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March 22, 2021
“The Church United”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 31, Session 4—The Hall of Faith
When I was a kid playing baseball with my friends, one of the favorite things for us to do was to copy the batting stances of some our favorite professional players. If you aren’t very familiar with baseball, often players will have rather unique stances when they are up to bat and also when they swing. We loved mimicking...
March 16, 2021
"The Church United": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 31, Session 3: The Church Is Sent to Proclaim Jesus
Some years ago, the television show Touched by an Angel was quite popular. The show featured an angel in human form who visited people and offered them hope, healing, and other blessings and lessons. Its popularity evidenced our craving for hope in a hurting world, but it also reflected our fascination with heavenly messengers. The topic of angels who...
March 15, 2021
“The Church United”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 31, Session 3—Jesus Is Better
We aren’t exactly sure of who wrote the Book of Hebrews and the context of why it was written. Common views of authorship include Luke, Clement, Barnabas, Apollos, Timothy, Peter, Silas, Jude, and of course Paul. Yeah, pretty long list of candidates. While the specific context is not known either, fewer suggestions than those of authorship are offered. One...
March 9, 2021
"The Church United": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 31, Session 2: The Church Is Sent to Encourage New Believers
Jesus promised that the world would hate us because it hated Him (John 15:18-20). Paul told Timothy that “all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12). The early Christians in Jerusalem experienced this kind of suffering firsthand. After Stephen’s martyrdom, most of the Christians left Jerusalem to escape the increased...
March 8, 2021
“The Church United”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 31, Session 2—Barnabas in Antioch
Consider all of the difficulties the young church had been through to this point in its history: Peter and John’s arrest (Acts 4)Ananias and Sapphira’s deception (Acts 5)The apostles on trial (Acts 5)The dispute between the Hebraic and Hellenistic Jews (Acts 6)Stephen’s martyrdom (Acts 7)Severe persecution and scattering (Acts 8) Yes, the church had also experienced great joys, but...
March 1, 2021
"The Church United": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 31, Session 1: The Church Is Sent to All People
After reading Acts 11, you may wonder why Luke would retell the same account of Peter at Cornelius’s house from the previous chapter. Peter recounted his vision, and later the Gentiles’ conversion and the coming of the Holy Spirit upon them, to the Jews in Jerusalem because they did not expect God to save the Gentiles as they were....