So the past two weeks the behavior in our elementary environments has been absolutely crazy.  The kids have been bouncing off the wall.  We have been just baffled about what changed and what we need to do differently. We had already scheduled a meeting with leadership to brainstorm and to pray. Then one of our leaders had a revelation.  Our kids...

One of the greatest things I have learned from Jim Wideman is that our greatest sermon will be our family.  I have so far to go in being intentional in investing in my children. I have had several people ask me what verses we have taught our two little girls (ages 3 and 20 months).  I’ve had a tough time finding a lot of good resources for...

Here are my last 5 favorite things that God did this past week at our VBS: 6.  Great story – one little girl was overheard in the backseat on Wednesday telling her friend, “tomorrow is the best day, we talk about what Jesus did for us!”  Did you catch that?  A little girl was pumped that the next day they would be talking about Jesus.  Too cool. 7. ...

Let me go ahead and confess that we still do VBS.  In fact we break all of the “cool, big church” rules.  We still even call it “VBS” and sometimes I even slip and say “Vacation Bible School”.  I know that is anti-cool, but in our culture in suburbia Alabama it still works.  We also still have it in the morning...