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Helping Students Evaluate Their Spiritual Appetite

Final tests and exams are almost over and another school year is drawing to a close. What are your students and children longing to do over the summer months–camping? hanging...

Spiritual Interest and True Saving Faith

As teachers and parents, it is important that we continually proclaim and live out the Gospel for our children with the hope that, by God's sovereign grace, they will embrace...

Accept No Shortcuts

When teaching children the Bible, it's often tempting to look for time-saving, convenient shortcuts for preparation and presentation. Some materials even boast of how "quick and easy" their Bible material...

Giving Our Children the Gift of Memorials

And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon...

Encouraging Volunteers to Stay

Yes, it's almost the end of another school year, but that big "R" word often looms in the minds of children and youth ministry leaders. Recruitment. How will you go...

The Importance of "Formative Instruction"

I find these words from Tedd and Margy Tripp to be very helpful in thinking about intentionality in our teaching. Or, another way to say it is that they are...