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Continue reading →: The Center of God’s Will (OBJECT LESSON)
You can download this lesson at: https://www.teachingthem.org/product-page/center-of-god-s-will-object-lesson
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Continue reading →: God Is There When It’s More Than We Can Bear (OBJECT LESSON)
Here’s a new object lesson that I’ve posted on YouTube. This object lesson teaches that God will help us get through difficult times and temptations. He never leaves us alone when we suffer. The lesson is made by sticking wooden skewers through balloons without popping them. You can download this lesson at:…
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Continue reading →: Animal Sounds from Different Cultures (ENERGIZER)
Time 10 minutes Description This fun energizer gets people up, moving, and making funny sounds as they mimic what animals sound like where they are from. Different cultures often have different sounds for the same animal, and the differences can be surprising and quite funny sometimes. This energizer works best…
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Continue reading →: Fruit Salad (ENERGIZER)
This fun energizer gets people up and moving in a mad dash to grab an available chair. It works well to increase the energy in the room, and it could also be used to randomly sort participants into new groups. Use the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness…
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Continue reading →: Easter – Foreshadows of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection (DEVOTION)
This devotion shows how God left clues to Jesus’ death and resurrection in the pages of the Old Testament. God had a plan to restore us to relationship with Him from the very beginning.
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Continue reading →: Overwhelming Blessings (OBJ LESSON)
Time 15 minutes Description This object lesson uses a tower of cups and a waterfall of liquid to demonstrate how God blessed everyone around Joseph because of Joseph’s faithfulness to God. Scriptures Genesis 37:12-36; 39:1-6, 20-23; 41:53-57 2 Corinthians 9:8 – The Voice translation: “God is ready to overwhelm you…
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Continue reading →: Journey with Joseph (LESSONS)
(Image credit – Phillip Martin – http://bible.phillipmartin.info/bible_joseph.htm) I developed the following five lessons for a week-long summer camp that I pastored this year. The lessons follow the themes of the Royal Family Kids Camp curriculum (http://royalfamilykids.org/) are intended to build on one another, but it is possible to teach them…
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Continue reading →: Source of My Identity (LESSON)
Time 30 minutes Description This lesson explores many of the things in which people base their identity and sense of self-worth, e.g., wealth, power, fame, etc. It encourages participants to consider the danger of living life in this way and the value of basing our identities solely in Christ. Scriptures (choose…
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Continue reading →: The One Anothers of Scripture (INFOGRAPHIC)
Here’s a visual that shows all the “one anothers” that I was able to find in the Scriptures, e.g, “love one another,” “forgive one another” and so on. The size of each of the keywords to the left of the Scriptures indicates the relative number of times it appears in…
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Continue reading →: Spiritual Practice Cards (JOB AID)I created this job aid for a spiritual retreat I have coming up. It’s a list of 40 spiritual disciplines or practices arranged on cards and organized by the type of spiritual practice each one is. The information on the cards in compiled from a large number of sources, but…
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I’ve been teaching kids about the Bible for more than 25 years. Teaching Them is where I share my lessons, games, and skits.
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