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...

Moralism characterized most of my early Christian life. I lived a number of years with a constant sense of guilt that I did not measure up. I praise God for the people He brought into my life to show me that no, I do not measure up, but Jesus does. God sent Jesus to live the life I couldn’t...

Have you ever noticed that whenever people are talking about evil they tend to use “murder” as a sort of “pinnacle of sin?” We compare our actions and responses to this imaginary bar we’ve set to make sure we are always OK. The person caught stealing might say, “It’s not like I killed someone!” The person who awkwardly crosses...

Every since my church started using The Gospel Project in our children’s ministry, I’ve consistently been amazed by how easy it makes it for teachers and kids to connect the message of the Old Testament to Christ—and how challenging it can be for all of us when we start really thinking about what this means for us as we...