Kids Songs that make a positive difference: Holy Oatmeal

What are you doing for family devotions? Part 001

January 14, 2011 Book Review

Want to know what others are doing for family devotions? Pastor Sam Shim from the Gospel Prism Blog and pastor of The Wellspring Church (as far as I can tell) had a cool review of books they have been using for family devotions. He makes a great statement I think is worth remembering, Let me [...]

Seeds Family Worship: A Must For Your Family

January 13, 2011 Family

Want to help your kids memorize the Bible? Seeds Family Worship is an awesome resource for your family. In fact, Seeds is the inspiration behind HolyOatmeal. When I was toying with the idea of putting together kid songs that would help me teach my family God’s truth I found Seeds Family Worship. Seeds began when [...]

Tim Hawkins: your kids favorite songs done by your favorite stars

January 13, 2011 Fun Stuff

I Love Tim Hawkins: If you haven’t seen Tim Hawkins live yet, you are missing out. Megan and I got to see him live at the Tempe Improv in AZ a while back. It really was great. I’ve added some affiliate links to some of his DVDs on Amazon. If you just google Tim Hawkins [...]

One way cool kids album: Jesus Came To Save Sinners

January 13, 2011 Family Worship

Amazon.com Widgets This is a great kids album from The Village Church in the Dallas Texas area. Great strong Biblical content and high production quality. There are adults leading with kids singing along and the messages are pretty straightforward. Great theology and not sounding at all “less than” because it is a kids album. Check [...]

Top 5 Reasons I Suck At Parenting: and what to do about it.

December 18, 2010 Family

The Tall Order: Here at HolyOatmeal.com I am trying to get a hold of some ideas, thoughts, resources etc. which we can all benefit from. Things which will frankly help us to help our kids really want to follow Jesus all the days of their lives. That’s quite a tall order, but it seems like [...]

Being A Dad Is So Much Fun!

December 15, 2010 Family

At least that’s what I keep telling myself. I am kidding. I really do love being a dad. It is one of those true blessings in life. One of my goals for the upcoming year is to slow down enough so I don’t miss out on the things which really matter. I don’t want to [...]

Students Revolt!

December 12, 2010 Homeschool

As homeschoolers of 3 of our 6 kids, we don’t have the usual school presentations throughout the year. We team up with other like minded parents through group classes and co-ops to give our kids a chance to prove how much better they are than the other children…I mean share in a wonderful experience of [...]

Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk -DAD!

December 9, 2010 Family

The cliche’ is a nice reminder that stuff happens in life and it is not worth getting too upset about simple mistakes. I am so quick to tell my kids they are overreacting when they freak out about something so small and seemingly stupid. I realized though when one of my kids did spill some [...]

New Song: Colossians 3:12-13

November 30, 2010 Free Song

Here is the latest Scripture Song a message about forgiveness. (Lyrics Below) Click HERE to download Chord Chart Colossians 3:12-13 Col 3:12-13 Music by Matthew Casteel Words from NIV Verse 1 Therefore as God’s chosen people Holy and dearly loved Clothe yourselves with compassion Kindness humility Gentleness and patience Chorus: Bear with each other and [...]

The Tree Light Miracle

November 29, 2010 Uncategorized

Megan and I have been talking about helping our kids (and us too) learn to see God’s hand at work all around us. Just yesterday Megan was setting up the pre-lit Christmas tree (I know blasphemy) when after it had been up and decorated for several hours, the whole middle section of lights went out. [...]

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