The Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945) was one of the fiercest battles in World War II. Sixth months after the Allies landed in Normandy, they had pushed across most of France and were knocking on Germany's front door. But the Germans had one final major offensive left in them, which they executed along the Belgian-French border where there was a weaker spot in the Allied line. The Germans threw hundreds of thousands of soldiers, large amounts of armor, and more into ... [Reading More]

I like to cook and bake, although I am a better cook than a baker. That's usually the case. People are better at one or the other; rarely is someone really good at both. The reason is because cooking and baking require different wiring in a person. Baking is more of a science. Good baking requires following a recipe precisely, or understanding the proper ratios of the different elements in a baked good and how one will interact with the others. Cooking, on the other hand, is more of an ... [Reading More]

If you purchase a digital bundle for Volume 6 (Winter 2016-17), you will notice that there are only two units listed in that material—Unit 16 and Unit 18. Don't panic! All of the content—including Christmas Unit 17—is there! Here's what's going on. Because the 2-session Christmas Unit 17 falls in the middle of Unit 16, we need to merge these two units together in My Curriculum Manager so that the Christmas sessions schedule for December 18 and December 25 and not after Unit 16 finishes. ... [Reading More]

If you teach The Gospel Project for Preschool, you may have noticed that there are three lines of dialogue in the “Watch or Tell the Bible story” of the Large Group Leader section that sound virtually the same every week. It always goes something like this: Do you know why the Bible is the most important book there is? The Bible is God’s words, and all God’s words are true! The Bible tells us everything we need to know about God and His Son, Jesus. I promise we are not being lazy and ... [Reading More]

Once when I was a preteen, I ate too much at a church picnic. I know, haven't we all? Anyway, I felt really sick afterward—I mean really sick. One of the last things I had eaten at the picnic was a pie with a graham cracker crust. For years, I couldn't eat pies with graham cracker crusts because I connected graham cracker crust with how sick I felt. I knew that it wasn't the graham cracker crust itself that made me sick, it was everything I had eaten—the hamburgers, chicken, chips, brownies, ice ... [Reading More]