At last, we get to what people think of first when it comes to storytelling: using your voice to tell the story.  Before we do though, you might want to take a few minutes and watch Maegan and Tyler tell a Bible story paying attention to how they use their voices. Maegan telling a preschool Bible story Tyler telling a...

Sarah Coleman, Dir. of Children’s Ministry and Family Discipleship at Northstar Church in Knoxville, TN, shares how the lives of both the kids and the teachers who serve them are being changed as they see Christ in all of Scripture: Have a story you want to share? Email us or leave a comment. 

Whenever I have an opportunity to teach, I gravitate toward passages of lament. Maybe it’s because I spent too much time listening to fashionably sad music in the 1990s. Whatever the case, it’s the psalms of lament that capture my attention. The cries of “How long, O Lord?” sometimes speak to my heart more deeply than the shouts of...

Check out this statistic from Maxine Bersch: It has been said that sixty-five percent of the story is carried out by nonverbal means. Only thirty-five percent of the meaning is conveyed by the words! — Maxine Bersch, Storytelling in a Nutshell: A Primer for Storytellers in Christian Education (Genevox Music, 1998), 101. Think about that for a moment! For most of...

My wife’s brother recently bought a headset that allows him to slide his smartphone into it to experience virtual reality environments and games using apps on the phone. He was over at our house the other day so I slid on the headset to try it out. In a split second, I was fully immersed into a music video where...

Wrath is not necessarily a bad thing. Think about it. In any epic, the good guys win precisely because they have poured out wrath on the bad guys. That’s part of telling a good story. The hero is victorious and the enemy is defeated. Good wins. Evil loses. Throughout the story of the Bible and of history, God, the...