Weekly updates and training helps for use with the Bible Studies for Life Kids Curriculum.
This session will lead kids to focus on the facts of the Christmas story, learning that Jesus’ birth is part of God’s plan to send a Savior.
This session will connect God’s choice of Mary and Joseph as the family for Jesus with the prophecies about the Messiah. God promised that a virgin would give birth to the Messiah, and He chose Mary.…
This session will help kids understand that the prophets told about Jesus’ birth hundreds of years before Jesus came. God planned to send a Messiah, His Son, and told that the special child would be …
God did not just create the universe and leave it to operate on its own. This session will guide kids to understand that God works throughout creation. He provides for His creation. He continues to w…
Kids: This session will guide kids to understand that even though God created people to have a relationship with Him, Adam and Eve made a deliberate choice to break that relationship through disobedi…
Kids: This session will lead kids to understand that God created people—man and woman. God created people in His image, unlike anything else He created. God placed people in charge of His creation, t…
Kids: Kids hear lots of different ideas on the beginning of creation. This session will emphasize that nothing existed but God in the beginning. God created everything through His word and His delibe…
Kids: Elijah called for a showdown between God and Baal on Mount Carmel. God responded in a mighty way. He is the only God, who deserves honor and obedience. This session will help kids think about t…
This session will lead kids to realize that the culture and world around them is often hostile to God and His will. Help kids understand that people are tempted to make choices against God. But God w…
God called Gideon. Gideon listened to what God said to do. Gideon obeyed God and achieved a great victory for God. This session will guide kids to understand God’s hand in all that happened—the choic…
Moses saw a miraculous thing—the burning bush that was not consumed. God spoke to Moses, telling him that God knew what was happening to His people and was sending Moses to free them from Egypt. This…
Kids: Paul saw something that Peter did that was not right. Peter chose to act in a way that seemed to exclude the Gentile believers. Paul told Peter the right things to do. This session will help ki…
A young ruler came to talk with Jesus. Although the Bible does not tell what the rich man chose to do, he went away very sad. People can choose not to follow God, or they can choose to follow God. Ea…
Jesus visited His friends Mary and Martha. Note the two different ways the women chose to respond to Jesus’ visit. Martha worked on preparations; Mary sat and listened. Jesus stressed the importance …
Daniel faced a crisis. The king sent food from his table for the men to eat, food that was unclean to Jews. Daniel chose to follow God’s Word, even when it was risky. This session will emphasize to k…
Kids: Before Moses died, he laid hands on Joshua, signifying that Joshua was God’s choice as the new leader. Joshua listened to God as he became the leader. Joshua continued to choose to listen to Go…
Jesus helped His disciples in a miraculous way. Jesus, through His power, showed love for His friends and helped them have what they needed. This session will help kids understand that no matter what…
Kids will learn that Jesus is God’s Son, and He can heal diseases and sicknesses as only God can. In this case, Jesus did not heal Lazarus while he was sick; Jesus came and restored Lazarus to life! …
Kids will learn that the power of Jesus extends over all creation, and all obey His commands. We can emphasize that Jesus is not like any other man who lived on earth. He was fully God and fully man.…
This session will help kids understand that Jesus was God in human form so He could do things that no man could do. We can lead kids to know that the signs and miracles that Jesus did helped people u…