Tag: Yom Kippur

Now Available: Your Free Comprehensive Biblical Feasts & Sabbath Family Study Guide!

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Hello, friends! 

If you’ve been following along with my journey lately, you know how much joy it brings me to create resources that help families walk out their faith with intention. Today, I am absolutely thrilled to share a brand-new, completely free resource with you: the Comprehensive Biblical Feasts & Sabbath Family Study Guide! 

Whether you are completely new to celebrating the Appointed Times or have been keeping them for years, my prayer is that this guide serves as a welcoming, stress-free tool for your home. 

A Gentle Reminder for the Journey

As we open up these studies together, I want to reiterate something very important to me: I am not perfect in my knowledge of these feasts. I am a student of the Word just like you, simply drawing from the best sources and understandings available to me at this time. 

I want to lovingly encourage you to do your own research as a family. Use this guide as a helpful starting point, but always test everything against the Scriptures! I also ask that you use your own discretion when choosing which activities, discussions, or crafts to participate in throughout the guide. Your family’s walk is unique, so please feel free to adapt, skip, or modify anything to best fit your home and convictions. 

What is Inside This Free Guide?

I wanted this comprehensive guide to be a beautiful, easy-to-use roadmap for your family. Inside, you’ll find: 

  • Sabbath Foundations: Simple, meaningful ways to welcome the weekly Sabbath into your home with peace and joy. 
  • The Biblical Feasts: A comprehensive overview covering the heart, history, and spiritual significance of the Appointed Times. 
  • Family-Focused Activities: Bite-sized learning, discussion prompts, and practical ideas designed to engage hearts of all ages. 
  • Completely Free to Download: No strings attached—just a gift from my heart to your home to support you on this walk! 

Grab Your Free Copy Today!

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Ten Days of Returning to God: A Children’s Devotional

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The days between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur provide a meaningful opportunity for families to slow down, listen to God, and prepare their hearts together.

Yom Teruah is associated with the sound of trumpets—a call to awaken and pay attention. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, reminds us of our need for forgiveness and points us toward the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.

Ten Days of Returning to God is a simplified children’s devotional designed to help families explore these truths together. Each day includes a short Bible reading, a child-friendly lesson, a discussion question, a simple activity, and a prayer.

Throughout the ten days, children will learn what it means to:

  • Listen for God’s direction
  • Ask God to search their hearts
  • Turn away from wrong choices
  • Confess their sins honestly
  • Apologize and make things right
  • Forgive others
  • Show God’s love through kindness
  • Draw near to God through Jesus
  • Trust in Christ’s sacrifice
  • Begin again with God
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Ten Days of Returning to God: A Devotional Journey from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur

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Hello friends,

There are seasons when God calls us to keep moving forward, faithfully tending the work He has placed before us. There are also seasons when He calls us to become still—to examine our hearts, mend what has been broken, and return to Him.

Lately God has been calling me to share what I’ve been learning with others. I won’t pretend to be any kind of expert so I do encourage you to do your own research whenever you may have questions or doubts about things. My biggest reason for sharing is that observing the feasts have allowed me to become close to GOD, delve deeper in HIS WORD, and they allow me to remember HIS PROMISES.

The period from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur offers a beautiful opportunity for this kind of quiet reflection. This devotional can be done by anyone at any time though!

Yom Teruah, sometimes called the Feast of Trumpets, begins with the biblical image of a trumpet blast. In Scripture, the sound of a trumpet could announce a gathering, warn of danger, prepare people for action, or call God’s people to attention. It was a sound that could not easily be ignored.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, comes ten days later. It is a solemn day associated with repentance, cleansing, and restoration before God.

Together, these days form a meaningful journey: awakening, examining, returning, confessing, forgiving, and resting in God’s mercy.

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”
—James 4:8

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Introducing the Fall Feast Planning Guides (Plus a Peek at What’s Coming Next)

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Shalom, friends! 

The changing of the seasons always brings a special sense of anticipation, especially as we approach the Autumn months. I am so excited to share something I have been working on close to my heart: the Fall Feast Planning Guides are officially ready for you! 

My hope is that these guides bring clarity, peace, and joy to your home as you prepare to celebrate the Appointed Times. 

A Quick Heart-to-Heart Before You Begin

Before you dive in, I want to share a quick, transparent note from my heart to yours. I am not perfect in my knowledge of these feasts. Like many of you, I am on a lifelong journey of learning and growing. The information, schedules, and ideas in these guides are simply drawn from the best sources and understandings I currently have available to me. 

Because of this, I want to encourage you to do your own research. Let these guides be a helpful jumping-off point, but dive into the scriptures and history for yourself! Additionally, please use your own discretion when choosing which activities to participate in throughout the guide. Every family is unique, and you should always choose what aligns best with your home and your conviction. 

Sabbath & Biblical Feasts Resources

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Biblical Feasts: Day of Atonement Resources

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Please note that I am NOT an expert on the BIBLE or on any of the BIBLICAL FEASTS, but I know others are feeling led to celebrate the FEASTS as we are, so I am just sharing what we have been learning. This post, like many of my posts, is a helpful reminder for myself and a place to put links that I might otherwise forget about.

Who should celebrate the Seven Biblical Feasts?

Well, that is a debate among many, and I have been doing TONS of research. During that research, I read somewhere that we are not commanded to celebrate them, but we are invited to celebrate them as Jesus did. How would you feel if you had invited someone to celebrate with you and they didn’t show up?

First and foremost, I would say that you need to pray and see if GOD is leading you to celebrate… you should pray about any big changes in direction before heading down a path that life may be leading you down.

Holy Days vs. Holidays

Why celebrate the Day of Atonement?

Secondly, you should do your own research about Sukkot. Find out the who, the what, the when, the where. the why, and the how… all of it! Then you can decide if and how you want to celebrate it. You can start by reading through Leviticus 23.

As I mentioned before, we have already been invited, so I definitely want to celebrate… it would be rude to keep ignoring the invite, and if we don’t go, then HE might invite someone else in our place! This is an exciting time, and I want to show GOD how thankful we are for ALL that HE has blessed us with.

This is also known as Yom Kippur of the Day of Cleansing, we all need to stand before God and confess our sins… we need to remember that no one can be perfect and we all make mistakes. Christ died for us so that our sins would be forgiven… HE was the perfect SACRIFICE.

WHY NOT CELEBRATE?

I can’t think of any reason not to celebrate.

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