For those who have babies or young children, I'm sure you are aware that family worship needs to be somewhat short. The challenge I face as the husband/father is saying something short but meaningful since I don't have the time and kid-attention-span to dig out and read a couple pages of commentary during worship. However, I don't feel like I often have something edifying/meaningful of my own to say in commenting on the Bible text we just read. If I had no resources, family worship would probably look like this..."Gen 1, God made everything"..."Gen 2, man is made in God's image", etc. I mean, that amount of content can be sufficient for young children, but not so much for older children or adults in providing more age-appropriate food for thought. I'm sure I'm not the only one who sometimes feels at a loss for what to teach the family during family worship...does anyone have any practical advice?
Second question. So, before, I've tried to solve my question above by getting a study Bible for family worship, but the notes are all scattered and not a coherent whole for reading. What I think would be IDEAL would be a commentary on the entire Bible in the same format as the "365 days with Calvin" or other daily devotionals where it has a short devotion on each page for that day, except it would be per chapter. I think it would be IDEAL to have a whole Bible commentary consisting of one page with a few paragraphs as just a short devotion on each Bible chapter. Is anyone aware if anything like this exists? (Or maybe even reading the chapter summary some commentators provide could be beneficial) Is there a condensed Matthew Henry commentary published?
Thank you!
Second question. So, before, I've tried to solve my question above by getting a study Bible for family worship, but the notes are all scattered and not a coherent whole for reading. What I think would be IDEAL would be a commentary on the entire Bible in the same format as the "365 days with Calvin" or other daily devotionals where it has a short devotion on each page for that day, except it would be per chapter. I think it would be IDEAL to have a whole Bible commentary consisting of one page with a few paragraphs as just a short devotion on each Bible chapter. Is anyone aware if anything like this exists? (Or maybe even reading the chapter summary some commentators provide could be beneficial) Is there a condensed Matthew Henry commentary published?
Thank you!