How Do You Pass Faith to Your Kids? - Deut 6:4-9

How do you pass faith to your kids when life won't slow down?Pastor James Drake — preaching from the field during his current Army Chaplain deployment — answers one of the most pastoral questions parents ask: how do we hand on a living faith in a culture engineered to crowd it out?Drawing on Deuteronomy 6:4-9 — the Great Shema — and Jesus' citation of it in Mark 12:29-30 as the greatest commandment, this message walks through three movements: who actually sits on the throne of our hearts, what it means to love God with everything, and how that love becomes a rhythm woven into ordinary family life — sitting, walking, lying down, rising. The sermon lands not on "try harder" but on the better news of a Savior who fulfilled the Shema we never could and writes it on our hearts from the inside out."Faith isn't an event you perform. It's a rhythm you live."— Preached at Christchurch Miami on May 17, 2026.