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March 17, 2020
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind: A Bible Story for Kids about Faith and Mercy
Take a break. Break open the Word of God with your kids and read the story of the faith of the man born blind. To get more stories like this one to share with your kids, sign up for Bible Breaks.
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind: A Bible Story for Kids about Faith and Mercy John 9 Jesus healed many people during his lifetime. Some of them were sick, but others were paralyzed or blind like the man in this story. Some people thought that a sickness or physical disability was a punishment from...
March 16, 2020
Which is Correct: Coronavirus or Corona Virus? (One word or two?)
News and social media posts about COVID-19 are everywhere. I have seen it spelled both ways, but which is correct: coronavirus or corona virus? Is it one word or two words?
CoronavirusRegardless of what auto-correct and spell checks might tell you, the correct way to refer to this pandemic is: coronavirus (one word).
Here are a few other facts and references when writing about the pandemic and the disease. I hope it will be a handy cheatsheet for people writing about it online, but...
February 2020 Project Report
Here is a report of where I spent my time and how well I progressed towards reaching my goals last month.
My 2020 Goals Professional Goals:95% / Double the number of members of The Religion Teacher (December 2017 to present) (+1%)
254,549/1,000,000 words for kids (A part of my #1millionwordsforkids goal) (+18,102 words)
37/260 1-Hour Writing Sessions (Goal removed)
500/500 Resources (Videos/Worksheets) for Members of The Religion Teacher (Goal complete!)
Personal Goals:10/75 books read...
March 12, 2020
The Wandering Warrior: A Psalm 95 Story for Children
There was a great warrior who wandered all the earth in search for a king who was worthy of his skill as a fighter.
He travelled to the sea and met with a king in the castle on the edge of the water. This king owned many great ships to sail the seas. He was a powerful man, but the warrior could see that he was very greedy and worried he might lose his ships in war. He wanted the warrior to fight to protect his wealth.
So the warrior travelled to a desert kingdom in the south. There he met...
March 10, 2020
The Parable of the Persistent Widow: A Bible Story about Prayer for Kids
This story is featured in a collection of Bible stories for kids about Lent calledTake Up Your Cross. You can sign up to receive the entire book for free when youjoin the Bible Breaks Newsletter.
The Parable of the Persistent Widow Luke 18:1-8 In this parable about prayer Jesus encourages his disciples to be persistent. Too many times we stop asking God for help because we give up or get distracted by other things in life.
As you read this parable, pay attention what the widow did when the...
March 5, 2020
The Sole Stick Figure: A Psalm 33 Story for Children
As we journey through our lives, we can easily lose hold of the fact that God has a plan for us. We can get caught up in loneliness and fear. But if we place our trust in the God of mercy, we will start to see the truth and beauty of the world around us. When we pause and place our trust in God, we find many reasons to give thanks and praise to the one who made us.
This is the story of an artist who crafts a painting around a lone stick figure drawing. As the painting unfolds, the stick...
March 3, 2020
40 Years in the Desert: A Bible Story for Kids
This story is featured in a collection of Bible stories for kids about Lent calledTake Up Your Cross. You can sign up to receive the entire book for free when youjoin the Bible Breaks Newsletter.
Forty Years in the Desert Numbers 13-14
Why did the Israelites wander the desert for forty years?
The season of Lent lasts for forty days, but the Israelites wandered the desert for forty years! God freed his people from slavery in Egypt and promised to give them the land of Canaan.
Before they...
February 28, 2020
The Temptation of Jesus: A Bible Story for Children
This story is featured in a collection of Bible stories for kids about Lent called Take Up Your Cross. You can sign up to receive the entire book for free when you join the Bible Breaks Newsletter.
The Temptation of Jesus Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-12
The season of Lent lasts for forty days and forty nights, the same amount of time Jesus spent in the desert after his Baptism. One of the reasons we give something up during Lent is to train ourselves to resist temptation like Jesus...
February 27, 2020
The Sorrowful Song to the Sun: A Psalm 51 Story for Children
Psalm 51 is one of the most popular penitential prayers in the Book of Psalms. It is attributed to David and his repentance to the Prophet Nathan when he confronted him about the king’s sin with Bathsheba. It is a popular Psalm during Lent appearing in the liturgies for both Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday of Lent.
You can read this story on this website or you can download a PDF printout along with discussion questions here:
The Sorrowful Song...
February 25, 2020
Dust to Dust: A Bible Story for Kids about Ash Wednesday
This story is the first in a collection of Bible stories for kids about Lent called Take Up Your Cross. You can sign up to receive the entire book for free when you join the Bible Breaks Newsletter.
Dust to Dust: A Bible Story for Kids about Ash WednesdayWe begin each season of Lent with a day called Ash Wednesday. It is common to have our foreheads marked with ashes as a sign of our desire for mercy.
This is the story of God’s punishment for Adam and Eve after they ate the forbidden...
