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All our sins have been paid for by the highest price in all the universe. They have been paid for by the blood of Jesus.

This is the beginning of the story of God and His people.

A boy learns about grace

Keys for Life!

God loves you. He wants to help you. You need to choose to let him help you. Otherwise your choice is against him helping you.

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering.

Esau jumped off his camel and ran to his brother, Jacob. He threw his arms around him with tears in his eyes, and said, “My brother! I have missed you so much!” Jacob could hardly believe what was happening.

Jacob knew that everything he had came from God, and not from his own doing. And so God gave him a new name, a princely name.

God let Jacob see a part of the world we never see, but a part that is there all around us.

Step aside, Sam I Am, Jimmy Jim is here, and he wants you to try Jesus! 

And then at last, Jonah understood that God truly is slow to anger, and always willing to forgive us when we turn to Him.

Poor Joseph didn't know what to do. He told his dream to his father, and even his father had enough of his nonsense, "You think your mother, your brothers and I are going to bow down and worship you?!"

Faith helps us to look over and above our troubles to God who is our helper.

Faith helps us to look over and above our troubles to God who is our helper.

Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.

Aaron had just finished his most difficult model yet when his sister, Amy, accidentally broke it. She was sorry, but Aaron didn't care. So, he stole and buried her favorite doll, which was stuffed with seeds. He didn't realize that his act would come back to haunt him.

This is an original drama I wrote to use in our Wednesday night program. I printed off scripts and let some of my older children play the parts. I provided them with simple makeshift props. The kids had a great time with it!

Through a class assignment and a child's innocence, God can go anywhere and can use any one to share His message of love.

Nicodemus left Jesus that night, still very much in the dark. Now, this next part isn't in the Bible. But it could have happened something like this...

God does like to do crazy, impossible, wonderful things. And sometimes they are so crazy and impossible and wonderful, they make us laugh. God must have a great sense of humor.

The story of Enoch

This short story/ talk, based around Hebrews 12:28b-29, talked about God's desire to fill us with himself during worship. We used this story as part of our "Polar Fun in the Sun" party (which can be found on the Kidology site in the Creative Ideas Zone).

If you were accused of being a Christian, what would a jury decide based on the evidence?

One good turn deserves another!

God told Noah to build an ark and take two of every kind of animal on the ark.

The Dark Evil Man and the Cleats of Peace

We will be rewarded not for what we do, but for our obedience.

The Dark Evil Man and the Breastplate of Righteousness

God is always available to us and willing to give us the strength we need. He loves you so much. All He wants you to do is ask Him to help.

Samson defeated the Philistine army, and for 20 years he led the people of Israel against the Philistines.

That night, after Samson had fallen asleep in Delilah's lap, she cut his hair.

How satan uses our children to get to us

a life given for another.

The Dark Evil Man and the Helmet of Salvation

This story illustrates the great sacrifice Jesus made for us in becoming a man that He might show us a better way.

Before God even started to make the world, he had a plan. His plan is for us to know how good He is, and how much He loves us, and that one day we will come to live with Him forever in heaven.

This story of the Sower and the Seeds includes ideas for how to tell the story interactively using the children to act it out as the story is told.

Watch as Karl performs a Story Sticks demo of the Story of the Paralytic Man. 

Santa finds out his true job.

This story is based on the parable of the sower and shows what type of seed you should be and where you should be grounded.

We might not think we have very much, but God can take the little we think we have, and multiply it a hundred times!

A story of the creation account

A child finds love at christmas

Bunny and caterpillar learn some lessons about how God answers our prayers indirectly or does not answer them for a reason.

Sarah said, “Who would believe that I would have a son in my old age? But God has brought me joy and laughter! Everyone who hears of this will laugh with me!”

“The God of heaven can save us,” answered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered. “His power is greater than yours, and He can save us from your fiery furnace. But even if He chooses not to save us, we will not worship your god, or bow down before the golden statue you have set up in the plain of Dura.”

A mother helps her small child deal with her mother's impending death

We have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, friends and family.

If it had not been for the kind and generous ants who shared their food, the grasshopper would have starved.

The story of Noah and the ark