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Allow the Children
Posted by danieljkoren on June 24, 2011 in Devotional | ∞
“[Allow] little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:14). Our world likes to shuffle kids off to the side. We institutionalize them into social silos like calves in a feedlot. We stick them in daycare with managed schedules along side other savages. We […]
Tags: children, church, family, kids, praise, singing, worship
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