A professor once told me:

“You eat breakfast for yourself; lunch for your friends; and dinner for your family.”

I like the commercial advertisement for Stouffer’s Dinners about taking time to have dinner as a family. It’s good for the entire family: young and old, big and small.

Here’s an interesting post from Phil Vischer of VeggieTales fame and the new Jelly Telly.

Children’s attention spans are said to becoming shorter and shorter and relationship skills are lessening. Some say the reason is from social networking websites.

Where do you include young teens in your church ministries — youth?

What happens when a 13-year-old becomes a father? Most preschool ministries and early childhood centers require a person to be over 18 to sign children out. Read on…

This week’s children’s worship lesson was a fabulous reminder to all of us. We must focus on Jesus and listen to Him.

The story is told in Matthew 14 when Jesus walks on the water toward the disciples’ boat. Peter sees Jesus and calls out to Him for an invitation to join Jesus. Peter begins walking on the water towards Jesus but is overwhelmed by the wind and the waves and loses his focus on Jesus; therefore, he begins to sink into the water.

Uh oh! Now he’s getting wet. What to do? Jesus puts out his hand for Peter to hold and Jesus pulls him safely into the boat. The storm then stops.

We need to remember to focus on Jesus and listen to Him. When we forget to focus or get too busy and overwhelmed with other things and don’t listen to Him, we can know that Jesus’ hand is sticking out for us to hold; we must remember to reach our hand out and grab His hand.