Can you recall your best days? Not just good days, but best days. Any childhood memories stick out? Perhaps it's the day you caught Oscar, that massive fish that was the stuff of fishing-hole legend. Or perhaps...

When you need more than a youth ministry volunteer can give, but you're not looking for another you, an intern may be the answer."Can anyone help me with all these young people?" It's a common cry heard from yo...

I heard Randall Wallace, author of the screenplays Braveheart and We Were Soldiers, quote a Persian proverb, "When the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. When the heart is unwilling, it will find a...

We believe Billy Joel said it best: "Get it right the first time, 'cause that's the main thingWo-oh-oh-ohYou can't afford to let it pass. Get it right the next time, that's not the same thingWo-oh-oh-ohGotta ma...

Sunday School stinks. Case in point: I used to be able to evangelize with ease, only later to feel I'd been wrong about how I was sharing my faith through church classes that taught me "the contagious way" to w...

The very title seems almost sacrilegious, doesn't it? You don't manage worship. You just do it. Right? Well, it's my opinion that those who don't spend time managing their group's view and practice of worship...

You may think of them as cute, adorable little people. At other times, you probably think of them as nefarious, treacherous trolls. To corporate America, teens represent a vast and wealthy market. Major compani...

The Lascaux cave paintings were discovered by accident in 1940, and since then new discoveries have been pushing the dates of humanity's first art ever further backward.In 1994, explorers in France discovered e...

It's interesting that so many Christians are going gaga over Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Let me get this straight: Jesus doesn't have the usual ironed robe and Miss America sash, and the perfectly w...

For reasons too many to name, I chose to make a statement as a rebellious 13-year-old that this rite of passage was stupid. Besides, I never planned to come back to Temple as an adult. I said to myself, "So wha...