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Parable of the Two Lost Sons and the Gracious Father

In the second half of Followers at Hayward Wesleyan Church in 2019, I had decided to interact with stories of Jesus found in the Gospels in order to teach and demonstrate how Jesus showed people what God, his Father, was like. I called the series: According to Jesus, What is God Like? For the first story, I picked the […]

People Are More Important Than Jobs

In my last year at HWC (2019) our after-school program Followers was interacting with stories that Jesus told people in order to learn what God is like. During the Junior Followers (grades K-2) teaching time we had one of those amazing moments where students say something profound. We were engaging with the story Jesus told about […]

Philosophy of Children and Family Ministries

In the fall of 2007, I started a graduate program at Bethel Seminary. While I eventually finished my master’s degree at another seminary, I am so thankful for my year and a half with the faculty at Bethel and my fellow students of Cohort K! I came across this document back when I was cleaning […]

Encountering the Biblical Narrative

I was asked to contribute a chapter to this book project back in 2014. It’s chapter 21 in Pulse: Pumping Life into Your Kids Ministry. I chose to write on something that I am pretty passionate about: Engaging children in the chronological, linear, and unfolding biblical narrative rather than using Scripture to instruct mere principles […]