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Why I Bought The Fighter Verses Coloring Book

This fall was a big transition for our 4-year-old grandson. Because our church strongly encourages families to be together in corporate worship, childcare during the worship service ends at age...

A Child, Catechism, and Cancer

In his article, “In Peace or Crisis, Instruct Your Children in the Lord,” William Ross makes a heart-felt and biblical plea to parents to take seriously the catechizing of their...

Helping Us to be On Guard Against Sexual Abuse ...

Sexual offenders are not dumb. They are deliberate and calculating. The very things Christians see as strengths—love for others, a trusting disposition—perpetrators see as weaknesses on which they can prey…Many...

Responding to Discouragement

[caption id="attachment_6731" align="alignright" width="200"] John Angell James[/caption] Every cause which is worth supporting, will have to encounter difficulties—and these are generally proportionate to the value of the object to be...

Serving Special Needs Families

I am very thankful for the growing number of churches that are creating a welcoming, loving, well-thought-out, helpful ministry for children with special needs. How is your church doing in...

Voices from the Past

[caption id="attachment_6731" align="alignright" width="200"] John Angell James[/caption] From The Sunday School Teacher's Guide by John Angell James in the year 1816: The ultimate object of a Sunday School teacher should...