Dear Friends, Here is the link to Chaplain Janet Horton's Chapel Talk from Monday morning at the Upper School, if you would like to listen to it. I will put up the link to her Bible talk given on Thursday night, October 20, next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKtAerwqirg
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Possible ideas for the sections of this week's Lesson: (These are just ideas that have been coming to me. You may see completely different ideas.)
Possible Theme: everlasting love; everlasting mercy; everlasting kindness
Section I: God is Love—impartial and universal Love
Section II: Cain and Abel Story—Divine Love corrects and governs man
"Through repentance, spiritual baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material beliefs and false individuality." 242: 1-3
Baptizo (baptism) related to making a pickle
The gift of baptism by Elise Moore
Section III: Woman taken in adultery: Repentance and Reformation
Section IV: Jesus washes disciples' feet: spiritual baptism
Section V: Raising of Dorcas: Regeneration (producing anew, new birth, born again)
Section VI: God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin
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Word Study for "Everlasting Punishment"
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Research on: Gen 4: Cain and Abel
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The Temple is the place where Jesus heals the woman taken in adultery. This healing probably happened in the Court of Women.
Research: John 5. Woman Taken in Adultery
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Research: Acts 9. Peter raises Dorcas
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Research: Heb 1. 1 to 3, 9 express image
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CHILDREN'S IDEAS:
There are five different ways to teach about Peter and Dorcas on this website link. Scroll down to see all of them. Click on the blue places where it says "Click here to download" to see if any of this might be helpful to you:
http://www.biblefunforkids.com/2016/06/peter-and-dorcas.html#more
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Other ideas for very young children:
Nothing Can Be added to a mind already full
Stickers that tell Bible stories
I hope these ideas are helpful to you in some way. Please share the blog if you think it would be helpful to someone else.
With love,
Kathy