A Christmas Prayer

By Matt Sapp At a recent Wednesday Bible study group at my church, we spent time talking about what we would pray for if we really believed that God came to earth at Christmas to redefine justice, righteousness and peace. I organized the group’s thoughts and wrote them down. What follows is our collective prayer: God who comesContinue reading “A Christmas Prayer”

Five Ways to Encourage Children to journal

There is little doubt that keeping a journal has long been considered a spiritual and personal discipline.  Even the Bible have hints of the journal genre–from parts of Jeremiah and Nehemiah and the psalms to first-person accounts in the book of Acts. Christian history is also fraught with examples in which the act of journaling hasContinue reading “Five Ways to Encourage Children to journal”