With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day just around the corner, we’re entering the season of honoring our parents. It’s gotten me to thinking about the times in Scripture when the parent/child relationship is highlighted. There’s one that’s rather famous. In fact, if I were to ask you “Which of the 10 Commandments comes … [Read more...]
God’s Presence is a Present
It’s an unlikely moment from a power-hungry pagan king, a moment that gives us great insight into the very nature of God and into long-asked questions about suffering. We’re all familiar with the story in the book of Daniel of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—the “three Hebrew children”—as they’ve come to be known. … [Read more...]
Something Big and Cool in Youth Ministry
You know those times in youth ministry when you have at least a handful of teens who want to go deeper, or group of students who are curious about the Bible? If you haven’t had those times, you will. Teens are always hungrier than we think…both spiritually, and of course, physically. In fact, this spiritual hunger … [Read more...]
Replacing Judas as a Model for Ministry: Three Things You Can Do
Right about now I tend to run a parallel calendar in my mind with the events of Easter. It usually starts during the Passion Week with its daily, play-by-play account of events. It’s then easy to keep that calendar momentum rolling through, and even beyond, the Easter season since events are so well keyed into timeframes in the … [Read more...]
Identifying with the Disciples’ Post-Easter Stress
Easter Sunday is typically the highest attended Sunday in a church’s year. Any guess for the lowest attended Sunday? Yep, the Sunday following Easter. That’s probably NOT the effect that the Resurrection is to have on us. In fact, it’s to have quite the opposite. And in Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances we get a sense of how … [Read more...]
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