Incorporating Faith into Our Daily Lives

Here's how we incorporate faith into our children's lives each and every day.

It's all too easy to let our busy lives crowd out faith when it comes to our daily lives. Since starting homeschooling our two sons, I've really had to be intentional about incorporating our faith into our lives each day.

If you'd like to see what a typical homeschool week looks like, check out Our Homeschool Schedule (2024-2025)!

Have a Set Time to Read the Bible Daily (or Almost Daily)

If you've checked out my schedule post for this year, you'll see that most mornings, we do read a Bible story or what we label as "Church History" most mornings. This most often happens over breakfast. Last year, we read through the Old Testament in a children's Bible storybook. This year, we are reading the New Testament from the same Bible storybook, and because the New Testament is significantly shorter, we've also added in "Church History." For us, church history has been reading a chapter from one of Simonetta Carr's "Christian Biographies for Young Readers." We started with Augustine of Hippo. We are currently reading about Anselm of Canterbury. These books have been a wonderful way to introduce famous theologians, church fathers, and reformers in a way that my kids (ages 6 and 8) and easily understand and even somewhat relate to.

I think a key here is that this almost daily reading takes place over breakfast. It happens during a task we do every day. It also doesn't take any extra time since my kids do have to eat breakfast every morning.

Do Memorize Verses

Following breakfast most mornings, my kids recite memory verses as we clean up the kitchen. I never memorized verses as a kid, and I love memorizing them with my kids now. I hope this gives them a storehouse of language straight from the Bible in their memories. (In addition to this, my kids copy the memory verses they are working on memorizing as their handwriting work—usually about two mornings a week. I've found this to be an easy way to help them memorize while also working on something else!)

Use Christian Homeschool Curricula

I'm not saying you need to overhaul your curriculum choices. I'm also not saying you need to choose all Christian curricula. However, if you do have a few choices that are openly Christian and relate what your child is learning back to God, that can be an easy way to make faith more integrated into your daily lives.

My kids have been enjoying their astronomy course by Journey Homeschool Academy. I love that is it actually a rigorous science curriculum that has found a balance of remaining neutral in terms of varying views while also pointing what my kids learn to God.

Another choice we use is The Good and the Beautiful for language arts. While it's not our main language arts curriculum, I do pull quite a bit from it. I like that it promotes wholesome, Christian values. While the founder, Jenny Phillips, is Mormon, I have not found anything in their curricula or books to be contrary to Christian beliefs. 

We also incorporate Gather Round for history and science unit studies from time to time. These also incorporate scripture and Christian beliefs, stories, and values throughout.

Finally, we use Memoria Press for Latin and for some literature. We also use their discussion guide for our Bible stories. For Latin, my older son really enjoyed learning and memorizing prayers in Latin. While their literature isn't necessarily "Christian," their choices are wholesome and classic. I can tell they really look at what character traits and values are being highlighted in the chapter books they choose.