Resources for Church at home with your kids
Lesson for June 7, 2020
Lesson Overview:
In this lesson, kids will begin to think about the things they long for to satisfy them, and learn that what we truly long for is to be rescued from sin and live with God for eternity. They will watch a Bible story video to learn about God sending Jesus to earth to be the lamb of God who satisfies our truest longings, then learn a memory verse, have a discussion about what they learned, and do a follow-up activity as well.
Key Scripture:
John 7:37 (memory verse)
Elementary Essential:
God is good: He cares for his people.
Memory Verse:
“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” – John 7:37.
Post-Video Discussion Questions:
What are things you want that you think will satisfy you? How do you think they will make you feel?
In today’s video, how do we learn that God is good and cares for us? That he is sovereign and protects us? That he rescues us? (God is good because he cares about his people and wants to be with them. He is sovereign because he has a plan to save his people-to protect them from sin and death. We learn that he rescues us from sin through his son, Jesus, the Lamb of God)
Read John 7:37 and ask, “Based on what we learned in today’s video, how does Jesus satisfy us?” (He died on the cross for our sin so we don’t have to. His death on the cross allows those who believe in him to be with Him forever)
Follow-Up Activity: Memory Verse Art:
Gather art supplies (markers, stickers, paper)
Parents: write the memory verse with a pencil on a sheet of blank paper: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” – John 7:37.
Kids: use your art supplies to trace over and decorate the blank area surrounding the memory verse, or even create a frame for the edge of the paper.
Hang the artwork on the fridge so you can practice the verse all summer.
Extended Study for 4th and 5th graders:
After reading the verses and answering the questions from the post-video discussion, read the following verses and journal about who Jesus says he is. Pray and ask God to satisfy your longings with Jesus who satisfies and is the way, truth, and life.
John 6:35
John 8:12
John 14:6
Lesson for May 24, 2020
Lesson Overview:
Children will see how God rescues his people from sin by sending Jesus. Jesus lived a perfect life, died, and rose again, defeating the curse of sin and death caused by Adam and Eve’s rebellion in the garden. After listening to a podcast episode, you can use the discussion questions and the following activities to reflect on the Redemption plan in God’s Big Story.
Post-Video Discussion:
If you were one of Jesus’s disciples, how would you feel? (Sad, confused, afraid, angry, etc.)
Why did Jesus die on the cross? (The wages for what we earn for our sin is death. God is holy and takes sin very seriously. Someone had to pay for sin. Because of his great love for us, Jesus took our sin and punishment on himself. He died so that we could be forgiven if we trust in him as our Savior and our King.)
All of this happened on a day that we call “Good Friday.” Why do you think Christians can call what happened on this day good? (Even though it is a day of much sadness, it’s a day of hope. Because of what happened on the cross, we can be forgiven if we trust in Jesus as our Savior and King.)
Why do you think it was important for Jesus to rise from the dead? (It shows that sin and death have no power over King Jesus and it gives hope to all who follow him. Just as Jesus rose from the dead, someday all who follow him as King will rise again and live forever with him in the new heaven and the new earth. His resurrection guarantees our own.)
Independent Activity for Kids:
Use Legos or play dough to create a scene that represents redemption through Jesus’s death and resurrection.
For 4th and 5th graders:Read 1 Corinthians 15:12-19. What makes Jesus’s resurrection so important? Write out and illustrate these verses, or choose a verse or two to memorize this week.
Lesson for May 17, 2020
Lesson Overview:
Children will watch a short video that tells the story of how sin entered into the world through Adam and Eve and infected everything. They will also learn that even a story that has so much bad news also contains amazing hope and the promise of a Savior.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=D7LZnMHYrmY&feature=emb_logo
Post-Video Discussion:
What was the one command God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden? (Not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.)
How did sin enter the world? (Eve listened to the serpent and ate the fruit that God told them not to. She gave some to Adam.)
What happened? (Sin broke everything! Their perfect relationship with God, their perfect relationship with each other, their perfect relationship with creation. Everything from now on would be hard and contain part of sin’s curse.)
What are ways that sin infects your life? (Share responses.)
Even though this story contains so many sad, hard things, it also contains a hopeful promise. What is it? (That God would send someone born of a woman to crush the head of the snake and rescue and restore all that he had made from the curse of sin.)
Independent Activity for Kids:
Use old magazines to create a “sin’s curse” collage. Cut out pictures that show ways this world isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. Next week after our redemption lesson, you can cover them with a cross to show how Jesus’s death and resurrection overcomes the curse and power of sin.
For 4thand 5thgraders:
Look at the following verses and create a graffiti board that lists what they tell us about the destruction of sin’s curse. Consider memorizing one set this week.
Romans 6:23
Romans 8:20-21
1 Corinthians 15:22
Thanks to our friends at The Crossing Church in Columbia, MO for curating the children’s lesson each week and graciously sharing with us!