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Kids Ask: Does God Get Sad?

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By Aaron Rothermel, Brett McCracken Verified, Jim Davis, Michael Graham
| The Gospel Coalition Verified
You’re working in a classroom of first graders, and you notice Hannah is sitting by herself, playing with a carpet square’s fraying edge. You approach Hannah and say, “Hi Hannah, how are you this morning?” “Oh, I don’t know,” she replies, “Fine, I guess.” She pauses for a beat, and then says, “Teacher, does God get sad?” Advertise on TGC How should you answer Hannah? There are simple truths you can tell her. You can tell her that God doesn’t get sad like we do because he’s different from us.
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Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission: Practical Strategies for Discipling the Next Generation

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By Jared Kennedy, Aaron Rothermel, Jonathan Cheek, Nathan Shannon
| Themelios
Written by Jared Kennedy Reviewed By Aaron Rothermel The terrain of Children’s ministry with its many conferences, resources, and philosophies will bewilder the uninitiated. Many throw up their hands, pick a curriculum they like, find someone to run the ministry, and are relieved as long as the classrooms have enough volunteers. But is your children’s ministry on mission? Jared Kennedy’s Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission will help you answer that question.
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Does the value of children depend on their usefulness? | ERLC

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By Erik Reed, Brian Dembowczyk, Chelsea Patterson Sobolik, Aaron Rothermel
| ERLC - The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
“Kids are cute but they’re not really eco-friendly.” This is the title of a troubling 2017 article making the rounds, and making waves, on the internet. With an image of a smiling family of five pasted front-and-center, oddly enough, Caroline Mortimer spends the entirety of her allotted space comparing having children to other “carbon emitting activities” like eating meat, driving a car, and traveling by plane. The implication is that having many kids is irresponsible and harmful to the planet.
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