Check out this statistic from Maxine Bersch: It has been said that sixty-five percent of the story is carried out by nonverbal means. Only thirty-five percent of the meaning is conveyed by the words! — Maxine Bersch, Storytelling in a Nutshell: A Primer for Storytellers in Christian Education (Genevox Music, 1998), 101. Think about that for a moment! For most of...

My wife’s brother recently bought a headset that allows him to slide his smartphone into it to experience virtual reality environments and games using apps on the phone. He was over at our house the other day so I slid on the headset to try it out. In a split second, I was fully immersed into a music video where...

Wrath is not necessarily a bad thing. Think about it. In any epic, the good guys win precisely because they have poured out wrath on the bad guys. That’s part of telling a good story. The hero is victorious and the enemy is defeated. Good wins. Evil loses. Throughout the story of the Bible and of history, God, the...

Let’s talk about it up front and get it over with. If we want to tell Bible stories well—if we want to communicate the beauty and power of the gospel in engaging ways—it takes work. So, yes, your prep time will increase as you learn the art of storytelling. But remember that your kids are worth the extra effort!...

We’ve all been there. Perhaps it was a lecture. Or a conversation on a plane. Or perhaps it was even… gulp… at church. That’s right. I’m talking about listening to a real bore. You know, the person who made you struggle to stay engaged—perhaps even to stay awake. Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to...

If you teach The Gospel Project for Preschool, you may have noticed that there are three lines of dialogue in the “Watch or Tell the Bible story” of the Large Group Leader section that sound virtually the same every week. It always goes something like this: Do you know why the Bible is the most important book there is?...