Jesus walks on water and calms the storm

Even more Future Ticia 2025 is updating yet again… And I’m deleting everything Future Ticia 2023said about this Bible lesson. I’m continuing to leave the funny story, and this is now solely all about Jesus walks on water and calms the storm unit.

So funny story, last week I’ve been without a printer because we were out of ink, and I glance at my lesson plans from Illuminations and it said Jesus feeds the 5000 in Sunday School, and I looked at my blogging calendar and it said today I was supposed to post Jesus feeding the 5000 and walking on water.  I knew in the Bible they happened right after each other, so I went to my computer to look at the files.

There were no pictures in the entire Jesus feeds the 5000 document.  So, I went to look at my picture file, and there it was the folder was titled “Jesus feeds 5000, walks on water, and calms the storm.”

“Well that’s a busy week,” I thought to myself.  No really, that’s what I thought, so I set to preparing to tell the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 and Jesus walking on water, I completely blanked on the whole calming the storm bit.

And I didn’t like the crafts I had, so I decided to throw out the Jesus feeding the 5000 crafts, and instead focus on the walking on water, but there was still the matter of no ink.  So, I winged it and told the story out loud and had the kids video tape it, because it went so well last time they videotaped a lesson.

Then when I sat down quite proud of myself for jamming all of that together, I actually READ the lesson properly and realized I’d made some serious clerical errors, and it was only supposed to be Jesus feeding the 5000, and not Jesus walking on water, but all the cool stuff was Jesus walking on water, and that’s the story I was inspired by……

Almost 300 words later I really told you all of that because I wanted you to feel sorry for me messing up the lesson, and all that.

This is where now past Ticia 2023 updated this post to be a Jesus feeds the 5000 Unit, but that has now been updated to a completely different post. Go there, read that awesome landing page, with many great insights, and my realization I still have so much left to write. So many posts. Now, I highlight 2000 words, many pictures, and hit delete.

Lazy Ticia is going to leave this in, until I find where this is supposed to be, what lesson is it a part of? Or is it supposed to be its own lesson Future Ticia 2025 is so glad I was lazy, because this was the only place I had this lesson ANYWHERE!

Jesus walks on water

Jesus walks on water is one of my favorite stories, mainly because of Peter.  After they’ve finally sent everyone away, Jesus sends his disciples away so he can pray and tells them he’ll catch up.

I have to wonder, how did the disciples think Jesus was going to catch up, they were taking the boat.

Either way, they set off across Galilee and out in the distance they see Jesus walking on water.  Their first response is to think he’s a ghost, and then Peter, because it’s always Peter, says “It’s Jesus,” and he jumps out of the boat.

We all know how it ends, Peter takes his eyes off of Jesus and looks at the waves and starts to sink.

At this point,t most pastors point out Peter took his eyes off of Jesus and that’s his mistake.

But here’s what I’d like to point out.

Peter got out of the boat.

There were 11 other disciples and not one of them got out of the boat.  Peter has many shortcomings, but he is always willing to try and get out there.  He may not think things through, but he got out of the boat.  And that was my challenge to the kids, will you get out of the boat?

Jesus walks on water craft

As I said, I found the Jesus walks on water much more fun for a craft, so that’s the craft we made.  I was going to put together a template for this craft, but Crafting the Word of God has already put together a great Jesus walks on water printable, so why reinvent the wheel.

But, my kids being my kids, their versions turned out slightly different than my sample.

Princess made one very similar to mine.  Superman’s Jesus was a fighting knight, that was eventually fighting a sailing boat with a Gatling gun, no really that’s what he told me, a Gatling gun.

Batman’s I never got a completed picture of.  He kept adding to it.  Eventually there were about 6 popsicle sticks attached, and the boat had become a rocket ship with boosters on it, and Jesus wasn’t walking on water anymore, he was astronaut Jesus walking on the moon.

Jesus walks on water and Jesus calms the storm resources

• Jesus walks on water and calms the storm lesson
•  Jesus walks on water snack
• Jesus walks on water craft
• Jesus calms the storm snack
• Jesus calms the storm craft
• Jesus calms the storm bath tub toy

And with that, I am finally publishing this post, over a week after I’d wanted to, but it’s published.  At some point, probably next year in January (I’ve got new lessons to share through most of this year) I’ll come back and re-do these lessons in a more appropriate fashion.

Coming tomorrow, because I am that far behind Jesus heals a paralytic.

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Originally scheduled January 17, 2015