Hope and Joy: Bedtime Bible Meditations for Children
A meditative evening podcast for children ages 5-12 years-old and the whole family. Each week explores a spiritual theme - what does it mean to children? what does the Bible say about it? - and ends with a meditation and evening prayer that encourages children to relax into sleep surrounded by God's love. Written and produced by Joyce Chanay and Hope Newhouse, Sunday School parents and parishioners of The American Cathedral in Paris. Featuring music by the Choirs of The American Cathedral in Paris.
Episodes
24 episodes
Christmas Special 2021
Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!Jesus has come, our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace! God would do absolutely anything and everything just to be close to us. Jesus came as a little baby because God wan...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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11:39
Advent: Great Joy
In the fields that dark night, angels appeared and brought something important, “good news that will cause great joy for all the people”. News of the kind of joy that brightens the darkest night and fills the hearts of everyone around. Pure joy...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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9:25
Advent: I Bring You Good News!
In this second episode for Advent, we talk about the good news from the angels to the shepherds. What good news do we have? What does the Bible tell us about giving and sharing? This Advent, we are waiting for Jesus, God’s gift to a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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9:29
Advent: Do Not Be Afraid
“For I am the Lord your God, who says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” In this first episode for Advent, we talk about our fears. What are you afraid of? What does the Bible tell us about fear? As it starts to get dark, rememb...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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8:22
Do People Who Aren't Christians Go to Heaven?
In our series « What do we know ? » we’ve been asking people who study the Bible to help answer your questions about God and Jesus. Today, we are asking The Rev. Michael Rusk to help us think about the question“Do people who aren’t Ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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9:49
If Jesus Isn't Dead, Where is He? Can I Meet Him?
In our series « What do we know ? » we’ve been asking people who study the Bible to help answer your questions about God and Jesus. Today, we asked The Rev. Stephanie Burette to help us think about the question “If Jesus isn’t dead, where...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:01
If God Loves Us, Why Do Bad Things Happen?
The deepest belief that we Christians hold is that God IS love and that God loves us and the whole world. Today, on World Refugee Day, we are asking The Rev. Austin Rios to help us think about the difficult question“If God loves us, why d...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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11:03
We Hear "Our Father": Is God Our Parent?
What we call people says a lot about what they mean to us and how we feel about them. Often times, we have special names for the people who are the closest to us. The same is true for God. In church we hear "Our Father", we've asked...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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9:39
Can God Understand Me in Any Language?
We know you all have a lot questions about God and Jesus and the church! We do too! Welcome to our new series "What do we know ?" where we get some guest writers to answer your important questions.Today, on Pentecost Sunday, we are aski...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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10:35
What Do We Know?
We know you all have a lot questions about God and Jesus and the church! We do too! In this episode we start by talk about what we do know, especially what we learned from Bishop Mark Edington at Easter: God loves us so much and wants us to lov...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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9:54
Easter Sunday: God's Easter Promise
Easter is the biggest deal of our whole church year - even bigger than Christmas. But why? Because at Easter Jesus creates a new relationship between us and God and between us and each other. And Jesus makes us a promise. No matter what, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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9:49
Palm Sunday : Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Sometimes when we’ve done something bad, or when someone has hurt us, it can be so bad, that we feel like EVERYTHING is bad, and we cannot see anything good anymore. But the good news about forgiveness is that, while it can be hard, it gives co...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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7:28
Lent 3 for Families : Practicing Lent as a Family with Traci Smith
This week is a very special interview episode with Traci Smith, an ordained minister, mother of three, and author from Chicago, USA, with whom we had a conversation about practicing Lent as a family.This episode is ve...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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15:55
Lent 2: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
In James 1:22 we hear, “Do what God’s teachings say; do not just listen, but practice what God teaches us.” Lent is a time of getting closer to God, a special time of thinking about how we live our lives, and if we are acting in ways that...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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9:17
Lent 1: Setting the Table
“Jesus often slipped away to quiet places so that he could pray.” -Luke 5:16 Have you ever tried to listen to a story, while the television is on or while someone is talking in the next room? It can be hard to focus. During Lent, Chri...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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8:28
The First Day
God named the light “day” and the darkness “night.” Evening passed, and morning came. This was the first day.Every passage from evening into morning, God presents us with new possibilities, new opportunities, to seek God in all ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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8:00
And God saw that the light was good
As soon as God created the light, God saw that the light was good. Even when things are hard and we see the bad things that are happening in the world, this reminds us that there is goodness because what God creates is good.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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8:31
Let There Be Light
Then God said, “Let there be light!” - Genesis 1:3Darkness can appear in different forms, like the nasty characters in stories or fears that make us forget God. But as it was in the beginning, light outshines darkness.&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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7:25
In the Beginning
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” - Genesis 1:1In this new year, we explore the beginning of the Bible and the creation of light in this new January series. A new year is a time to celebrate. It...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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6:38
Hope and Joy's Christmas Special
"For a child has been born for us" - MERRY CHRISTMAS! CHRIST IS BORN!A festive episode with Christmas greetings from listeners around the world, reflections on Christmas traditions, though they are different for many of us this year, and mu...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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12:17
Advent Four: Love
"Our love must be true love. And we should show that love by what we do." 1 John 3. In the fourth and last week of advent, we ask the children "what is love?", hear what the Bible says about it and practice a relaxation technique where we...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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9:00
Advent Three: Joy
"Crying may last for a night. But joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5 For the third week of Advent, we meditate on the theme of Joy. We talk about the darkness of winter and of sadness and the light and joy of Jesus at Christmas. Tomorrow is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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9:39
