April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30 MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker:Traci Sproule

• 5 copies of each binder—one for each teacher

• Teacher Instruction

• Take Home Review Sheet

• Objective

• 16 Semesters

• Customized numbering system:  Semester.Session.Lesson

• This was a whole new way of teaching for everyone involved, including the curriculum, the schedule, the rotation, etc.

• We implemented mandatory Teacher Training

• Every three years: In-depth training for all teachers, explaining of how to teach in this new program

• We decided the older kids would go through in chronological order

• We decided to change all of our upper classes (middle school, high school and adults) over to the 20-week semester system – divided in half, so that we now have 10-week sessions for our upper classes instead of 13-week quarters

• We decided to move the furniture from class to class every four weeks

• We created magnets for the metal door frames, to make easy (but unobtrusive) room identification

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUAnFjvP7jM

Duration 41:55

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30 MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker:Traci Sproule

• Congregation: Palm Beach Lakes church of Christ

December 2009  -  The Initial Meeting: An Idea Sparked

January 2010  -  The Concept Presented: A Curriculum Adopted

Mid 2012  -  The Elder Challenge: A Target Set

January 2013  -  The Teaching Begins: A Work in Progress

• We wanted a curriculum that truly fit our needs

• A program that would teach the Bible

• We wanted an immersive experience

• From the moment the kids entered their hallway

• We wanted a complete teaching resource

• Something that would make it easier for our teachers to prepare

• We evaluated our Media Center

• Loaded with teaching resourced created and developed for over 40 years

• Classroom space would allow for five teaching rooms, plus one other room

• Age 3-4, K, Grade 1, Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5

• First, we developed a curriculum development committee

• Classroom Decoration Committee

• The Curriculum Committee – Writing “Stepping into the Bible”

• We sat down as a group, with open Bibles, and identified Bible lessons to teach

• We ended up identifying 280 Bible lessons to be part of the curriculum

• We wanted the children to rotate classrooms (in Bible scenes) on a frequent basis

• Each classroom represented a particular division of Biblical narrative

• Each age group would have an opportunity to be taught in each classroom

• Each lesson plan was intended for all age groups – tailored by the teacher to their specific class

• Objective

• Design and decorate FIVE classrooms for each semester, with each classroom representing an immersion into one of the 4-lesson sessions

• Created the 2-week mini-session

• Transform the entire hallway where our children’s classes meet

• Each classroom to be stocked with visual aids to help enhance teaching the lesson

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9beg5Z6iD0

Duration 40:40

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30PM Tent Speaker

Speaker: Jeff Jenkins

• There is a lot of times in John where Jesus says I am

Speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPDt5PPZ5M8

Duration 39:10

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 3:30 MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker:David Sproule

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLQj7kurnY

Duration 40:51

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30 MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker:David Sproule

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mBFZooJPFg

Duration: 45:43

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30PM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: John Moore

John 12 -

12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”

9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.

12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,

“Hosanna!”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:

15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;

16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.

17 Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 18 Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.

23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

30 Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.

34 The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah will remain forever, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

35 Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. 36 Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.

37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

“Lord, who has believed our message

39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

40 “He has blinded their eyes

41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.

42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God.

44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”

John looks at John 12 and reflects on why Mary anoints Jesus.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCaxUkincU

Duration 41:38

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Tent Speaker

Speaker: Scott Cain

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ESJBRbG2k

Duration 41:43

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM MPR 1 Speaker

Speakers: Kathy Pollard and Carla Moore

During the Equipped Workshop Kathy and Carla thought it would interesting to have a live crossover episode of their popular podcast Looking Up! With Kathy and Carla 

Along with some normal parts of their podcast, the two ladies start reviewing past notes from the margins in the book of John in their bibles.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-RAWFsdQJc

Duration 42:09

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Justin Rogers

A Friend of the Family

Divine absence

THE IRONY OF “LAZARUS”

DIVINE ABSENCE ENHANCES GOD’S GLORY (V. 4)

DIVINE ABSENCE DOES NOT SIGNAL A LOSS OF CONCERN (V. 5)

Personal confrontation

MARTHA—FAITHFUL FRUSTRATION (VV. 20-27)

MARY—PERSONAL INSULT (VV. 28-32)

JESUS IS EMOTIONAL (V. 33)

JESUS IS “SKEPTICAL” (V. 34)

JESUS IS JUDGED (V. 36-37)

Astonishing miracle

MARTHA’S INTERRUPTION (VV. 38-40)

JESUS’ PRAYER (VV. 41-42

LAZARUS’ RESURRECTION (VV. 43-44)

“Things are not always as they seem”

Conflicts in the narrative

   -Problem of pain

   -Problem of persecution

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w80FGksOLIo

Duration 38:51

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:10PM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Maddox Wilson

John 13:34 - 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:12 - 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Ephesians 4:32 - 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13 - 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Luke 6:31 - 31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

1 John 4:11 - 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Matthew 22:36-40 - 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Using a few points Maddox illustrates the importance of love for each other and how we can show this love in our lives. We should follow the example shown by Christ. The power of love is in the actions we take.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsFBdTXL1Vc&list=PL6RXulneS57-f64A4gRQRIrrFFpl2lKuj&index=38

Duration 4:57