The story of Jesus walking on water and then inviting Peter to come out of the boat, on to the water with Him, is a popular story to share about faith. We are all told that we need to get out of the boat, but there is something that we must do before we get … [Read more…]
Sometimes it can be difficult to get the fire going. It takes just the right amount of kindling, a spark, then to catch the wood, the main fuel on fire. But once the fire is going, it is refreshing. We can sit back and enjoy the flame and the heat of the fire. As … [Read more…]
You may have seen some of the videos on YouTube of young children preaching the Word of God. When people see videos and stories like this, they naturally become skeptical about whether the children are just being exploited and people enjoy the “cuteness” of a young child preaching. Most of these videos of children … [Read more…]
As I type this, there are a group of people at Awana learning how they can be advocates for Awana. Yes this may be one of the secrets of Awana that I shared earlier this week, but if you were following the hastag #Awana14Launch on Twitter, then you knew this as you saw the … [Read more…]
As the ministry year begins, we are optimistic that God will do great things. The one thing that we don’t consider is that we are human, we get tired, frustrated, and sometimes it seems our service is in vain. Unfortunately we sometimes take this out on the children or other leaders through the words we … [Read more…]