Sunday, May 17, 2026 · Resources · Deuteronomy 6:4-9

How Do You Pass Faith to Your Kids?

When a religious leader asked Jesus to name the greatest commandment out of hundreds, he reached for the Great Shema in Deuteronomy 6. Pastor James Drake, preaching from the field during his current Army Chaplain deployment, walks through what it means to love God with everything — heart, soul, mind, and strength — and how that love becomes a daily rhythm passed on to the next generation. Not a Sunday-morning event. Not a Pinterest-perfect family devotion. Just sit, walk, lie down, rise — the ordinary moments of an ordinary day, woven through with God's word. And when you fail at it (and you will), apologize in front of your kids. Because the Shema isn't a moral self-improvement plan. It's what Jesus came to fulfill.

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Scripture

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (ESV)

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Mark 12:29-30 (ESV)

Jesus answered, 'The most important is, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength."'

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