I asked to boys to remember what we read yesterday, and they were able to retell the story in detail. It is good to repeat stories! Now we read a story that they haven’t heard before. It is the story of Jesus walking on…
We come to another famous story - Jesus feeding five thousand people with five loaves of bread. The children know this story well as we also covered it during our children’s service. It is also the only miracle that is recorded in all four Gospels…
As we have been going through Lent, the children are becoming more engaged, while John and I are becoming less engaged. Bible time marks the end of the day, and by the end of the day we are both exhausted and half awake. The children…
Today, we read about Jesus talking about the Sabbath. It is a passage that the children have never read or heard before. We first talked about what Sabbath is. The boys haven’t heard that word before, and Evan jokes it sounds like cabbage. We…
Day 23 - Mark 2:23-3:6 - Lord of the Sabbath Sabbath is a day of rest that is in the Ten Commandments. What is the difference between God’s intention for the Sabbath and how the Jews kept it? Day 24 - Mark 5:21-43 - A…
We now read a story of the centurion. A centurion is a Roman commander who oversees 100 men. That point is important in this story. Yesterday, we read Jesus healing a paralytic, and other than him having great friends, nothing is really said about him. …
It was very refreshing to read the Sermon on the Mount with the children. Even though it is harder to understand or remember than narrative stories, I think it gives the children a feel for what God’s kingdom and righteousness is like. Now we read…
We are halfway through our Lenten journey (day 20!), and today we read the last part of Jesus’s sermon. We first focus on the dust and plank in our eyes. We explain to the boys that we cannot point out other people’s sins when…
We are continuing Jesus’s sermon and learning how we should think and act as God’s people. In first half of the chapter, we read about what we shouldn’t do and should do, and through that we learn that even doing good things can become…
We have been reading stories from the book of John, and now we move to Jesus’s sermon in the book of Matthew. It is the first time reading the Sermon on the Mount with our children. I didn’t know how much they would understand, so…
We start by remembering what we read yesterday. Because it was a passage that wasn’t a narrative story, the children had a harder time remembering. We remember Nicodemus the pharisee, and we recite John 3:16 again. We come back to a passage that we are…
Day 17 - John 4:1-26 Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman Jesus talks to a Samaritan and a woman. What is the significance of this? Compare and contrast the type of water that the woman is thinking of and the type of water that Jesus…
We come to a passage that we did not cover during our children’s worship. It is the story about Nicodemus talking with Jesus. It is a longer passage, and it is a little bit difficult for the children to follow. As we are reading…
We missed a day of reading yesterday. The children only wanted to do Bible time if there was dessert, and I didn’t want to give a lecture and fight for it, so we skipped both and went to bed. Today during the day, we…
We remember that Jesus called his first disciples yesterday, and now he is starting his ministry. This passage is the very first miracle. It is the famous water turning into wine story. It is a story that John has selected to show what Jesus’s mission…
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