Did you think that work just has to be a result of sin? And that no one had to work before Adam and Eve rebelled against God? Actually, the Bible tells us that the first thing God did once He put Adam in the Garden was to give him a job! Let’s find out about the job of the first Adam and learn about how the “second Adam,” Jesus, always knew how to do His job.

The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are two of the most mysterious things ever created by God—this week’s lesson takes us from Genesis to Revelation and into the ancient Near Eastern world.

Genesis 2 says that God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and so we are going to take a look at the deep sleep of Abraham in Genesis 15 and burial practices in the ancient world to find out the original context of this strange account.

Hebrew word alert! Toledot is an amazing word meaning “generations” or “account” but what does it teach us about how we can always count  on God to never lose track of us, forget us, or lose interest in us? We will also talk about the very first Temple in history—the Garden of God!

Prayer can be a very confusing thing—but it doesn’t have to be! As we go through the different sections in the Bible, I will be introducing the kids to how to interact with and trust God based on what we have learned. This first lesson will revolve around the Parable of the King Who Listened and it will teach kids about the access they have to God.

This week, I am going to teach the kids the trick of reading the Bible experientially. It helps bring the Bible into the mindset of history and it is actually a critical thinking exercise that will help kids see what is and is not in the text as they grow older.

What does it mean that God rested? Did He take a nap after six days of hard work? Does God even sleep? We're going to have a cool archaeological lesson this week about ziggurats and about God as King of the Universe He created.

What does it mean to be made in God's image? We're going to talk about archaeology and ancient kings and even about idols. And what about the perfect image of God that we see in Jesus?

People in the ancient world thought that gods and goddesses were responsible for every single part of nature but when God told the story of Creation to Moses, He made sure He did it in a way that people would know the truth. Nature and weather and the sun, moon, and stars are created--just like us!

This week we are going to talk about what the phrase "it was good" means because God says it not once, but six times in Genesis 1 and He even says "it was very good" once. Again, because the Bible is a book about God, we're going to take a look at what "it was good" says about how different He is than all the other false gods being worshipped by the nations surrounding Israel.