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This web-site is for everyone interested in learning more about the Bible.
This section helps Sunday school teachers find new ways of teaching familiar materials. Our goal is to augment lessons you may already have in your Sunday school curriculum.
In August, we will examine some of Jesus’ healings.
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. Three years ago, our pupils were asked to tell Bible stories to the preschool children. Now they ask all the time when it’s their turn to tell a story. The children in the preschool class can’t wait for a story and are quite vocal in asking the older children to come and tell them a story. There are some preschoolers who are anxious to try their hand at telling the stories as well. On a recent class visit of 4th graders with 3 and 4 year olds, the preschoolers didn’t hesitate to add details to the story of the three Hebrew boys.
We cannot overlook the significance of memorizing a verse or story.
Consider sharing with your Sunday school pupils and parents ways 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 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.
August 5
(KJV) 1 John 1:3
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
- What did John see and hear about Jesus?
- What is “fellowship”?
- Do you have fellowship with God and His Son?
August 12
(TEV) 1 John 2:5
But whoever obeys his word is the one whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:
- How do we obey God’s word?
- How do we make God’s word perfect?
- Describe your “union” with God.
August 19
(CEV) 1 John 3:18
Children, you show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it.
- Why is it important to actually help others rather than just talk about what you might do?
- What have you done lately to show your love?
- How do you feel after you’ve helped someone?
August 26
(NKJV) 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
- What are you afraid of?
- How will love remove your fears?
- Why will an understanding and love of God eliminate fear?
Sept. 2
(TEV) 1 John 5:21
My children, keep yourselves safe from false gods!
- What are “false gods”?
- How do we keep ourselves safe from false gods?
- What do “false gods” try to do to our lives?
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Bible Stories
This month we are looking at some of Jesus’ healings. There are many more healings than those listed below. See the Overview of Jesus’ Healings.
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ACTIVITIES |
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Bible Characters offers an examination of Docetism.
Bible Overview looks at 1 John.
This month’s Hot Topic discusses stopping complaint.
Make A Difference is a case of making a difference.
Kids Korner offers puzzles, games, and stories dealing with some of Jesus’ healings.
Parenting with the Bible looks at a Biblical treasure hunt. |
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This month, we are reviewing Bible stories related to some of Jesus’ healings.
Exercise: Jesus as a Healer
Ask everyone in the class to take different healings from the Gospels. Looking at the Chronology of Jesus’ Healings in the New Testament assign 1-5 per person. The citations are listed for each Gospel where the healing occurs. Mark has the most healings of all the Gospels.
 Print/Download Chronology of Jesus' Healings in the New Testament
Healing from:(Bible citation) __________________________________________________________
Who is healed?
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What is healed?
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Where does the healing take place? (house, synagogue, desert, etc.)
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What qualities does Jesus see in the person who needs healing?
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Describe the atmosphere surrounding the healing. Are people supportive? Argumentative? Angry?
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Which Jewish rituals, traditions, or customs does Jesus break (if any)?
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What do we learn about healing from Jesus’ example?
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What specifically does Jesus say or do in order to bring about the healing?
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What does this healing mean to you?
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Exercise: Healing Journal
It is a good idea to keep a log or journal of your healings. Record what needed healing. What did you think or pray? What was the result? If you used Bible verses or stories to help you, jot down the citations. BibleWise is always happy to receive your healing messages to post on BibleWise. Sometimes if we forget to keep a record of our healing messages, we sometimes forget the good God is pouring out to us on a continual basis. Having this record reminds us of God’s constant care for us.
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Exercise: What are the names of the disciples?
An easy way to remember the disciples’ names is to create a pneumonic. For example STAMP Toast with Peanut Butter and 4 Jams.
S = Simon T= Thaddaeus A= Andrew M= Matthew, and P = Philip.
T(oast) = Thomas, P(eanut) = Peter, B(utter) = Bartholomew.
4 J(ams) = John, James, Judas and James.
Or create your own.
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Exercise:
Take 13 pieces of paper; put Jesus' name on one and then put a name of a disciple on each page. Now start gathering information about each one.
- What do you know about Jesus?
- Which disciples are brothers?
- Who are the sons of Zebedee?
- Which were fishermen?
- Name qualities for each disciple.
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Exercise:
Create a job-wanted ad for a disciple.
- List the qualities you are looking for in a disciple.
- What kind of experience are you seeking?
- What must the disciple be able to do?
- What type of education is necessary?
- Give a job description.
- What is the person expected to do?
- What is the work schedule?
- Who will the disciple be working with?
- Where will the disciple be working?
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Exercise:
Read one of the stories about Jesus calming the storm and complete SOS.
Print/Download SOS
Print/Download SOS Answer Sheet
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS |
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Healing
- What is healing?
- What kinds of people needed healing?
- Name some of the healings you find in the Gospels.
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Jesus Selects Disciples Read Luke 6:12-17; Jesus Calls the Disciples
- What qualities did Jesus look for in selecting his disciples?
- What did Jesus require of his twelve disciples?
- What does Jesus require of us as his disciples?
- How well do we measure up to the original disciples’ qualifications?
- Would Jesus select you? Why or why not?
- If Jesus selected you, would you agree to follow?
- Jesus didn’t exclude you from discipleship. In his prayer before going to the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed for himself, his disciples, and us.
- (CEV) John 17:20-21 I am not praying just for these followers. I am also praying for everyone else who will have faith because of what my followers will say about me. I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.
- What does this prayer mean to you?
- Why did Jesus select twelve and not more or less?
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Paralytic Healed Read Mark 2:1-12; A Man Who Could Not Walk; Why Four Men Tore Up the Roof of a Crowded House
- What is unusual about this story?
- What kind of faith did the paralytic’s friends have?
- How difficult was it to get him up to the roof? [Archaeologists have unearthed Peter’s house where this healing may have taken place. The homes had stone stairs built into the side of the house for easy access to the roof. In the evenings, families would sit and talk in the cool of the night.]
- Did Jesus get upset about the hole in the roof?
- What did Jesus tell the man?
- Why is forgiveness of sin so important to this man’s healing? [Since they believed any physical problem was the result of sin, there may have been tremendous fear that he couldn’t be healed and guilt that he needed God’s forgiveness to survive. Jesus just cut through that red-tape and relieved him not only of his anxiety but his paralysis.]
- Why were the Jewish authorities upset?
- Why is forgiveness important in any healing?
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Jairus’ Daughter Read Mark 5:22, 23, 35-43; A Girl Who Died; The Little Girl Who Was Raised to Life
- How old is the girl?
- What was Jairus’ occupation?
- What did Jairus ask Jesus to do?
- Who interrupts Jesus going to Jairus’ house?
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Touched the Hem Read Mark 5:24-34; One Touch
- Healing of a woman with an issue of blood [Mark 5:25-34]
- What was wrong with this woman?
- What did this woman do?
- How many years had she been sick?
- What do these two healings have in common? [both females, one 12 on the verge of womanhood and one with a problem of womanhood for 12 years; one touched Jesus’ clothes and one was touched by Jesus, keep looking…]
- How did Jesus know someone had touched him?
- How did the woman approach Jesus?
- Why didn’t she run away, after all she had her healing?
- What kind of courage did it take to stand up and be recognized? [remember she was unclean to the Jewish society]
- What did Jesus call this woman?
- What is interesting about what he called her?
- What did Jesus say about her faith?
- What was Jairus doing during this interruption?
- What did a servant tell Jairus?
- What did Jesus tell Jairus?
- What was the scene when Jesus arrived at Jairus’ home?
- What are professional mourners? [people called to cry and wail for the person who died]
- Did Jesus have any authority to put them out? [Not until they weren’t doing their job properly.]
- What did Jesus say to the mourners who caused them to lose their jobs? [She is not dead but sleeps]
- Why would they lose their jobs over what Jesus said? [they laughed at him and you don’t laugh at a funeral, so then Jesus could put them out.]
- Why did Jesus have to put everyone out of the house?
- What did Jesus say to the girl?
- What did Jesus request the family to do when he presented her alive?
- Why wasn’t Jesus concerned that the girl had died?
- Why are these two stories told together?
- What do these healings tell you about Jesus?
- What was Jairus healed of?
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Blind Bartimaeus Read Mark 10:46-52; Blind Beggar; Jesus at Jericho
- Who was Bartimaeus the son of?
- What does Bartimaeus mean? [son of Timaeus]
- Where was Bartimaeus?
- What did he call Jesus?
- Why do you think people told Bartimaeus to be quiet?
- Why was Bartimaeus so insistent?
- Would you be that insistent to be healed?
- Why do you think Jesus asked Bartimaeus what he wanted?
- What healed the blind man?
- How important is faith in healing?
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Man at the Pool of Bethesda Read John 5:2-18; The Cripple at the Pool, and the Withered Hand in the Synagogue
- What kinds of problems did the people have who were waiting for the moving of the waters?
- Does the moving of the waters sound superstitious to you?
- What approaches to healing seem superstitious today?
- Did the man ask Jesus to help him?
- Why did Jesus approach him first? [To test his sincerity for healing. Beggars in that day made more than a common laborer, so maybe he thought this was as good as it gets and he didn’t want to work.]
- What did the man tell Jesus?
- What day of the week was this man healed?
- What did he require of the man?
- What indication do we have that Jesus’ healing of this man didn’t require a period of recuperation?
- When Jesus saw him in the temple, what did he tell him?
- Why do you think Jesus said this to him?
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Man with the Withered Hand Read Mark 3:1-5; The Cripple at the Pool, and the Withered Hand in the Synagogue
- Which hand was withered? [Luke 6:6]
- Why was this a problem? [The right hand was for social situations, work, and eating. The left hand was left for personal hygiene.]
- Who was watching to see what Jesus would do? Why?
- Did Jesus take the man aside and heal him quietly? Why not?
- What did Jesus ask those standing around?
- Why do you think Jesus healed on the Sabbath when the commandments say not to work on the Sabbath?
- Couldn’t the man just come back tomorrow?
- Why was healing so important to Jesus?
- What did Jesus ask the man to do?
- Was it difficult for the man to do what Jesus asked? Why or why not?
- What do we learn about Jesus and Jewish laws?
- What would try to interfere with healing today?
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Jesus Calms the Sea Read Matt 8:23-27; Winds and Waves
- Why were the disciples afraid?
- Why was Jesus sleeping if the storm was so bad?
- What did Jesus say to his disciples?
- Why did he think they were of little faith?
- How would you have felt if you were being tossed around on the sea?
- How do we develop that absolute faith and trust in God?
- What did Jesus say to the winds and waves? [Mark 4:39]
- Again, why is faith so important in healing?
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