Children’s Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2016

By Vanessa Williams Snyder

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s quarterly. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, each of the thirteen lessons includes the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Dec 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781681671130

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CHILDREN’S TEACHER

Teaching Companion to Growing with Jesus,

Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus

www.rhboydpublishing.com

R. H. BOYD, D.D., LL.D.

Founder (1896–1922)

H. A. BOYD, D.D.

(1922–1959)

T. B. BOYD, JR., D.D.

(1959–1979)

T. B. Boyd III, D.D.

President/CEO

David Groves, D.Min., Ph.D.

Director of Publications

LaDonna Boyd, MBA

Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey Wilson, B.S.

Director of Marketing

Samuel Hyde

Director of Operations

EDITORIAL STAFF:

Tia Ferrell, B.A.

(Coordinator)

Christopher R. Cotten, M.A., M.Div.

Brandon Alexander Franks, M.T.S.

Jane Ann Kenney, M.Div.

Holly Spangle, B.A.

Karissa Taylor, B.A.

Vanessa Lewis, B.A.

Lauren Oldham, B.A.

Freida Crawley, B.S.

Carla Davis, B.A.

Shanaya Whitaker, B.A.

Lesson material is based on the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used by permission.

NRSV Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s quarterly. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, all lessons include the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities.

KNOW YOUR WRITER

Vanessa Williams Snyder, an award-winning educator and author, spent approximately fifteen years in journalism before launching a second career. Since leaving Gannett News Service, where she was an editor and writer in the Features Department, she has blossomed as a teacher while still finding time to write.

In addition to writing about health, marriage, music, and other topics for GNS, Vanessa has written numerous freelance articles for several magazines, including Emerge, BET Weekend, Gospel Today, and Excellence. She also wrote Sunday school youth curriculum for many years for religious publishing companies. A native of Washington, Vanessa is a National Board-Certified teacher, with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in education from Walden University. She currently teaches language arts at the internationally-acclaimed Duke Ellington School of the Arts, in Washington, D.C.

A Message from the President/CEO . . .

Greetings and welcome to another quarter of insightful study. We look forward to joining you for a series of studies in God’s powerful and transforming Word. For over 119 years, we have been motivated by the vision of our founder, Dr. R. H. Boyd, to provide you with the highest quality and most doctrinally-sound literature for the African-American church. This quarter is certainly no exception.

In this quarter, we turn our attention to a variety of Scriptures that are very relevant for our own day, dealing with the nature of faith and the certainty of judgment for sin and wickedness. In April, we will look at Jesus Proclaims Faith. These lessons, drawn from the Gospel of Luke, look at several examples of healing in this Gospel. In these lessons, we will see how such healings are a sign of the coming of the Kingdom. We will also note His special concern for the poor and dispossessed in the world.

In May, we will look at Living into Our Faith. These lessons, also drawn from the Gospel of Luke, call us to a faith that is growing, grateful, humble, and joyous. Luke’s Gospel is full of such practical wisdom that helps us to live out the values of the Kingdom of God in our everyday lives.

Finally, in June, we will turn to How It All Began. These lessons, drawn from the book of Genesis, examine the story of creation and the power and glory of God the Creator. The final lesson, drawn from the Psalms, shows us how to praise and worship God for His almighty acts.

Praise and thanks be to God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—for the blessings these lessons contain. May He bless you in your studies this quarter.

In His Service,

Dr. T. B. Boyd III

President/CEO

QUARTERLY OVERVIEW

This quarter has three units centering on the theme of growing in and living out our faith as Christians.

Unit 1—April

Jesus Proclaims Faith

Unit I has four lessons based in the Gospel of Luke. In the first lesson we learn that strong faith can produce a miracle. The second lesson shows us that through our faith we can be forgiven through Jesus. Lesson three teaches us that God has power even over the evil in the world. The fourth lesson teaches us that God will always welcome and forgive us when we have strayed.

Unit 2—May

Living into Our Faith

Unit II, a five lesson unit, continues in the Gospel of Luke to teach us ways to show our faith. The first lesson teaches us the importance of repenting. The second lesson shows the importance of giving thanks to God for the wonderful miracles and blessings He gives us. The third lesson teaches us to be humble in all aspects of our lives. The fourth lesson shows us that all believers should be like children in our willingness to accept and give love. Lesson five shows us how dramatically our faith can change our lives for the better.

Unit 3—June

How It All Began

Unit III has four lessons based in Genesis and a Psalm that provides Christians with further reason to have faith and proclaim the glory of God. The first lesson shows us that God created everything intentionally. The second lesson emphasizes God’s almighty power. The third lesson focuses on the blessing that man has to be created in God’s image. The fourth lesson uses a Psalm to show us how to praise God for all He has done for us.

CONTENTS

APRIL

Jesus Proclaims Faith

MAY

Living into Our Faith

JUNE

How It All Began

SEEKING GOD’S GUIDANCE

SUGGESTED OPENING EXERCISES

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3. Singing (Songs to Be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading: Luke 7:44–48 (KJV)

Director: And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

School: Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

Director: My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.

School: Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

All: And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

Recitation in Concert:

Romans 1:16–17 (KJV)

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

CLOSING WORK

1. Singing

2. Sentences: Romans 3:10–18 (KJV)

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the