The Very Best Hands-On Kinda Dangerous Family Devotions by Tim Shoemaker

Do family devotions leave your family yawning from boredom? Good News. There is a new devotional on the market that will keep everyone awake and interested. The Very Best Hands-On, Kinda Dangerous Family Devotions by Tim Shoemaker offers a whole new style of family devotions.

The Very Best, Hands-On Kinda Dangerous Family Devotions has 52 devotions in it. Shoemaker encourages families to do one a week in the first chapter called, Ending the Stop and Start Syndrome. In this chapter Shoemaker offers 14 helpful tips to make these devotions more successful in your family.  After this chapter, each devotional comes with a supply list of things you will need, advance prep info, how to make the activity successful, how to teach the lesson, and how to sum up the lesson. These devotions are definitely out of the ordinary. The first lesson uses a leaf blower and toilet paper. Some of the lessons do take more supplies than others. Shoemaker offers tips on how to cut costs or how to share with other families and more good ideas to make them work. Other lessons just take a few easily found items to get the point across.

I like the idea of creating object lessons that also create memories and help the whole family learn something in the process--family members of all ages. The Very Best, Hands-On Kinda Dangerous Family Devotions does have a just a couple lessons that I am not sure we would feel comfortable doing. However, as my husband and I talked about those lessons, we felt we could creatively alter them a little to work for our family. I think Shoemaker would be all for that. The main thing is to create an object lesson that is fun and unforgettable for your family and to deliver a spiritual lesson that will stick with every one as a result. I think that is all a great idea. This book is full of some cool object lessons and spiritual truths as a result. I would encourage families to give it a try. I also think they offer good ideas to use as object lessons with youth group too.

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