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This web-site is for everyone interested in learning more about the Bible.
In all likelihood, many of you have an established curriculum in your Sunday schools. Our goal is to augment your lessons with additional information. Starting this month, we are discontinuing the “Assignments” section and incorporating much of that material in the Activities section. During the summer, BibleWise was heavy on review materials. For the next four months, we will be working with the four parts of the Prayer of Jabez. In September, we will put prayer into practice. The Prayer of Jabez is helpful and easy for children of all ages to learn and practice.
The entire Activities section is divided into Memory Work, Activities, and Discussion Questions. You can go to any of these sections and select what best works for your pupils.
You can now download all three sections for ease in using these materials for teaching. |
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MEMORY WORK |
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Teachers and Parents
It is so important to encourage our little ones as well as ourselves to memorize Bible verses and stories – to become so familiar with the passage or story that its timeless relevance appears to us more and more clearly with every retelling. A major difference was evident between Sunday school pupils required to tell the story versus those who gave nodding recognition to the same story. Last year I asked three third graders to tell the story of Jesus’ birth. They couldn’t. After working with them to learn to tell the story in their own words and share it with family, friends, and our nursery children, they not only could tell the story at Christmas last year, but they remembered it without prompting. We can not overlook the significance of memorizing a verse or story.
Consider sharing with your Sunday school pupils and parents how to help little ones learn the verse and understand the impact of the message on their lives.
- Write out or type this week’s Bible verse on a card and place it on a mirror the child uses each day.
- Place the verse for the week in his/her lunch box.
- Ask the child to recite the verse before or after grace at the dinner meal.
- Practice as a family at dinner, going around the table with each one saying a word until the verse is complete.
- Put the verse to music. Create your own tune for each Bible verse. Create pictures to help remember the verse.
- Write it in a Bible verse notebook as many times as you can.
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Bible Verses
Work with your child and your students to learn each verse. Then, discuss the meaning of the verse and how it can be applied to our everyday lives. On Sundays during class, riding in the car, or at dinner, it's fun to share stories of how the children have used the verse in their lives that week.
We provide memorization verses for each week. You can add your own.
Sunday 3rd Col 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- Who would try to spoil us?
- What kind of philosophy should we beware of?
- What is “vain deceit?”
- What are the traditions of men?
Sunday 10th Col 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- What does “admonish” mean?
- How do we use psalms and hymns to admonish?
- What song does your heart sing?
Sunday 17th Col 1:10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
- Where do we begin to increase our knowledge of God?
- What is our work?
- What does it mean to be “fruitful?”
Sunday 24th Col 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- What does it mean to season our speech with salt?
- What does "grace" mean?
- Why should our conversations be gracious?
Sunday October 1st Col 3:2
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- What is "affection?"
- How do we set our affections on things above?
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Bible Stories
This is a good time to review the books of the Bible and help pupils tell the related Bible stories.
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ACTIVITIES |
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This month we are reviewing some of the Bible characters who prayed. Bible Overview covers the epistle or letter of Paul to the Colossians. You might be wondering, why so much emphasis on prayer? Prayer is the most powerful weapon we can use against evil. Our world needs our prayers. We need to teach our children to pray, and understand the efficacy of prayer. |
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Exercise:
Discover how your children or pupils pray by asking them to close their eyes and then pray aloud. Listen to each one talk with God. If they are reluctant to pray – start working on how to talk with God. Discuss the elements of prayer. Why do we ask God to bless us? Do we ask God to bless us? Continue this activity each week until you see the students becoming more comfortable talking to God. As they gain confidence, add more to the structure of prayer. Discuss when to pray and why prayer is important. |
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Exercise:
Continue adding Bible people who prayed and how God answered their prayers in your prayer journal. |
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Exercise:
Read the Prayer of Jabez from I Chronicles 4:9-10. On a white board, have the students list the four principle aspects of the prayer. Help the students create a pneumonic for remembering the first line to ask God to bless them, or draw a picture as a reminder. |
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Exercise:
Psalm 8 is a good picture Psalm. Help your students match the words with the appropriate pictures.
 Print/Download Psalm 8
Print/Download Psalm 8 Answer Sheet
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Exercise:
Bible fun. Using a concordance, look up as many animals as you can find in the Bible. Fingerprints is a good way to begin and then add more animals and pictures using your finger prints.
Print/Download Fingerprints
Print/Download Fingerprints Answer Sheet
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Exercise: How well do you know the books of the Bible? Bible drills keep everyone sharp.
- All students should have a non-indexed Bible.
- Start with the Bible closed.
- Announce the verse.
- Ask if it is in the Old or the New Testament.
- Who is speaking?
This is a fun one to keep track of their points. You can earn points for:
- Knowledge of the correct testament
- Who said it
- Finding it first
- Ability to say it without looking.
You might want to start with books of the Bible you know they’ll find; for example:
- Gen 1:31
- Ex 20:3
- Matt 5:16
- Rom. 12:2
- Prov. 3:5-6
Then move to something harder. Keep track of their scores. The Bible drill will get them familiar with where to find their favorite Bible stories or verses. |
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Exercise: Read Colossians 3:16
The game discusses the importance of memorizing Bible verses. Keep a chart of all the Bible verses they have memorized and test them periodically. Complete the God’s Word in your Heart maze.
Print/Download God's Word
Print/Download God's Word Answer Sheet
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Exercise:
This puzzle requires some Bible digging to fill in the blanks of Climbing through the Jordan Valley. It’s an excellent activity to help pupils learn the names of male Bible characters.
Print/Download Climbing through the Jordan Valley
Print/Download Climbing through the Jordan Valley Answer Sheet
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Exercise:
Read the story of Nehemiah. Build a wall of kindness. Discuss the importance of being kind. Make a paper brick or make copies of bricks and have the students write different acts of kindness they expressed during the week. Tape your bricks to a wall and see how high their acts of kindness can go. You may also want to use healings they’ve had to build a wall of healings. Or you might build a gratitude wall – listing all they are grateful for on individual bricks.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS |
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Discussion questions for some of this month’s Bible characters. |
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Prayer of Jabez – I Chronicles 3:9-10
- Who or what do we pray for?
- How often do you pray?
- Do you pray for peace?
- At home?
- School?
- The world?
- Why should we pray daily?
- Why isn’t prayer just a list of things we want?
- What is appropriate for us to pray for?
- How does prayer dissolve:
- Hatred?
- Envy?
- Resentment?
- Terror?
- Anger?
- In the prayer of Jabez, what’s the first thing he asks God?
- What is a “blessing?”
- When we ask God to “bless” us, what are we asking for?
- If you look at the verses in I Chronicles 4 before and after verses 9 and 10, what do you notice?
- What is so unusual about verses 9 and 10 in this chapter?
- How special do you think Jabez was to God?
- Did God answer his prayer?
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Read Genesis 15, 18, and 21 or Abraham’s Prayer
- What did Abraham pray for?
- Who told him he’d have children?
- How did Sarah react?
- How did God answer his prayer?
- What do you learn from this story?
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Elijah - Read I Kings 17 or God Sends Food Every Day or Elijah the Prophet; Why Birds Fed a Prophet by a Brook Near Jordan;
- Who is Elijah?
- Why was it hard for people to find food?
- Who fed Elijah before the brook Cherith dried up?
- Who fed Elijah after he left the desert?
- What do you learn about God’s provisions?
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Read Nehemiah - or Nehemiah Builds the Wall; or How the Walls of Jerusalem were Rebuilt
- Who was Nehemiah?
- What was his request?
- Who did he rely on to complete the building of the wall?
- Which city’s walls were destroyed?
- Why were they destroyed?
- How difficult is it to build a wall?
- Why did they have to build with one hand and have a weapon in the other hand?
- How difficult would that be to hold a weapon and build the wall?
- Who tries to stop Nehemiah from building the wall?
- Why?
- Has anyone every tried to stop you from doing something that needs to be done?
- What have you done to make sure the task was completed?
- Were Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem terrorists?
- What did they try to do?
- Why didn’t they succeed?
- What does this story tell us about dealing with terrorists?
- What do terrorists and bullies have in common?
- Have you ever had to deal with a bully?
- Why was Nehemiah successful?
- Write a prayer that Nehemiah might have prayed.
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Build on the rock: Read Matt. 7:24-27 or Two Houses
- Describe what makes a man wise.
- What makes a man foolish?
- Which type of house would you build?
- Why shouldn’t we build on sand?
- What is “sand” thinking and acting like?
- What is “rock” thinking?
- Why is “rock” thinking better?
- What was Jesus teaching us?
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Sermon on the Mount - Read Matt 6:5-7:13
- How did Jesus teach his disciples to pray?
- Do you know that prayer?
- What’s it called?
- How have you used it?
- Why do we need to forgive?
- What part of the Lord’s prayer is like the Prayer of Jabez?
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Phoenician Woman - Read Matt 15:21-29 or Mark 7:24-30 or How Jesus Answered a Mother’s Prayer.
- What did this woman ask Jesus to do?
- What was Jesus’ response?
- Why do you think he rejected her at first?
- What do the dogs eat?
- Did Jesus heal her daughter?
- What do we learn from this woman about praying? (never give up)
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Help your pupils find other stories that bring out the element of asking God for a blessing. |
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