By Lindsey Bell I’m a stay-at-home mom. There are some weeks I don’t see anything except the walls of our home and the things and people who reside there. On weeks like these, it’s tempting to think I’m not a leader. After all, whom can I lead from inside my home other than […]
By Christy Barritt VBS Remains Popular Though the numbers have dropped some in recent years, Vacation Bible School still remains popular. In 1997, 81 percent of churches offered VBS programs. In 2012, the number went down to 68 percent. This is according to a new Barna study. The study showed that 86 percent of […]
By Doug Shamblin It’s fun to watch children build towers out of dominoes, jenga sticks, Lego blocks, cards, and other items. Most of the time when they are creating and designing, the destruction crew takes over and the construction phase must begin again. Many of us can identify with the towers in the children’s […]
By Victor Knowles “Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him” (Luke 9:12). The Twelve. That’s what they were called. That’s how they were known. • “He took the Twelve aside” (Matthew 20:17). • “Calling the Twelve to him” (Mark 6:7). • “The Twelve were with him” (Luke 8:1). • “Have I not chosen you, the […]
By T.R. Robertson For nearly two years, from the first Monday in September 2004, until the first Monday in June 2006, I made a weekly trip from the Mizzou Christian Campus House to the Missouri state prison for women in Vandalia, Missouri in the company of campus minister Roy Weece and an ever-changing group […]
