For Harry, the magical world represents a kind of homecoming.
His school, Hogwarts, becomes his home, and his friends his family. In an age when, in the UK and Europe at least, most people don’t go to church, the Potter books act as both reminders of and initiators into big spiritual and moral ideas.įor example, Harry Potter is famously both an orphan and the victim of bullying at the hands of his horrific cousins, the Dursleys. YET something spiritually more significant is going on. It is unsurprising that adults might take flight into comforting fantasy and images of a fantastical childhood. Equally, as the spiritual writer Alan Jones notes, there is, in the modern world, “an underlying and constant anxiety about the future”. Nostalgia for lost youth is an abiding motif of many adults’ lives. It is easy to dismiss Harry Potter’s appeal to adults as nostalgia for the lost magic of childhood. Now I am about to do something equally ridiculous and wonderful in a parish setting: next weekend, on the release of the final film, I shall be having a Harry Potter “octothon”: seven films, one after the other, followed by an immediate trip to the cinema for the final adaptation. It was fun, intense, and emotionally draining. Every kids church ministry deserves the very best resources for teaching God’s Word, even when they don’t have the financial resources.Įvery week, thousands of churches use our Bible lessons, craft ideas, printable resources, and coloring pages to teach kids the Christian faith.Theological college held many delights, but the real highlight - for a film nut like me - was the opportunity, one Saturday, to turn the common room into a cinema and watch all three Lord of the Rings films back to back. We believe that children and parents benefit from a strong Christian education program in the church. Our website has teaching material for children of all aged – starting with the church nursery (age 0-1 years old), toddlers (age 2-3 years old), preschool (age 4-5 years old), young elementary (age 6-8 years old), older elementary (age 9-10 years old), and preteen youth ministry groups (age 11-12 years old). It is HIS divine will that young people come to faith in Jesus Christ and find salvation through the Gospel and the work of the Holy Spirit to bring them to faith. We believe that God is the loving Father of all kids.
Resurrection sorty free#
helps you tell kids about Jesus by providing age-appropriate Bible study material and Sunday School curriculum – all 100% free online. It tells the account of when Jesus is on the cross and dies.
These would also be great to send home with the children in your class so that they can practice reading the story to their parents. These readers would go nicely with any other Resurrection week curriculum that you may be using, since these are simple readers that come directly from the Bible. I tried to use the main parts of the account of the Resurrection Week. I put this together in 7 parts so that you can use whatever parts you want to cover in your classroom.
Resurrection sorty pdf#
I made them small so that it won’t be too overwhelming for your new readers.Ĭlick on the image above for the downloadable PDF document So I have put these little readers together. We are studying the Resurrection story right now and I wanted something that he could use to learn the story as well and practice his reading skills. My 1st grade son is learning to read and we are working on larger words by using syllables and word parts.
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