founders' Truth and Grace Memory Book gives children catechism questions, Scripture, and hymns graded by age - memory work with a plan instead of a hope. The Baptist shelf-mate to the New City.
Pre-Owned Truth and Grace Memory Book One: Ages Two to Nine (Paperback) 1943539057 9781943539055
Carine MacKenzie's My First Book of Questions and Answers is the catechism for the youngest - 114 short questions in words a four-year-old can actually carry. The starter book under everything else here.
My First Book Of Questions And Answers (bible Teaching)
The Heidelberg Catechism itself - Lord's Day 1's "only comfort in life and in death" and fifty-one more Sundays of it. The 1563 original that half this shelf is footnoting.
The Heidelberg Catechism.., (Paperback)
Singing and Praying at Home
Words for everyone's mouth: two hymnals, McKelvey's liturgies, and Earley's household habits.
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration is the red hymnal a generation of churches and families sang from - hundreds of hymns with readings, in the big-print-of-memory edition. The family altar's songbook anchor.
Pre-Owned The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (Red) (Hardcover) 3010024363 9783010024365
The Psalter Hymnal is the Reformed tradition's songbook - hymns, psalm settings, and the ancient creeds bound for church and home alike. The second voice on the home shelf.
Pre-Owned Psalter Hymnal Worship Edition (Hardcover) by Christian Reformed Church
Douglas McKelvey's Every Moment Holy writes liturgies for ordinary life - meals, griefs, washings-up, and feasts with friends. The book that teaches a family to pray in sentences bigger than their own.
Every Moment Holy Every Moment Holy: New Liturgies for Daily Life: (Over 100 Prayers and Illustrations for Practicing Mindfulness of the P, Book 1, (Hardcover)
Justin Earley's Habits of the Household applies his rule-of-life thinking to family rhythms - waking, mealtimes, screen time, and bedtime liturgies included. The modern practice manual beside the hymnals.
Justin Earley Whitmel: Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms (Paperback)