As with any picture book, lessons are often taught but not in such a way that a reader or a read(ee) feels like they’ve been the recipient of a lecture or a sermon. Take Nugget & Fang for an example. Children will learn in a playful way that friends do indeed come in all different shapes and sizes. (more….)
Did Sam McBratney know when he sat down to pen this picture book, that he was creating a modern day classic. I don’t know any grandmother who does not want to read Guess How Much I Love You to their own granddaughters or grandsons. This goes the same for mothers too.
Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens (Publisher: Jossey-Bass) Neil Cole’s Organic Church does what sermons are supposed to do – comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted. I fall in the first category. For the past few years I would leave church on Sundays (as a pastor and attender) Read more…