This week’s session covers the pastoral epistles that Paul wrote to Timothy and Titus and provides us with a fantastic opportunity to help our kids develop a heart for the pastors, elders, deacons, teachers, and other leaders in the church. Here are three take-aways you might want to consider being sure to address: We Should See Leaders as Gifts...

When word of various sins—some quite severe—taking place in the church in Corinth reached Paul through a believer named Chloe, he penned a letter to admonish the church to be holy. Paul addressed what are probably the two most severe sins first and last. First, he rebuked the church for its open and willful disunity. Last, he corrected the...

This week, we see the story of the church take a major turn, one that we should be immensely grateful for. In Acts 13-14, Paul and Barnabas take the first recorded church missions trip. Thus, the final step of the formula Jesus gave to follow in Acts 1:8 began in earnest. The gospel was being taken to the ends...

I don’t understand how a 7-800,000 pound Boeing 747 can lift off the ground and fly. I don’t understand how a 200,000 ton cruise ship can float. I don’t understand how the MacBook Air I am using right now does what it does. I don’t even understand (fully) how my Toyota gets me to the grocery store and back....

I’m afraid of heights, although I would choose to rephrase that as I have a healthy respect of why God did not give people wings. I have a fear of being hit by a train when I drive across railroad tracks. Yeah, my family finds that one rather silly too. Just recently, I learned that my daughter and I...

When I was a kid playing baseball with my friends, one of the favorite things for us to do was to copy the batting stances of some our favorite professional players. If you aren’t very familiar with baseball, often players will have rather unique stances when they are up to bat and also when they swing. We loved mimicking...