I want to continue our series of posts about What Matters Now in Children's Ministry with a few posts about the answers that really resonated with me. Randy Isola contributed the answer "Wonder" to the What Matters Now project. Randy is my boss, but that's not why I'm reflecting on his contribution (I'm pretty sure he does not read this blog anyway). Randy has re-taught me what children's ministry is all about. I say that he "re-taught" me, because before I met Randy I thought I knew everything about children's ministry. Here's what Randy had to say about wonder: I believe one of the most compelling questions in Scripture is the disciples’ asking about Jesus, “What kind of man is this?” After a glimpse of his power, the disciples were driven to discover the answer. Our churches should instill that wonder in children and propel them to a lifelong adventure of finding out the truth behind that question. Read more...

Good leaders take their followers to new realities and better futures. Here's 9 lessons my senior pastor taught me this summer:

I've written about Wordle before. It's a great tool to create cool designs out of text by calculating how frequently words are used and representing it graphically. I was recently challenged to use Wordle as a devotional tool.