Sometimes we hear people refer to the gift of Easter, and on Sunday we are going to reflect on the generosity that made Easter a reality for us, and for the gifts that are extended to us because of the resurrection.  But that is Sunday and this is Friday.  You see there couldn’t be a…

What a day!  Normally when we think of the Sunday before Easter we focus on what is traditionally referred to as the “Triumphant Entry”.  You remember the story, Jesus comes riding into Jerusalem on a young donkey and the crowds come out to greet him, yelling praises and waving Palm Branches which is where the…

The crowd surged toward the road, pushing and shoving to get a better look at the man called Jesus.  The city was Jericho and it was wall to wall people, each one of them eager to get a look at the young carpenter from Nazareth that everyone was talking about.   It was his first time…

Here we are in Week seven of our old school Sunday School series and during that time we have see Jesus lost in the temple, baptized in a river, heal a paralyzed man and a blind man and mediate a sibling rivalry.  And that’s what happened when Sunday School was being taught, each week a…

This winter we decided to re-visit Sunday School to bring you some of the New Testament Stories that those who were brought up in a traditional Sunday School learned as children.  So we’ve taken to the flannelgraph to tell you the stories of how Mary and Joseph lost Jesus in Jerusalem when he was twelve,…

This is week five of our Old School Sunday School series.  Each week we’ve been re-telling some of the great bible stories from the New Testament, and so we’ve discovered new insights from the story of Jesus’ parents losing him when he was a kid, about Jesus being baptized, healing the blind man and being…

For ten years starting in 1968 Christian Life Magazine published a list compiled by Elmer Towns, who was a Sunday School Guru, listing the top 100 Sunday Schools in America.    In 1974 the largest Sunday School in the US and assumedly in the world was First Baptist Church in Hammond Indiana with an average…

This is week three of Old School Sunday School.  And we sometimes think of Sunday School as a fairly recent phenomena, something that became a part of our churches in the fifties, when the parents of the boomers were filling churches with their growing families.  But the first Sunday schools were set up in the…

This is week two of our Old School Sunday School series.  We tried this last year and had so much fun with the Old Testament Stories that we decided to bring it back for an encore. Sunday School isn’t a big deal in most churches these days, it’s been rebranded as Jr. Church and instead…

So, where were you when you lost your kid?  Seriously, if you have children you’ve lost one at some point or another. And if you haven’t lost one yet you will.  Maybe it was in a grocery store, or on a street, at Disney Land or perhaps at church.  But you remember the moment when…