3 Tips for Redeeming Your Family’s Screen Time

Family Bible Week 2018

“Can I play on your phone?”

—Every kid, pretty much

Our smartphones have more computing power than all of NASA had when they put the first man on the moon. Then why is it that we so easily lean on them as digital pacifiers? On this third day of Family Bible Week, we want to help you start redeeming your family’s screen time. Try at least one of these three tips today:

Help your kids fall in love with God’s Word. Visit the Bible App for Kids companion website, where you can download the interactive app, find printable coloring pages, complete video episodes, and all sorts of activities you can enjoy together, all for free.

Visit BibleAppforKids.com.

Plan a family movie night. Pop some popcorn, gather around the screen, and enjoy the story of Jesus’ life together. (Based on the New Testament book written by Jesus’ disciple John. 183 min.)

Watch “Life of Jesus” together.

Get God’s Word speaking into your family’s everyday life, literally. Already have a daily routine? Great! Then you already have the perfect spot to start listening to the Bible together: over breakfast, driving to school, bedtime… “wherever you are.” To start listening, just select a Bible version that has a speaker icon next to its name.

Listen to the Bible together.

Get my commandments inside you and your children. Talk about them wherever you are: at home or in the street; talk about them from the time you get up until you fall into bed.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

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Thanking Moms, and Family Plans

Family Bible Week 2018

Today we kick off Family Bible Week with two super-easy ways you can begin drawing your family together around God’s Word…right now! Choose either one, or both:

Your friend who always seems to have the best advice… That neighbor with amazing kids… Or even your own mom. Bless all your favorite Moms now with free, beautiful Bible art, with links that let you easily text, email, or post on her social media.

Thank a Mom now.

Start leading your family into the Bible, within minutes. Start a Plan from our Family Bible Week collection, choose With Friends, and select your family members (or send them the link). Yes, it really is that easy!

Start a Plan together now.

Get my commandments inside you and your children. Talk about them wherever you are: at home or in the street; talk about them from the time you get up until you fall into bed.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

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Family Bible Week 2018 Starts May 13

Family Bible Week 2018

Work. School. Handling clothes and meals and transportation — every day. And, let’s not forget somehow managing to get enough sleep. When it feels like life is just happening to your family, how can you begin leading them in the spiritual direction you actually want them to go?

That’s exactly why we created Family Bible Week: to help you get God’s Word speaking life, hope, and wisdom into your family. Beginning Sunday, May 13, we’ll start sharing:

Great Plans that will help your family enjoy Scripture together
Simple Tips that can transform your family — with a love that will inspire other families
Practical Strategies for investing in your family with vision that will impact future generations

Spread the word: Family Bible Week is back!

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😎 Perfect Weeks? Perfect.

Perfect Weeks

Turn Streaks into Perfect Weeks.

Streaks motivate and encourage you to feed yourself every day. It feels great seeing that number climb, doesn’t it? It just grows and grows, each day you open the Bible App to seek God in His Word. But sometimes we miss a day, and then, disaster!

But that’s okay. Update your app, and every time you complete a Streak of seven days from Sunday to Saturday, your Perfect Weeks number will increase by one… and then never go down. Now, even when the inevitable hiccup breaks your current Streak, you won’t lose your record of everything you’ve accomplished so far.

We want to help you build your daily Bible practice, by stringing together longer and longer Streaks. Perfect Weeks let you do that, one week at a time. So update your app now, and start collecting — and keeping — all your Perfect Weeks.

Update Now

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Now Your Children Can Experience the Bible App for Kids in Swahili!

Bible App for Kids

Today, together with our partner OneHope, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Bible App for Kids in Swahili. Now, more children than ever have the opportunity to enjoy a Bible experience all their own.

Switching between languages is easy, right in the app’s Settings:

Make sure you’ve updated your app to the most current release.
Open the app and tap the gear icon () to open Settings.
Tap Language and select the one you want.

The audio will now play in that language, and any text will appear in that language, too!

Please help us celebrate this great news!

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About the Bible App for Kids

Developed in partnership with OneHope, the Bible App for Kids is from YouVersion, makers of the Bible App. Designed to give children a delight-filled Bible experience all their own, the Bible App for Kids has already been installed on over 22 million Apple, Android, and Kindle devices, and it’s always completely free. Kids from all over the world are now enjoying the Bible App for Kids, in 37 languages — now including Swahili!