FamilyLife Today® Making God Real to Your Kids - Jonathan & Carrie Cronkite
Jun 16, 2025
Jonathan and Carrie Cronkite bring their passion for family faith practices to the forefront. Jonathan, a former student pastor, shares insights on how children connect with God through parental modeling. Carrie emphasizes the significance of prayer and scripture reading together as a family. They introduce the PRAY acronym and inventive 'prayer rocks' to visualize prayer requests. The conversation also dives into tackling unanswered prayers and fostering a service-oriented mindset to cultivate genuine, lifelong faith in children.
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Parents' Faith Shapes Kids' Faith
- Jonathan Cronkite discovered the key factor in kids' lifelong faith was parents living out faith at home.
- Parents praying together and reading scripture were common denominators in strong faith development.
PRAY Acronym and Prayer Rocks
- Use the PRAY acronym in family prayers: Praise, Repent, Ask for others, Yourself.
- Incorporate prayer rocks as visual reminders to engage kids and connect hearts to God.
Prayer Rocks as Memorials
- Inspired by Joshua 4, the Cronkites use prayer rocks as memorials to God's faithfulness.
- They write prayer requests on rocks then move answered ones to a memorial platter, reinforcing God's work visually.