resource library
Explore our resource library to find helpful articles, devotionals, podcasts, training, and more to help you grow in your faith and prepare to lead a session of The Gospel Project.
December 30, 2013
Thinking About Switching to The Gospel Project?
In late September of 2013, I was getting ready for my first weekend teaching our new children’s ministry curriculum. After several years of using a curriculum produced by another organization, we’d finally made the switch to The Gospel Project. But it wasn’t without a bit of anxiety. For years, the teachers, with rare exception, would take the biblical text...
November 20, 2013
Making the Christ Connection for Kids
One of the great features of The Gospel Project for Kids is its chronological plan through the Bible. Kids will study stories from Genesis to Revelation over three years. They will learn how familiar (and not-so-familiar) Bible stories fit together as part of a bigger picture—God’s plan to save people from sin. Each session contains a Christ Connection, a few...
October 2, 2013
What We Need Most Is Jesus!
This is a guest post by Jeff Hutchings, the Pastor of Family Ministries at The Journey (Tower Grove) in St. Louis. Among others things, my parenting generation is known for doting on our children. Multiple blogs and sermons regularly chide parents for indulging kids with things. Even though parents have good intentions by giving their kids what they didn’t...
September 25, 2013
"Closing the Pharisee Training School" by John Murchison
John Murchison has been the Director of Children’s Ministry at The Austin Stone for 8 years. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters. You can follow him on Twitter here. I was about three years into my career in children’s ministry when I realized something was fundamentally wrong. We said all the right things—that we...
September 20, 2013
"Teaching My Kids the Bigger Story" by Angela Suh
This is a guest post from Angela Suh. Angela lives in Austin, TX. She is wife to Halim, a pastor at the Austin Stone Community Church, and mom to three fun and crazy kids, Malachi (5), Evie (4) and Moses (2). You can read more from her at suhangela.wordpress.com. From my childhood, I remember listening to the Bible as a...
August 19, 2013
Why Study the Doctrine of Humanity?
This post is by John Hammett (Professor of Systematic Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.), and is adapted from Hammett’s chapter in A Theology for the Church (Second Edition, Forthcoming). To see the entire “Bearing God’s Image” series click here. Most people at one time or another pause to consider the enigma of human nature. Humans are capable of great acts of love,...