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Category: Sunday School

  • Sunday School Is Cool

    Sunday School Is Cool

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    Herb

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22087-657: I started this post in February before the lockdown was in full swing after I was told about a church that made the decision to only have one service and not do Sunday School anymore. I’m not a pastor or preacher or anyone in authority and…

  • The Phone Call

    The Phone Call

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    Herb

    Yesterday I felt humbled and a little awed by a phone call I received. Readers who have been with me for a while now will have noticed that the subject of Sunday School comes up from time to time. I love teaching and I love reading the stories and imagining…

  • Zoomy Children’s Church

    Zoomy Children’s Church

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    Herb

    Before I get started I would like to say Happy Birthday to my son, Benjamin, the storyteller over at Brother’s Campfire. Go visit him and tell him Happy Birthday! And no, Zoomy Children’s church doesn’t mean Air Force children’s church, I was just referring to the meeting program called Zoom.…

  • Good Tradition

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    And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy…

  • Zero Year

    Zero Year

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    Herb

    This new year of 2020 is filled with numbers ending in zero for me and my family. Several significant personal events are coming up this year. Twenty years ago I survived the awful calamity of the infamous “Y2K Bug.” This year on February 18, Grandma Pike turns ninety years old.…

  • The Wise Man Built His House On The Duplos

    The Wise Man Built His House On The Duplos

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    Herb

    When you are teaching Sunday School to ten, eleven, and twelve-year-olds one of the problems that you run into is that they either know everything or know nothing, often both. When you have a very familiar story then sometimes you want to find a different angle to come at it…

  • Accountability

    Accountability

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    Herb

    A few years ago I started to try to challenge some of our young people to read the Bible through in a year with varying success. Some really took up the challenge and did it that first year. A couple of them had a false start that year but picked…

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“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king / I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing / Each time I find myself flat on my face / I pick myself up and get back in the race” Frank Sinatra – That’s Life
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