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"Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up" Deuteronomy 6:5-7 (NIV).
Bible Lesson Plans - 2018
Teach kids to follow Jesus---Make every minute count! Check out our Bible lesson plans, Sunday school curriculum, Children's sermons, Bible games, Christian skits, and Christian craft activities--for elementary-aged classes, kids' church, midweek, and Bible clubs too!
Super Heroes of the Bible (08/22/2018)
The Willing Hearts Who Changed The Course of History -- A two-semester book
Discussion
Starter
What is a super hero? (Listen for answers. i.e. comic book heroes, sports and real
life heroes.) What are some characteristics of super heroes? What are they like? Can
you name any Super Heroes? (Listen for answers.)
Super heroes are people of honor; they are courageous, or brave. They are people with
integrity, having good reputations. People of honor know right from wrong and choose
to do right. People think well of them and say good things about them. We respect them
and hold them in high regard.
Sometimes heroes are famous, and sometimes they aren't. But the one characteristic
that makes super heroes different from other people is that they have willing hearts to
do a special task to rescue others. They put other people before themselves, and
sometimes endanger their own lives!
Have you ever heard the Bible stories of David and Goliath? Or Noah's Ark? Have you
ever stopped to consider what would have happened if David the shepherd boy had said,
"I'm too young to serve God. Ask someone else to be king." or "I'm too busy
tending my sheep." or, "I'm way too small to defeat Goliath! He could kill me!"? All those
excuses would be true, but what might have been the result? Well, Goliath and the
Philistines might have defeated Israel, and God's people would have died.
What if Noah had said, "Rain? There's no such thing as that much rain that could flood
the earth!* I can't build an ark to save my family, because if I do my friends and
neighbors will make fun of me!" What would have happened if Noah said this? Well,
maybe the entire human race would have been destroyed!
The truth is that God has a plan for all of his creation. If Noah or David hadn't obeyed
God, he would most likely have used someone else to do these special tasks. But think
of the miracles and the super hero experiences they would have missed out on by not
having willing hearts to obey God! You see, God loves us and gives us the privilege to
work with him to carry out his will! All it takes is a willing heart, ready to obey him!
Super Heroes of the Bible looks at the lives of David and Noah, as
well as some other men and women, and boys and girls, and some famous and
not-so-famous people from the Bible, who had willing hearts to obey God. And by obeying him,
they were used in miraculous and powerful ways to help change the course of history!
Help your children discover how they can become a super hero for Jesus! Learn more about our Super Heroes of the Bible Lesson Plans.
* Genesis 2:5-6 indicates that rain did not exist before the flood.
Bible Game Olympics (08/22/2018)
Backstroke Relays
Set up: Establish a large playing area to designate the "Olympic pool." At the opposite side of the "pool" place a cross. Players, "the swimmers," assemble into teams.
How to Play: The first set of swimmers line up side-by-side at the start line. At the go, players "swim" backwards to the cross, touch it, and then turn around facing forward to "swim" breast stroke-style back to the start line. Players tag off to their teammates, with the next set of swimmers taking their turns, playing as before. First team to complete the relay wins the gold, second team the silver, and third team the bronze.
Object lesson: This is a fun way to remember what it means to repent. When you recognize you're going in the wrong direction . . . continue reading.
Where will you spend eternity? Are you going to heaven?
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