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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 June, July, and August, we are doing something very different on our Activities pages. We’ve asked Olene Carroll, who has taken many people on trips to the Holy Lands, to develop a “Kids Tour” of the Holy Lands for BibleWise. Obviously, there is much more to “show and tell” about than we have space for in three months, but it will be fun to get started by associating places in the world today that were traveled by Bible greats. There are several ways to work with the tour. For June, the cities on the tour included: Netanya, Caesarea, and Megiddo. Due to a flat tire on the tour bus (that is, an unexpected bump in the road at BW), we were unable to get to Caesarea when planned. We are now on target to have those cities posted. For July, we are traveling to Mt. Carmel, Nazareth, Tiberius, Capernaum, and Magdala. We will continue to list a few Bible stories to read from these cities, but not all of them. Please feel free to discover the rest on your own.
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. We can not 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.
July 6
(CEV) Gal:3:28 Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.
- Why does faith in Christ Jesus make us equals?
- What is freedom?
- What forms of slavery exist today?
July 13
(KJV) Ps 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
- As we continue our Holy Land journey through the slides, which nation is blessed by God?
- Why kind of an inheritance has God given us?
- What do you notice about the land as you view the slides of each city?
July 20
(CEV) Ps 23:1 You, LORD, are my shepherd. I will never be in need.
- How is God a shepherd to us?
- Why, if we trust in God, will we never need anything?
- How are you trusting everything in your life to God?
July 27
(CEV) Ps. 23:2-3 You let me rest in fields of green grass. You lead me to streams of peaceful water, and you refresh my life. You are true to your name, and you lead me along the right paths.
- How would these verses be helpful if you’re traveling?
- How has God refreshed your life?
- How are you taking time to notice and appreciate God’s creation?
August 3
Ps. 23:4 (NLT) Even when I walk through the dark valley of death, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.
- As we travel this summer, why is it good to know that God is protecting and comforting us?
- How has God helped you overcome your fears?
- What is the difference between God’s rod and His staff?
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Bible Stories
This month we are touring some of the cities where these stories actually took place. Study the slides of the city and think about these Bible characters and their stories.
Mt. Carmel: I Kings 18:17-39
Younger: Elijah on Mount Carmel;
Older: How God Showed His Great Power on Mount Carmel
Nazareth: Luke 1:26-35; Matt 1:18-25; Luke 2:1-14
Younger: The Angel's Secret, The Most Special Baby
Older: The Manger of Bethlehem
Tiberius: Luke 5:1-11
Younger: Helpers and Friends
Older: A Net Full of Fishes
Capernaum: Mark 1:21-32
Younger: A Busy Sabbath Day for Jesus
Magdala: Matt 5, 6, 7
Younger: On a Mountain
Older: The Twelve Disciples and the Sermon on the Mount |
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ACTIVITIES |
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Bible Overview explores Psalm 151.
Make A Difference talks about sharing experiences in Sunday School.
Teen Time Hot Topic looks at dealing with weather extremes.
Kids Korner offers puzzles, games, and stories about the Kids’ Holy Land Tour.
Parenting with the Bible describes summer games for the family. |
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Exercise: Get ready for a Holy Land Tour – download each picture or watch the flash drive version, and read the background and the Bible stories that go with each city.
 View Holy Land Tours
Color: Elijah outrunning Ahab’s chariot.. |
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Exercise: Download the map and find this month’s tour cities of Mt. Carmel, Nazareth, Tiberius, Capernaum and Magdala. Now find a modern map of that region. Place the names of today’s cities on the ancient map. What are some of the differences between the two maps? Do you see any major similarities? Why does this region continue to be so important? What’s happening there today?
 Print/Download Map from Holy Land Tours
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| Exercise:
Use your Bible and a good Bible dictionary to discover what else Elijah did during the drought. Find out who fed Elijah at the brook Cherith and in Zaraphath. What unusual things did Elijah do? |
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Exercise: Many people keep a journal or a log of their travels. Keep a journal of each Holy Land city and include all the Bible stories you can find that took place in that city. Using a concordance, look up the name of the city and then read all the stories about that city in the Bible. Include your findings in your daily log of the Holy Land trip. |
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Exercise: Create your own time-line of each of the events in the cities of Mt. Carmel, Nazareth, Tiberius, Capernaum, and Magdala. When did each story happen? How much time passed between the stories? |
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Exercises for Mt. Carmel: As you read the story of Elijah and the Baal prophets, fill in the blanks in God Sends Fire.
Print/Download God Sends Fire
Print/Download God Sends Fire Answer Sheet
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Exercises for Nazareth: |
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Exercises for Tiberius: |
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Exercises for Capernaum: |
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Exercises for Magdala: |
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS |
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Holy Land Tour of Mt. Carmel Read I Kings 18:17-39 Elijah on Mount Carmel; How God Showed His Great Power on Mount Carmel
- Find Mt. Carmel on the map. What is this city called today?
- How far is Mt. Carmel from Megiddo?
- How long would it take you to get from one to the other riding a donkey?
- What would you ask Elijah if you could interview him?
- Elijah sure had a lot of faith in God. How did the people react when God answered by fire?
- What had the prophets of Baal done to the altar?
- Why do you think Elijah let them go first?
- How long did Elijah wait for the prayers of the Baal prophets to be answered?
- Was Elijah patient? Why or why not?
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Holy Land Tour of Nazareth Read Luke 1:26-35; Matt 1:18-25; Luke 2:1-14: The Angel's Secret; The Most Special Baby; The Manger of Bethlehem
- Check the map to see the distance from Mt. Carmel to Nazareth.
- What do you know about the city of Nazareth?
- What Bible characters lived there?
- Which angel of the Lord visited Mary? Joseph?
- What was the special angel message to Mary? to Joseph?
- Where was Jesus born?
- How far is Nazareth from Bethlehem?
- Why is the city of Nazareth so important?
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Holy Land Tour of Tiberius Read Luke 5:1-11: Helpers and Friends; A Net Full of Fishes
- How amazing is it that the Sea of Galilee is the lowest fresh water lake on earth?
- What does that mean to you?
- Isn’t it fun to think of this very lake being the place where Jesus asked Peter and Andrew to drop their nets?
- Would you have listened to this guy on the shore if you had been fishing all night and caught nothing?
- What might you have said to Jesus?
- How easy do you think it is to cast one of those nets?
- How exciting is it to walk on the shore where Jesus and his disciples walked many times?
- Whom else did Jesus call to be “fishers of men”?
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Holy Land Tour of Capernaum Read Mark 1:21-32: A Busy Sabbath Day for Jesus
- Why was Capernaum so important to Jesus?
- How might you find out what the road markers said in Latin?
- What were some of the trades of the people of Capernaum?
- What kind of products might they have sold?
- Name some of the healings that took place in Capernaum.
- Where did Jesus go on the Sabbath?
- When he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, what did he do that was so unusual?
- What was the man’s problem?
- Why were people upset that Jesus healed him?
- Where did he go after the service in the synagogue?
- What was wrong with Peter’s mother-in-law?
- Why did people wait until the end of the day to come and see Jesus? [Sabbath was over and they could travel, it was cooler]
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Holy Land Tour of Magdala Read Matt 5, 6, 7: On a Mountain; The Twelve Disciples and the Sermon on the Mount
- Who is the famous lady from this city?
- What did Jesus heal her of?
- Why was Jesus heard so well from this city?
- Imagine sitting on the mount with Jesus. Which beatitude comes to mind?
- What do you remember of the Sermon on the Mount?
- Name five things Jesus instructed the people to do?
- Why can’t you hide a city that is set on a hill?
- What did Jesus say about the birds and lilies?
- What does “you can tell a tree by its fruit” mean?
- What lessons do we learn about life on the mountain?
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