For those of you new to the blog or with very short memories (who, you?), you can view the first Seuss and the Bible post here.

Last time, I went over some truths we can learn from Horton Hears a Who.  This time our focus shifts to two more of Seuss’ stories.

Green Eggs and Ham:  If you can’t remember why your children always come home with green tongues on Seuss’ birthday, here’s the 5 second plot summary: Two friends.  Friend #1 has lots of enthusiasm about his great new food, green eggs and ham.  Friend #2 is (much) less enthusiastic.  Eventually Friend #2 gives into Friend #1, and ends up loving green eggs and ham. (more…)

Tonight I was reading over at another blog of a children’s minister online.  His name is Hiew Hong Teck, and he’s a children’s pastor over in Singapore.  He had some great tips for developing your PowerPoint presentations.  They were just so good that I had to share them with you.  You can check them out at his blog, ragsstudio.

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Our senior pastor has been leading youth group for the past several weeks with a series on the book of Daniel.  Last week we were covering the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  If you forget the story, go read Daniel 3.  For a quick summary, the story was: king set up idol, everyone but three worshipped it, three get thrown into furnace, saved from burning by God, king is amazed.  I just condensed an entire chapter of the Bible into 22 words.  Wow.

In talking about idols, our senior pastor made this remark:
“Anything that comes between you and Christ is excess.  An idol.”

He went on to talk about how anything can become an idol: family, friends, socializing, even ministry. (more…)

Last week, I went and saw “Horton Hears a Who!” in the theatre. I was reminded how much Dr. Seuss reminds me of Biblical themes. So, over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing about the Seuss series and some of the things we can learn from it.

We’re going to start with Horton Hears a Who. We’re going to use quotes to make our points.

1. Children matter, just like adults.
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

OK, I know I’m kind of preaching to the choir on this one, but it’s something important to never forget. Every child from the youngest baby to the oldest preteen are just as important as the “grownups”. While we can’t use the same approaches with kids as we do adults, they have an amazing ability to understand God and who he is. Remember that they aren’t stupid! (more…)

I have a lovely aunt who makes WONDERFUL cakes.  For my birthday I wanted a Macintosh shaped cake.  She lives in Arkansas, however, so I didn’t get my cake until we came down on Spring Break this week.  However, as you’ll see in the first picture, she tortured me with a less impressive decoy cake with a real apple on top.  The real cake was much better though!  Check out the pictures below:

Now, don’t you wish you had my aunt?