The true story of a boa-constrictor that got loose in our house for five months.
Jonah 1-4 (Click here to read the book of Jonah. It is only four short chapters in length. You may choose whatever translation you prefer on the Bible Gateway website.) Tomorrow’s Sunday school lesson is on the book of Jonah. I am grieving over the teacher’s manual that supplements the student handbook for this quarter because the writer obviously does not believe in the account as historical fact but only as a parable. I deeply regret that teachers across the
I’m a kid again! I just brought home a whopping big 184 Crayola crayons to make Bible quilts. Add that to the 24 crayon box I already had and I now have 208 crayons. I bought them to help children make Bible quilts. Erica colors one of her Bible quilt pictures. Wesley is using the light box to trace a picture for the Bible quilt. I started making Bible story quilt blocks with my grandchildren last week. With the help of
How do you teach children to pray? Even more so, how do you teach them to pray if you struggle with your own prayer life? Today I received my Family Devotional Success Newsletter in my email, and teaching children to pray was the topic of its first article. This article reminds us that we must be careful not to reduce God to a granter of wishes or to a god who must be appeased as if we were praying to
The weather forecasts all said we would get snow in Murfreesboro, TN this morning (I’m visiting my 91 year old mother) , so I made an early shopping trip followed by a 25-minute walk on the sidewalk before the snow had time to make it slippery. I thoroughly enjoyed the walk. As I walked I made a few observations I thought I would share: Snow-filled spider web Spider webs catch the first snow. I noticed a web made down in the shrubbery
