Treasure Digest: A Family Affair
Make sure your whole family is invovled in the excitement leading up to the Feast of Tabernacles.
As we plan and prepare for the Feast of Tabernacles, we should plan on how we can best praise God during this time. Praising God can and should be a family affair. Help your children share their talents by rehearsing the children's choir music with them so that they are well prepared and able to praise God in song at the Feast.
All ages can make a joyful noise during the song service, regardless of musical talent or the lack thereof. Encourage children to participate and compliment those whom you notice singing out during the song service.
Even those too young to read can learn the words to many of the hymns if you sing them together occasionally as a family. Deuteronomy 6:5-7 is a good reminder of the importance God puts on teaching your children how to love God. Verse 2 also includes fearing God as a benefit.
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Gary Petty
Gary Petty is a 1978 graduate of Ambassador College with a BS in mass communications. He worked for six years in radio in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was ordained a minister in 1984 and has served congregations in Longview and Houston Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Austin and Waco, Texas. He presently pastors United Church of God congregations in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Jackson, Tennessee.
Gary says he's "excited to be a part of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom over the airwaves," and "trusts the material presented will make a helpful difference in people's lives, bringing them closer to a relationship with their heavenly Father."
