I taught teen Sunday school the whole decade of the 1990s. During the week, these kids would watch the trashy TV talk shows when they got home from school. I…
The Ten Commandments Will Not Budge
Have You Noticed These Lies?
My friend Diane Stortz works hard to help kids get to know God—and get to know him well! Check out her materials. Her newsletter had linked to Elizabeth Urbanowicz being…
Lectio Divina
From several years back, lectio divina was pushed in small groups as THE way to read the Bible. The term is Latin and means “divine reading.” Groups may each be…
They Want Our Kids
At the 2022 International Conference on Missions, my sister and I led a workshop titled “They Want Our Kids.” Here’s the handout we used. The handout is a limited bullet-point…
“Humbug and Chicanery”
H. C. Leupold’s old commentary on Isaiah mentioned the ancient people’s futile reliance on mediums, sorcerers, and the like. Leupold slammed all that as “manifold forms of humbug and chicanery”…