My husband and I, recently travelled for three hours to attend the wedding of a dear friend.  The journey was as good as it could be, given that the weather had finally decided to become wintry! Our return journey unfortunately was marred by an acci…

I made and baked my own bread for many years.  The whole family would enjoy watching me do this – I think they anticipated the end result more than being onlookers to the mixing process. It can be a very satisfying undertaking; the mixing and addi…

Do you remember those times in your life when you tried to cover up a mistake or a wrongdoing?  I do.  They haven’t gone away, and I didn’t get away with them.  Even if I had, I soon learned that God sees everything.  Nothing is hidden from H…

Use this free preschool Bible lesson to teach some basic concepts about sin and the saving love of God. We’ve included several learning activities and object lessons to help make these concepts concrete for younger children. You could easily adap…

We created this lesson plan for a stuffed-animal theme night at our church. Each child was allowed to bring their favorite toy pet. The lesson began with puppet skit improvisation that to introduced the theme, Bible verses, and some random tips for s…

**This is a guest post from Nick Diliberto from PreteenMinistry.net Preteens have a high energy level. If you’ve worked with them for five minutes, you know this to be true. They can’t sit still for very long, get easily distracted like to move…

Green Lake Conference Center is gorgeous. Speaking at the Minnesota/Wisconsin pastors/wives retreat has been fun (for me at least). The people are wonderful. Internet and phone service not so great. Hope everyone is behaving. Contributors, take charg…

I am excited about what might happen at this month’s Executive Committee meeting.  I’ve been advocating for a name change for some time, so your decision to name this task force and study the issue, thought it has been controversial, was welcome…

Some questions to ponder, my beloved, blustery, battling, (bloviating?) Baptist-blogging buddies. Is there a secret conspiracy of Jewish bankers which has conspired through the centuries to control international monetary affairs? Did communists infil…