A few years ago, as I drove, my backseat theologians had this conversation:

3-year-old: “Do you think God is bigger than that tree?”

5-year-old: “Of course. He’s bigger than everything!”

3-year-old: “Well, not everything. If he was bigger than heaven, he’d have to duck everywhere he went.”

I smirked at their thought processes and have continued to marvel as their little minds seek truth and understanding. They are older now, and their questions are harder, deeper, more abstract. These formative years have been a joy and also a lot of work. Their questions often catch me off guard and make me think about God in ways I never have before. What used to be the questions of seedlings are turning into questions of ever-growing tree trunks with roots expanding and branches reaching out.

As I’ve walked through question after question with my kids, I’ve also walked with parents who have little background knowledge of the Bible. New Christians themselves, they wonder how they could possibly plant the seeds of faith in their kids and answer their questions while working out and discovering their own faith.

That is how this blog and this website came about. Whether your role is a Sunday School teacher, a homeschooling parent, or one of the highest callings of a mom or dad that simply longs to impart the truth of Scripture to your kids, I want to come alongside you and help.

I somehow fell into the role of teaching and writing the curriculum for the kids at our small church and over the years have developed resources that I want to share with you. The one that started it all is Come and See: A Kid’s Companion to the Gospel of Mark.

Come and See is a book that allows you to read the Bible, specifically the book of Mark, aloud with your children and have a reference to read after. Written in conversational tone, it helps to summarize, explain, and apply the truth of the gospel. It also involves sticky notes (shown below) to explain hard-to-define words, cultural nuances, places and people in the Bible. It’s split into the same sections of the Gospel of Mark (the NIV), so you can easily divide up your readings to the attention span of your kids.

If you’re looking for a way to study the Bible with your children, a homeschool Bible curriculum for the year, or seeking to understand the Bible for yourself, you can download it for free here.

The work isn’t easy- discipleship never is. But, oh how it is worth the patient endurance of every struggle. When I garden, sowing and weeding throughout the spring and summer, I sometimes grumble, wondering if it’s worth all the work. But when those first fruits begin to show and the crunch of a pea hits my teeth and my tastebuds, the work is well worth it.

A pea pales in comparison to your kids’ faith. So keep planting seeds, keep weeding out lies, and keep watering. We have an incredible God who makes things grow, and he can grow your seedlings into oaks of righteousness.