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This video shows how to make Resurrection Rolls and Crown of Thorns Bread. These are really cool snacks to have around Easter time or anytime you are talking about the cross and resurrection of Jesus.

This video shows how to make the rainbow dip that we do with our lesson on Noah. You can enjoy this treat anytime though. You can dip vanilla wafers into it too. We use animal crackers when doing our lesson on Noah.

This kids lesson is about the Tower of Babel and how God used tongues to divide the people and now uses tongues to unite His people. All people who receive the gift of the Holy Ghost will speak in a heavenly language. This is a supernatural event that God wants YOU to experience.

This kids lesson teaches them that they are valuable to God no matter what their life is like. Jesus came for the broken and dirty and lost. Your life is valuable to God.

This illustration of changing a liquid and a solid into a gas shows us a transformation. We must allow Jesus to transform our old sinful life into a new life in Him just like He did. Saul the Christian hater, became Paul the one who wrote over 1/2 the New Testament.

This illustration shows how Jesus can clean up our lives and make us a brand new person. When He transforms our life, He cleans us up and gets us ready to go to heaven where everything will be shiny and beautiful.

Ever thought about this? Christians say that they serve a Holy God, that their lives are governed by the Holy Bible, that they want to spend eternity in a Holy Heaven, and that they are filled with the Holy Spirit. And yet, it is taboo in most churches today to speak about the subject of Holiness! Anyone who dares to mention it is thought to be super-spiritual, or unfashionable, or even Pharisaical. And the devil just laughs as one of his greatest deceptions continues to infect the lives of so many church members. Good is called evil, light is called darkness, sweet is called bitter (Isaiah 5:20) … and holiness is called outdated, old-fashioned, and obsolete.In the very last letter he ever wrote, the Apostle Paul emphasized to Timothy how important it was to depart from iniquity, flee lusts, and follow righteousness. “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use” (2 Timothy 2:21). He wanted his young protégé to be a Vessel of Honor so that his life could be useful and effective in God’s Kingdom.

Ever thought about this? Christians say that they serve a Holy God, that their lives are governed by the Holy Bible, that they want to spend eternity in a Holy Heaven, and that they are filled with the Holy Spirit. And yet, it is taboo in most churches today to speak about the subject of Holiness! Anyone who dares to mention it is thought to be super-spiritual, or unfashionable, or even Pharisaical. And the devil just laughs as one of his greatest deceptions continues to infect the lives of so many church members. Good is called evil, light is called darkness, sweet is called bitter (Isaiah 5:20) … and holiness is called outdated, old-fashioned, and obsolete.In the very last letter he ever wrote, the Apostle Paul emphasized to Timothy how important it was to depart from iniquity, flee lusts, and follow righteousness. “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use” (2 Timothy 2:21). He wanted his young protégé to be a Vessel of Honor so that his life could be useful and effective in God’s Kingdom.

The discussion dives deep into the often-taboo topic of holiness in Christianity. It challenges perceptions of holiness as outdated, emphasizing it as progress, relationship, and liberty. The conversation insists that holiness protects and empowers believers while addressing both internal and external spiritual growth. Topics like sexual ethics, communal responsibilities, and nurturing new believers are highlighted, urging churches to prioritize belonging and unity over judgment. Above all, it reminds listeners that true holiness is about reaching people, not meeting others' expectations.

This is a bonus lesson for this series. We talk a lot about faith in church, but children may not even know what having faith means. This lesson will explain what faith is and why we need faith. We will follow this up by 10 lessons on people in the New Testament that had faith.