For 4 years our Kid’s Ministry has been writing a mid-week curriculum that has a month-long focus on “Eternity”. And every year we address the topic of heaven & hell with the kids. We just finished our last lesson on Eternity in this 4-year journey, so this comes a little late…but I greatly desire your [...]
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More than alarming statistics found on the ChurchRelevance blog, by Kent Shaffer. To read the article, click HERE. To those of you who read it, here are the 2 great questions: - At what age should we as a church begin approaching tough topics? - What do you think is the best way to teach tough topics to students? “Only the obedient believe.” -Dietrich Boenhoeffer I shared that quote in a sermon over a year ago, and I haven’t been able to escape how simple yet powerful it is since that time. It’s a quick phrase that carries a lot of power for children as well as adults. Faith in Christ is only realized when met [...] It’s officially an epidemic. Steve Carell’s sentence-add-on-dirty-joke-thing from his show The Office has officially reached an all-time low with me personally. And it’s everywhere. I’ve recently overheard some elementary aged kids in my ministry saying “TWSS”, of course the initials to the dirty joke. If I’m honest, and you’re honest, we’ve all had at least one [...] I love the rich adjectives in The Message Bible. Check out Matthew 7:1-5, one of my favorites: “Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults – unless of course you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging.” Boomeranging! I love that word. And it is so powerful when speaking [...] |
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