Turn the ordinary alphabet into the ALPHA-BEST teaching tool you'll use this year! A to Z Object Talks That Teach About the Old Testament is packed with memorable messages that will delight and excite your kids about God's Word. From ARKS to ZITHERS, kids will learn life-changing Bible truths along with tons of cool Old Testament trivia as they make unique crafts and edible wonders to help lock in the learning! Here are 26 clever messages that turn ordinary show-n-tell object talks into exciting discover-n-do- delights! Just imagine the learning fun as kids ... Make Hebrew soap and discover how being clean honors the Lord. Slide into super sandals and march off to tell others about God's love. Whip up cute quail salads and explore God's tasty provision. Create swaddling bracelets and realize we're wrapped in God's protection. Bring the Old Testament awesomely alive and make it radically relevant for your kids as you guide them in learning fascinating Bible facts, way-cool Old Testament trivia, and powerful Bible truths from A to Z! Perfect for Sunday School, VBS, children's church, or anytime you want to offer your kids a change of pace! Be sure to look for more A to Z learning fun with A to Z Object Talks That Teach About the New Testament!

Turn the ordinary alphabet into the ALPHA-BEST teaching tool you'll use this year! A to Z Object Talks That Teach About the New Testament is packed with memorable messages that will delight and excite your kids about God's Word. From ANGELS to ZACCHAEUS, kids will learn life-changing Bible truths along with tons of cool New Testament trivia as they make unique crafts and edible wonders to help lock in the learning! Here are 26 clever messages that turn ordinary show-n-tell object talks into exciting discover-n-do- delights! Just imagine the learning fun as kids ... * Press oil from olives and learn how the world's sins pressed upon Jesus. * Stuff delicious dates and discover about being God's good fruit. * Create cool kaffiyehs and explore how Jesus covers us. * Make awesome incense and learn how our prayers rise to God Bring the New Testament awesomely alive and make it radically relevant for your kids as you guide them in learning fascinating Bible facts, way-cool New Testament trivia, and powerful Bible truths from A to Z! Perfect for Sunday School, VBS, children's church, or anytime you want to offer your kids a change of pace! Be sure to look for more A to Z learning fun with A to Z Object Talks That Teach About the Old Testament!

Veteran youth workers Helen Musick and Duffy Robbins dip into their bag of tried-and-true teaching tricks to present this collection of 52 of their most effective object lessons. Easy and fast to prepare, these lessons are perfect for use in devotionals, Sunday School lessons, talks at camps and retreats, and even sermons for both junior and senior high groups.

Nearly 200 ready-to-use ideas for hard-hitting Bible lessons and relevant worship services for teenagers! - Bible Study Meetings . . . Techniques and approaches for making any Bible lesson -- topical or scriptural -- appealing to unchurched teenagers as well as to preachers' kids. - Creative Bible Lessons . . . 'Martha and Mary Malpractice' (page 67), 'Noah and the Ark I. Q. Test' (page 43), and 70 more very different, very fun, and very solid Bible lessons. - Theme Lessons . . . Build an entire lesson on a specific theme. Try 'Feet Meeting' (page 118) -- foot games followed by a lesson on the symbolic importance of washing each other's feet. You aren't into feet? Okay, what about the hands of Jesus? Or the light versus darkness? They're all here! - Bible Games . . . These won't speed your kids into seminary, but they certainly go a long way toward making the Bible interesting to your students -- and fun, too! - Worship Services . . . Some are informal, others have a liturgical feel -- and all are innovative. Here are the ideas for communion, confession, music, prayer, and Scripture reading. And More . . . Full lessons (all the components are here, from opening mixers to closing prayers), board games (with reproducible game 'boards'), and ideas for using guest speakers and special projects. Whether you're a youth worker or a recreation director at a church, school, club, or camp -- Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, and Worship Ideas is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

The Bible is a photo album, brimming with self-portraits of a God who wants to be known. God has put these pictures in the Bible to reveal his character. By examining them, we discover who God is and why he’s worth knowing better. And we discover something else: who he wants us to be. He wants us to copy his picture into our own character. Wild Truth Bible Lessons--Pictures of God 2 is a guide to 12 God-pictures taken straight from the Photo Album. They are active Bible lessons for junior high and middle school Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God and presented energetically, relevantly, and scripturally in the companion student book Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God. The lessons are loaded with off-the-wall and easy-to-do discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, games with a point. And, of course, Bible passages and studies that springboard junior highers from the abstract into the concrete as (open Bibles in hand) they explore the nature of God in a lively, relevant way, and then begin practicing in their own lives the traits of God.Here’s how the lessons are organized: * Picture Prep grabs your group’s attention to prepare them for what’s ahead.* Action Shot takes your students into the Bible to catch God in the act of revealing his character.* Self-Portrait explores the given aspect of God’s character...how it makes God just that much more awesome...and why it’s a very good trait for us to have, too.* Print It! challenges your students to print God’s picture into their own lives by living out his character in an immediately practical way.12 lessons

Wild Bible characters . . . wild activities, games, discussion starters, and video ideas . . . wild truths for living. Put them all together, blend well, and you’ve got Wild Truth Bible Lessons 2--12 more dynamite lessons for junior high youth groups by Mark Oestreicher. Like its fun, creative predecessor, Wild Truth Bible Lessons, this book invites kids to discover the adventure of faith through the events and responses of real Bible people who did wild things for God. Based on another 12 personalities from the list of characters in Wild Truth Journal: 50 Life Lessons from the Scriptures, each lesson reaches back into history to help junior highers learn about Bible people and principles--and then reaches forward to challenge students to make better decisions, better friends, and better lives. 12 lessons.

Here are 12 active Bible lessons for junior high Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God presented in Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God--energetically, relevantly, and scripturally. The lessons are loaded with off-the-wall and easy-to-do discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, and games with a point. And of course, there are plenty of Bible passages and studies to springboard junior highers from the abstract into the concrete as (open Bibles in hand) they explore the nature of God in a lively, relevant way — then begin practicing the traits of God in their own lives. 12 lessons.

These twelve studies about the people of Corinth and their founding pastor Paul pave the way for youth workers and Sunday school teachers to teach junior high and high school students about conversion, transformation, failure, leadership, authority, and God's constant, saving love even in the midst of people making a mess of things. 12 lessons.

The fourth volume of the best-selling Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks series delivers all-new, lively, effective illustrations, stories, parables, and anecdotes from the files of many of youth ministry's best speakers.