Dear Friends, My name is Kathy Merrill, and I have been hired by Principia School to be the Bible Coordinator. Included in my job description is the role of encouraging and helping people to study the Bible more deeply. One of the ways I can do this is to write a weekly blog called “Bible Insights for Christian Science Families.” This blog will include ideas on how to study the weekly Bible Lesson more deeply, and it will also have ideas for how to teach the Bible to young children of all ages.
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Kathy Merrill Kathy.merrill@principia.edu 618 980 2207 cell 314-434-2100 work
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Ideas for "Christ Jesus:" This week's Lesson is built around the seven "I AM" statements that Jesus gives to describe himself. The sections of the lesson expand on each idea. What research I've done on them, I will color code in red. Please keep checking the post, because it might take me a while to work on them.
John 6:35, 48 I am the bread of Life
Research on: I am the bread of life. John 6. 38 48 to 51
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John 8:12, 9:5 I am the light of the world
Research on: I am the light of the world Jn 8. 12
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John 10:9 I am the door of the sheep
Research on: I am the door Jn 10. 7 9 10
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John 10:11 I am the good shepherd
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John 11:25 I am the resurrection and the life
John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life
John 15:1 I am the true vine
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Research on: Expressed image of his glory" Heb. 1:1-3, 9
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Research on two healings in the lesson:
Luke 8: The Raising of Jairus's Daughter
Mark 10: Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
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Outstanding article from the Christian Science Journal: "Christ Jesus, the True Scientist," W. Taylor Stone, December 1919
Christ Jesus, The True Scientist
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CHILDREN'S IDEAS for parents to teach the Bible at home or Sunday School (some of these ideas are not appropriate for Sunday School, but could be used with children at home):
www.biblefunforkids.com has many good ideas for crafts on the Bible for young children. If you click on their homepage and go to the right side, you'll see a Table of Contents that gives you many characters from the Bible.
To find the idea below, click on Jesus and then go to the names for Jesus. I am sharing a few of the little posters with you of names that are in this week's lesson, but there are many more names for Jesus that she uses. See what you think!
If you don't like these, take the chart of the "I am" statements above, and make your own on Poster Board.
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It is always a good idea to have a map of Palestine in Jesus' Time to locate places in the stories in the Lesson. Here is a map from www.biblosfoundation.org
See if your children can find Caesarea Philippi in the northeast, Capernaum -- north of the Sea of Galilee-- where Jesus healed more people that any other place, and Jericho -- north of the Dead Sea where the healing of Blind Bartimaeus happened.
map of Palestine in Jesus' Day
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Craft for Jairus' Daughter
http://www.jesus-without-language.net/jairus-daughter-luke-8-make-2/
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Animated video for the raising of Jairus' daughter: Please be sure and preview this to know if you'd like to share this with your children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEH18yS6a0
Crafts for teaching the stories of walking on the water, and feeding the 5000:
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Jesus and the loaves and the fishes
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One way to begin sharing the Bible with your children is to read and talk about a Bible story every night before they go to bed. This can begin as early as two years old. There are hundreds of beginning Bibles to choose from with great pictures.
Here are some examples:
Bibles to use for Preschool Parents
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I hope these ideas are helpful!
With love,
Kathy