Crenshaw Kids!

  Children are often trusting, but they sometimes have difficulty understanding what it means to believe things without seeing them. They don’t have a solid handle on abstract concepts and need to see and experience to fully comprehend. It’s important for faith teachers to communicate to kids that God is very real and loves us, even though we cannot see Him with our eyes or touch Him with our hands. This lesson explains to kids that we sometimes have to trust in God to fill in the gaps of what we don’t see or fully understand. We can believe in Christ and have faith in His promises, based on the Bible.    Our lesson explored the story of Thomas, which told events that took place after Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to His disciples. Thomas was reluctant to believe in the truth of the resurrection without seeing Jesus himself, until he saw him with his own eyes. Jesus said that those who believe without sight are truly blessed, and that includes us today!  We d...

  On the day that Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to different people. Towards the end of the day, He appeared to two of His disciples who were walking from Jerusalem towards Emmaus, which was a 2-3 hour walk. The Bible tells us that the eyes of the men were “restrained,” or not allowed, to know that it was Jesus who joined them on their walk. Jesus asked the men why they were sad. Thank you Dr. Horn for helping make this story come to life so we can understand! Thanks to our disciple volunteers...Andrew and Clay and Cooper for playing the part of Jesus. If Jesus is God, which He is, wouldn’t He have already known why the men were sad? Why do you think He asked them about it then? [Perhaps it was a way to begin conversation. Recognizing the emotions of people around us is important and allows us to talk to them about what they are feeling and could be a way to introduce Jesus to people.]. We can do this daily! The two men told Jesus everything. And then Jesus started e...