I took a lot of piano lessons when I was young, so I should be a better musician than I am today. In my teen years, though, my interests focused on girls and basketball, and my parents decided they didn’t want to pay for piano lessons if the lessons were the only time I actually […]
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson: 1. Imagine that you were going to visit Yellowstone National Park. What distinguishes Old Faithful from the many other geysers in the park? Why do you think Old Faithful is one of the park’s most popular tourist attractions? What might make it lose its […]
The movie Chariots of Fire tells the story of Eric Liddel who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics. Liddel loved to run. He said he ran because “God made me fast and when I run fast I feel his pleasure.” But Liddel chose not to run when he discovered the qualifying rounds for […]
Much of my adult life has been spent employed in some form of Christian ministry: preaching, editing adult Sunday school material, and teaching in a Christian university. Over those years I’ve received a steady stream of information about the numerous resources that exist to assist a follower of Jesus in attaining spiritual maturity. There are […]
MONDAY Reading for Today: Matthew 10:1-20 Acts 15:1-21 Psalm 23 Genesis 50 Genesis 50 Joseph had good reason to be furious with his brothers. Because of their actions he became a slave, he was falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, and he was thrown into jail. Everything terrible that happened to him could […]
