Context for Kids

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.

What does the first chapter of Genesis say about the power of God's Word? How is His ability to create things totally different from our ability to make things? What does the Gospel of John say about Jesus's identity as the Word of God? What miracles did He perform to prove that His words are creative too?

This is my fun first introduction to what Bible context is and why it is so important. To do this, I talk about a whole lot of funny and sometimes gross things that people do, wear, eat, and say that don't make sense to people from other cultures. Bad news, parents, we're going to talk about some of your fashion choices when you were kids. We'll play the idiom game and discuss probably the funniest verse in the entire Bible and how, without context, it just sounds very ridiculous in Hebrew. If you want a transcript, be sure to check out my main website www.contextforkids.com and if you want an easy way to listen to this on your tv, check out my youtube channel, Context for Kids.

I am very excited to be airing a new radio show on Hebrew Nation Radio www.HebrewNationOnline.com starting in November 2020.As always, we will take all that complicated PhD material and boil it down into interesting kid-sized pieces. We will also be talking a lot about Biblical character and what it really means to follow our Savior Yeshua/Jesus. I am very excited about this and hope you will be too. Make sure to subscribe to the channel so that you find out about new programs just in case you miss one. I will also be posting transcripts for each broadcast for the hearing impaired over at www.contextforkids.com each week.