If you teach The Gospel Project for Preschool, you may have noticed that there are three lines of dialogue in the “Watch or Tell the Bible story” of the Large Group Leader section that sound virtually the same every week. It always goes something like this: Do you know why the Bible is the most important book there is?...

I grew up in a home with a formal dining room that we rarely used. My family ate most of our meals around the kitchen table or hunkered down around the coffee table in the living room on Sunday evenings after church. The dining room was only used for special occasions, like Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. In fact, my...

When I was a new believer, one of the biggest mistakes I made was trying to jump right into reading the Prophets. Not that reading them was a mistake, of course. My problem was I had no idea what to do with them. What did these books that seem so filled with judgment and doom, strange imagery, and painful...

It’s that time of year. The dog days of summer are over, and the time has come to get back into our routines and rhythms. Some churches have already had promotion Sunday, and preschoolers and kids are enjoying their new classes while others churches wait to promote until September. No matter when promotion happens, a new church year is...

My two-year-old son, Elijah, came running to me as I entered his Sunday School classroom. In his hand was a picture he had scribbled on of Moses standing before a burning bush. The week’s main point was written across the bottom: God is holy. Elijah held out the page for me and then rushed down the hallway to find...

July is birthday month for me. My family did not make a big deal about birthdays growing up. We rarely had parties. When my brother or I had a birthday, we would set out from our small town in rural Georgia to the big city of Atlanta where we would go to ShowBiz pizza and Toys R Us. (For...