Here’s a sample devotion from Serving in His Steps, CTA’s newest gift book designed to express appreciation to volunteers and staff in your church. Pastors, children’s ministers, youth workers, deacons boards, elders, women’s/men’s ministry leaders–whoever you want to encourage or thank for stepping ...
1 st Service 2 through 6th grade Genesis 37:12-36 Joseph Brother’s Sell Him into Slavery Why did Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery? 2 nd service k-4th grade Luke 10:27 Love is God's Law How are we to love God?
This week in Sunday School we were talking about the tendency we sometimes have to compartmentalize our lives. We behave one way at Church, a little differently when we are at work, and still differently when we are hanging around with friends. We may say we have to be mean and tough at work to get ...
I shook the milk jug with my fake milk--cornstarch in water--toward the kids at children's church last Sunday. "The Bible is like milk," I declared. "It nourishes you--it feeds you--so you can grow." The children stared at me waiting for more. They're such sweet children and want to know the truth. ...
Well it has been a very busy weekend. I won’t go into all the details of the week, but I will start with the 4th. On the 4th, James headed to the fireworks stand at 6:30 am. He was there all day long. Ruth had spent the night on the 3rd so she dropped me off at the fireworks stand around 11:00 am. R ...
I’ve been posting quotes from Yours, Jack, a collection of personal letters that C. S. Lewis wrote during his lifetime pertaining to spiritual formation. If you haven’t scrounged up the change to buy the book yet (I’ve borrowed my copy from the library), but would like to do some more reading, Laure ...
Discover What Only You Can Do Each of us have certain gifts, talents & passions in our ministry. There are some things as the leader of a ministry that can best be accomplished by only you. Too often we allow the tyranny of the urgent or the volume of the squeaky wheel drain our time. A few of the t ...
We’ve been talking for the past month or so about the Holy Spirit, and about ways we have to try to capture in language and image the idea of it. Flames, wind, breath, music, doves. We talked about things we cannot see, but can feel, or know to be real. And since before Easter (since the Jesus in th ...