Tag Archives: faith
No More Than We Can Bear
Time 10-15 minutes Description This object lesson helps children understand that God will help them get through difficult times and situations. He never allows us to go through more than we can bear, and He never leaves us alone. Materials … Continue reading
Filed under Anxiety, Belief, Challenges, Coping skills, faith, Fear, Hands-on, Science experiment, struggles, Trust, Worry
Spotlight Effect
Time 20 minutes Description This object lesson teaches that when God shines His favor on us, it blesses other people around us, as well. It uses the story of Joseph to illustrate this principle. Materials · Powerful flashlight or spotlight … Continue reading
Filed under Belief, blessing, Challenges, God's favor, Obedience, Object Lesson, struggles, Trust
That’s Not Fair!
Time 10 minutes Description This object lesson helps kids to understand that unfair things happen to all of us. We can’t always change that, but we can change how we respond to what happens to us. If we look for … Continue reading
Filed under Challenges, Christianity, Coping skills, fairness, illusion, Magic, Object Lesson, struggles, test, tool
Don’t Fumble Your Faith
Time 30 minutes (or longer, depending upon how many rounds of play you allow) Description This object lesson helps children understand how much faith it took for Abraham (called “Abram” at the time) to leave his family and friends to … Continue reading
Filed under Abraham, Abram, Belief, Challenges, Christianity, faith, Fear, Game, Games that Teach, God's Will, Hands-on, Hope, Obedience, Object Lesson, Sarah, struggles, test
Potiphar Says
Time 10 minutes Description This object lesson teaches that we don’t always get to choose our circumstances, but we always get to choose our attitude about those circumstances. It highlights Joseph’s way of handling his enslavement to Potiphar in Genesis … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, faith, Game, Joseph, Obedience, Object Lesson, struggles, Trust
Walking on Water
Time 30-45 minutes Description This object lesson is used as a highlight to the story of Peter walking on water. The lesson is big and expensive. It takes lots of time to prepare, and it’s messy. It’s best reserved for … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, faith, Hands-on, Object Lesson, Peter, Simon-Peter, test, Trust
Fall of Faith
Time 10 minutes Description This object lesson teaches about faith and about doing things for God that are sometimes scary. Materials Box or some other sturdy object that children can fall off backward so that you can catch them. It … Continue reading
Filed under Anxiety, Belief, Christianity, faith, Fear, God's Will, Obedience, Object Lesson, Trust, Worry
Straw-tato
Time 15 minutes Description This object lesson helps people to see that the “impossible” is not always as impossible as it seems. Materials Potatoes for every participant and for the facilitator (ripe potatoes work best) Straws for every participant and … Continue reading
Filed under Belief, Christianity, Coping skills, faith, Hands-on, Object Lesson, Trust
Tool, Test or Territory
Time 30 minutes Description This object lesson teaches that God uses the people and the events in our lives as TOOLS (to shape us), TESTS (to help us see the condition of our hearts) or opportunities to take more TERRITORY … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, God's Will, heart, Joseph, Obedience, Object Lesson, territory, test, tool, Trust
