We’ve all done it. Cringed when someone asks our child what they learned at church today, and their slow response is, “I don’t know.” If anyone should know that the lesson was about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, it should be your children! How did they miss the fiery furnace you constructed out of a refrigerator […]

Remember that amazing game where you put red or black checkers into a vertical plastic game board in an attempt to get four in a row? I always tried to be super sneaky and work on a row unobtrusively, but I didn’t win very often! I recently saw a giant version of the game in […]

See if you can relate to one of these scenarios: Jill is at it again. She has all the kids in her small group gathered around her, and she’s showing them a video on her cell phone. You walk by and catch a glimpse of gorillas and . . . wait! Is that a gun? […]

I love this time of year! In the South, it means whispers of possible snow and shouts of joy when school is closed as the first flakes hit the pavement. In my life, it means looking back at the last twelve months to see what helped me become more like Jesus, and what pulled me away […]

It’s easy to remember that what you do matters right after a big season like the one we just finished. You can probably name five things very easily that you are celebrating from the past few weeks—things like people beginning a relationship with Christ, families attending who you haven’t seen in awhile, or programs that proclaimed […]

I will never forget how I felt that day after picking up my older son from his preschool class at church. Tears dripped off my chin despite my desperate efforts to hold them back. I had just listened as the volunteer listed out every offense my son had committed during the past hour. I heard […]

Glue is sticky.  Really sticky. If you’ve ever gotten it on your fingers as you’re helping little ones complete a project, you’ve experienced the tenacious way it holds things together. (Sometimes your fingers!) This past week I spent several hours going through the preschool rooms, cleaning, organizing, taking inventory. One of the things on my […]