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What is a Teacher?

Why invest in the sometimes tiresome recruitment and training of classroom teachers in children’s and youth ministry? Why use “old-fashioned” teaching methods when high quality lesson videos are available for...

Biblical Literacy—What Will our Students Need?

Imagine doing the following exercise with a classroom of 16-year-old students: Summarize and explain the main meaning of Romans 3:21-26. How does this text apply to your own life? “But...

Family: A Gift, but Not the Giver

[caption id="attachment_5945" align="alignright" width="186"] photostock/freedigitalphotos.net[/caption] An important reminder from Pastor Ray Ortlund: God gave us family. And what a precious gift! But it is a gift, not the Giver. Jesus will not allow...

A Poem by John Piper

Desiring God originally posted this video poem on January 22, 2013. May it serve to challenge and encourage us today. Here is the prelude to the poem: God is the...

Training Children to Value and Protect Human Life

I was 13 years old when the infamous Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the US Supreme Court. Sadly, I don’t remember any response to the decision from...

The Maturity Level of Children

In 1 Corinthians 13:11, the apostle Paul points to some important distinctions between children and adults: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a...