Let’s talk about it up front and get it over with. If we want to tell Bible stories well—if we want to communicate the beauty and power of the gospel in engaging ways—it takes work. So, yes, your prep time will increase as you learn the art of storytelling. But remember that your kids are worth the extra effort!...

We’ve all been there. Perhaps it was a lecture. Or a conversation on a plane. Or perhaps it was even… gulp… at church. That’s right. I’m talking about listening to a real bore. You know, the person who made you struggle to stay engaged—perhaps even to stay awake. Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to...

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...

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...