This is a Modern Flannelgraph post. The book of Numbers is a great place to learn about complaining. Sure, Numbers probably isn’t really top of your list for daily Bible reading. I get that. It’s in the Old Testament (and all the good stuff’s in the New Testament, right?). It’s in the Pentateuch. (That’s the...
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The Modern Flannelgraph
I grew up in Sunday School many years ago. Back then, flannelgraphs was a part of life. For those who never saw one, a flannelgraph board is a storytelling device. It usually had a basic background, perhaps an exterior scene, made of flannel (thus the name) and included other flannel scenes that could be pulled...
Skylanders, or The Ordinary Face of Humility
Tim’s favorite game these days is simply called Skylanders. It’s is a game of pretend that he loves with all his heart … and which I despise. Of course, I am not opposed to pretend. I used to play pretend by the hour, alone on my swing in my parents’ backyard. But the key...
A Hard Christmas, Part 4: The Secret
I’ve been thinking about my last post. Christmas is hard when we don’t get what we want. It is. It’s hard and not fun, and we would be silly to pretend otherwise. But I wanted to clarify. The reality of a hard Christmas isn’t fun. And dealing with that has to be real or...
A Hard Christmas, Part 3
Timmy was just watching a little Christmas video (Why Do We Call It Christmas? from the folks at What’s in the Bible?). I wasn’t really paying much attention, so I have no idea what exactly the characters said. But suddenly he popped up and said, “Sometimes, you don’t get what you want for Christmas, right, Mom?”...