Mother’s Day Teaching Goal: Honor mom. Scriptures: Ephesians 6:2 Honor your father and mother--which is the first commandment with a promise--that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. Proverbs 31 THE NOBLE MOM vs. 15: Mom provides food for her [...]
Lent/Easter Season Teaching Goal: Follow Jesus in every part of your life. Scriptures: Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, [...]
Teaching goal: To teach the story of Satan’s fall from Heaven so that children may understand where evil originates. Scriptures: Revelations 12:7 And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. Genesis 3 The story [...]
Lent/Easter Season By Karen Noal Teaching Goal: The forty days before Easter—Lent—is a time for self-examination, repentance and remembering the sacrifice of Jesus. Scriptures: Psalm 139:1, 23-24 “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. Search me O God and know my heart; test me and know [...]
Teaching Goal: Jesus calls us to be “salt” in this world. Salt melts ice as Christians can melt cold hearts. Scripture: Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. Colossians 4:5-6 Be wise in the way you act toward (non-Christians); make the most of every opportunity. Let your [...]
By Karen Noal Teaching Goal: Garbage in, garbage out. Goodness in, goodness out. Scriptures: Matthew 12:34-35 “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the bad man brings bad things out [...]
Teaching Goal: Only God knows who will be in heaven. Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, 13:36-43 Parable of the Wheat and Weeds. 1 Samuel 16:7 The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. Materials: Bible [...]
By Karen Noal Teaching Goal: A heart that is soft and open toward God will grow. Scripture: Acts 8:1-3 On that day, a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned [...]
Teaching Goal: Garbage in…garbage out. Goodness in…goodness out. Scripture: Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Matthew 12:34b-35 For [...]
Teaching Goal: Man looks at the outside, but God looks at the inside of a person. Scripture: 1 Samuel 16 Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you [Samuel] to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king…Samuel [...]
Teaching Goal: God values service, perseverance, faith, and giving, not gold and money. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:6-7 Though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined [...]
Teaching Goal: When we listen and do what the Holy Spirit says, our lives look different. Scriptures: John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. [...]