08/22/2021 - Climate Justice Resources
A collection of materials for climate justice.
Worship Resources for Climate Justice
"All creation is the Lord’s, and we are responsible for the ways in which we use and abuse it. Water, air, soil, minerals, energy resources, plants, animal life, and space are to be valued and conserved because they are God’s creation and not solely because they are useful to human beings. God has granted us stewardship of creation. We should meet these stewardship duties through acts of loving care and respect." (Social Principles, ¶ 160)
05/02/2021 - The Council at Jerusalem
As we continue to watch the Church evolve, there is a new disagreement brewing: should the gentile Christians submit to the Torah and be circumcised?
05/02/2021 - The Council at Jerusalem
We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
04/17/2021 - Answer The Phone
The 20 spiritual gifts are those listed within the Pauline epistles to Rome, Ephesus, and Corinth (Romans 12, Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12–13), and recognized by the first-century church. While all of life is a gift from God, these twenty gifts are lifted up within Scripture as the gifts of the Spirit, given specifically for the upbuilding of the body of Christ.
Week 10 - 11/15/2020 - Isaiah's Vision in the Temple
Isaiah was a man who served God. He received his calling in the temple where he had a vision of God. Upon the sight of God’s glory, Isaiah not only realized how majestic and perfect God is, but he also was faced with his own imperfection.
Week 10 - 11/15/2020 - Isaiah's Vision in the Temple
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 9 - 11/08/2020 - The Fall of Jerusalem
Jerusalem has fallen, the Babylonians have broken into the city, set fire to the temple, and drove the citizens to exile.
Week 9 - 11/08/2020 - The Fall of Jerusalem
The Babylonians set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 8 - 11/01/2020 - The Widow at Zarephath
Elijah the prophet spread God’s message that it was not going to rain. God led Elijah to a brook where he could find water to drink. God also sent ravens with bread and meat. When the brook dried up, God sent Elijah to a widow in a town called Zarephath. Elijah told her to use her limited resources to make him a small cake. God then kept filling her jars of flour and oil until the drought ended.
Week 8 - 11/01/2020 - The Widow at Zarephath
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 7 - 10/25/2020 - God's Promise to David
David wants to build a temple to house the Ark of the Covenant. But God has other plans. What God wants is to build David a “house”—a royal dynasty.
Week 7 - 10/25/2020 - God’s Promise to David
Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 6 - 10/18/2020 - Hannah Promises Samuel to God
Hannah, who is childless, pours her heart out to God, weeping because she does not have a child. God heard Hannah’s prayer and answered her request for a son, and she named the boy Samuel.
Week 6 - 10/18/2020 - Hannah Promises Samuel to God
And she made a vow, saying, “Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 5 - 10/11/2020 - The Golden Calf
The Israelites grow impatient with Moses’ leadership and with the wilderness and decide to create an idol to worship that looks a lot like the pagan idols so commonplace at the time. The Israelites make sacrifices before their new idol, a golden calf, and bow down before it in worship, claiming that this “god” was the one to bring them out of Egypt.
Week 5 - 10/11/2020 - The Golden Calf
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 4 - 10/4/2020 - The Promises of Passover
After years of living as slaves, God called Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. God gave Moses instructions for the people to follow. This included eating a special meal and painting lamb’s blood around the doorway. At night, the firstborn of the Egyptian families died, but death passed over the homes of the Israelites.
Week 4 - 10/4/2020 - The Promises of Passover
This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 3 - 09/27/2020 - Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph’s brothers were jealous because their father, Jacob, loved Joseph the most. Joseph’s brothers hated him so much that they decided to kill him. But instead the brothers sold Joseph to some traders, who took him to Egypt to be a slave.
Week 3 - 09-27-2020 - Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph’s brothers were jealous because their father, Jacob, loved Joseph the most. Joseph’s brothers hated him so much that they decided to kill him. But instead the brothers sold Joseph to some traders, who took him to Egypt to be a slave.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions, and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 2 - 09/20/2020 - God's Promise to Abram
The Lord calls Abram (later renamed Abraham) to travel to a new land. The Lord promises Abram that from him would come a great nation, and that the land that they inhabit would belong to them.
Week 2 - 09-20-2020 - God’s Promise to Abram
The Lord calls Abram (later renamed Abraham) to travel to a new land. The Lord promises Abram that from him would come a great nation, and that the land that they inhabit would belong to them.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.
Week 1 - 09/13/2020 - Creation and Fall
After God made the earth and the heavens, God formed the first humans. These humans, Adam and Eve, were called by God to care for the garden of Eden. God gave them permission to eat any of the fruit that grew there, with one exception.
Week 1 - 09-13-2020 - Creation and Fall
After God made the earth and the heavens, God formed the first humans. These humans, Adam and Eve, were called by God to care for the garden of Eden. God gave them permission to eat any of the fruit that grew there, with one exception.
Below are resources for each age group. They contain a summary, some guiding questions and in the family resource crafts or activities. Please download them and use them throughout the week.