Tag: Bible skills

  • Learn the Books of the Bible

    Learn the Books of the Bible

    We have been working with our Sunday School class to learn the Books of the Bible. Several months later all of them are pretty good at finding books of the Bible, and the kids happily compete to earn those M&Ms. This past Sunday, we got a bunch of new kids, and I headed back to…

  • Guess the Bible Meme

    Guess the Bible Meme

    A few years ago I was trying to come up with a game for our middle school Sunday School. There were a wide number of amusing choices available but none of them particularly screamed me, so I was absent-mindedly scrolling through Facebook, because what else would you do when trying to come up with ideas?…

  • 5 memory verse practice games

    5 memory verse practice games

    As a kid I always liked the memory verse practice games we did. There was something exciting about saying the verse and watching as we got rid of the words randomly. Now, as a teacher I realize how helpful those game were to help kids practice, and I wanted to come up with new ways…

  • One Another Bible verses

    One Another Bible verses

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    In youth group this week, the youth pastor said in his talk there are 59 one another verses. After the talk, the girls and I talked through the verses we could remember. There were a few, but we certainly didn’t come up with 59 verses. So I headed home and googled “One another verses,” and…

  • Why learn the books of the Bible in the days of e-readers?

    Why learn the books of the Bible in the days of e-readers?

    I taught 3/4 grade for 10 years. During that time our world went from most kids not having a cell phone to a cell phone becoming somewhat common. Once I had the first kid in my class with a cell phone, I started getting the pushback, “Why should I learn the books of the Bible…