How to Show Kids You Care

Here's a great - and short! - video with simple ideas of how to show kids you care. It's produced by the Search Institute, a great organization devoted to "Discovering what kids need to succeed."

Enjoy!

With Ears to Hear

There are LOTS of websites to help pastors write sermons. Lots. Some of them are good, some not so much. A couple that I turn to on a regular basis are Working Preacher (from Luther Seminary) and The Text This Week, which serves as a landing place for all kinds of stuff related to preaching and worship planning.

Preaching professors know all about these sites, too. One professor, Dr. SD. Giere, Associate Professor of Homiletics & Biblical Interpretation, (Wartburg Seminary) looked for websites for those who listen to sermons week after week, but found none. As a response to this void, he launched WithEarsToHear.org - a website for those who listen to sermons. It provides accessible, biblically grounded information about preaching and tools to help orient the ear toward the gospel.  The website, which is free to all, also includes listening strategies for Bible study, call committees, internship committees, and confirmation classes. You're invited to "like" WithEarsToHear.org on Facebook and to be in touch with Dr. Giere with any questions or suggestions you have.

I hope this will be another good resource for families to use together, in doing devotions during the week, as a way to prepare for worship on Sunday, and to process what they've heard in the sermon.

Please let me know what you think, in the comments below.