Kids Leader Training
“Jesus the Servant”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 23, Session 1—The Sermon on the Mount
One of the more important questions we can help our kids answer is this one: What does a follower of Jesus—one of His disciples—look like? This question should naturally flow from our sharing of the gospel. We start with who God is and what He has done for us in Christ, but we cannot stop …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 22, Session 4—Jesus Healed a Man Who Was Blind
This week we study perhaps my favorite Bible story in all of Scripture. I have enjoyed this passage for quite a while, but came to love it deeply about thirteen years ago. This week, I thought you might appreciate hearing the story of why. What in the World Are We Doing? My wife and I …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 22, Session 3—Jesus Healed a Man Who Was Lame
I think I have shared some about my lawn mower struggles (yes, first-world problems). Welp, we have experienced a fresh batch of these struggles in the Dembowczyk home—actually, in the yard to be more precise. Last weekend, our riding lawnmower died (again). It wasn’t starting a few weeks ago, so I had just put a …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 22, Session 2—Jesus Healed a Woman and a Girl
I tend to be a driven and focused person. So much so that at times my wife will laugh at me for being oblivious to my surroundings when I am thinking on something. In those times, I don’t like distractions. I want to put all of my energy–all of my attention—on the task at hand. …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 22, Session 1—Jesus Healed Ten Men
As I write this post in mid-April, much, if not most, of the entire world is still locked down in a state of social distancing because of COVID-19. It is amazing how quickly and deeply this “new normal” has set in, so much so that these days when I see people gathered in a movie, …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Messiah”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 21, Session 4—Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
Sometimes social norms make sense, other times they don’t. Don’t chew with your mouth open makes total sense. Which side of the plate the fork and knife belong on, not so much. Holding a door open for someone makes sense. Everyone facing the same way on an elevator, not so much. You get the idea. …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Messiah”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 21, Session 3—Jesus and Nicodemus
The encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3 can be challenging, at least the middle part of it. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, one of the few who seemed to be open-minded about who Jesus was. So early in Jesus’ ministry, Nicodemus went to Jesus at night, likely because he did not want to be …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Messiah”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 21, Session 2—Jesus Taught in Nazareth
Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you aren’t as special as you might think you are? Perhaps you got a Christmas gift from a boss, only to discover everyone else got that gift too. Perhaps you purchased what you thought were rare, premium tickets to an event, only to discover that about …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Messiah”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 21, Session 1—Jesus’ Early Miracles
Has anyone ever asked you if you were hungry? Chances are, they asked not purely because they cared about your well-being, but because they were hungry too. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course—it’s not like we should take offense to such a question—but the point is that motivations can be more complicated than meets …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Messiah”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 20, Session 4—Jesus Called Disciples
I haven’t had a good relationship with riding lawnmowers. One of the times when we lived in Florida, I had an old riding mower that I used on my acre+ property. But it seems like every single time I went out to mow, there would be something wrong with it such as a flat tire …
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