You Are Special to God

Just as no two carved pumpkins are identical, so also God created no two people alike.   Using select verses from Psalm 139, this short tract will help kids understand how special they are to God as to how he created them.   A mention of various ways that God shows his love for them will also […]

Is That You Behind That Mask?

This tract includes select verses from Psalm 139 reminding kids that God always sees them, and that there is no place they can go that God doesn’t seem them, even behind a mask.  One the one hand, this fact is very reassuring to kids, but on the other hand it can be somewhat discomforting that […]

Numbers 20 Questions (select verses)

Warm up in pairs:  Where is the most desert like place you have ever lived or traveled to?   What are your memories?   It could be a literal desert or a spiritual desert. Numbers 20:2-5 Do you think this was the first time they were out of water? Exodus 17:6 tells of a time water was […]

The Church of the Greener Grass

Have you ever wondered why a certain church become the one that everyone in town wants to go to?   I know I have.   And then why does that church lose that status and almost overnight another church takes that status?    This is a strange phenomenon indeed. I have witnessed this in the community we currently […]

Numbers 14 Questions (Selected verses)

Warm up and pray in pairs:  Have there been times in your Christian life that you felt like you were wandering in the wilderness?   Did you finally get a break through? Numbers 14:11-16 Questions What did the Lord say he was going to do to the Israelites because they despised him and refused to trust […]

Numbers 13 Questions

Warm up in pairs:   In this chapter, Caleb and Joshua were in the minority,  but they were in the right.   Has there been a time in your life that you were in a similar situation that you would be willing to share?    Numbers 13:17-20 What similarities do you see between the 12 […]

Numbers 11:4-17 Questions

Warm up in pairs:   When the going got tough, the Israelites recalled “the good old days” in Egypt.    Were the good old days for you really that good?   What was good about them and what was not so good? Numbers 11:4-9 What do you think of when you think of riffraff? Here is refers to […]

Numbers 9 Questions

Warm up in pairs:  Can you think of a time the Lord closed a door in your life and you thought it was a mistake, but then later realized he was right? Numbers 9:15-16 Questions Does anyone know what the word “tabernacle” means? It means to dwell and describes God’s dwelling place among his people.  […]

Does it seem like evil has the upper hand? Part 2

“The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.”  Proverbs 15:29 Since I began this series several months ago, does it seem like the wicked still have the upper hand?   Or does it seem the wicked have lost their grip?  Whatever the case may be, it is important to […]

Does it seem like evil has the upper hand? Part 1

Between the pandemic, the violence/anarchy, and a seemingly complete loss of sanity in some cases, does it fell like evil has the upper hand in the eternal struggle of good versus evil? On days I feel that way.   And I suspect most of you have at some point in 2020, a year that will soon […]