Articles for tag: Sunday School Lessons

January 24, 2019

Christian Standard

Orrin Root and ‘Sound the Battle Cry!’

I was thinking about Orrin Root the other day. He comes to mind quite often. Mr. Root was retired when I met him in 1998, but he still was writing The Lookout’s weekly Sunday school lesson commentary, as he had done since 1949. When Mr. Root died in 2003, he was several months ahead on his lesson writing. Oh, and he was 98. I always thought he wrote like a young man, only with much wisdom. Mr. Root came to work at Standard Publishing (former parent company of this magazine) in 1945, when he was 40 years old. He became

July 29, 2009

Christian Standard

Valuable Downloads for You and Others You Know

By Mark A. Taylor Every media outlet in the country is working to make information available to readers who want it via the Internet. Here at CHRISTIAN STANDARD we”ve been doing this for years. Our Web site, www.ChristianStandard.com, offers a wealth of new and archived material from the magazine, plus our Web-only features: blogs, weekly Sunday school lessons, extended interviews, reader comments, and more. All these are reasons thousands of Web users visit our site every week. In addition we”re creating a growing list of downloads. Each of these is inexpensive, easy to order, and valuable for teaching, preaching, or

March 22, 2006

Christian Standard

Have We Said Enough?

By Mark A. Taylor Tom Ellsworth says most people must receive a barrage of promotion before they realize the facts about something new. “I have learned through years of ministry that the church must print, project, publish, and promote its agenda heavily to be successful,” he told me. “A special program needs to be announced from the pulpit, advertised in church publications, posted to the church Web site, flashed on the big screen, and talked about in general conversation to ensure congregational “Ëœbuy-in.” Doing it once or twice won”t cut it. It is only when we as staff are tired of

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