Children’s Teacher: 3rd Quarter 2016

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation

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: Apr 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781681671369

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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.

Lee Perkins, 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.

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the 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

Clover Murray lives outside of Miami, Florida. She is the mother of four adult children and a grandmother of eight. Clover is a retired elementary school teacher, and she now enjoys teaching children’s Sunday school classes and directing her church’s Vacation Bible School. Clover’s passion is reading and writing Christian literature that helps others to have a closer relationship with God. When she is not reading or writing, Clover enjoys spending time at the beach with her children and grandchildren.

A Message from the President/CEO . . .

Welcome to this third quarter of study in 2016. We here at R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation have worked diligently to ensure that each quarter of study offers a fresh opportunity to discover through meaningful, in-depth study what God’s Word can teach His people today. For 120 years, we have been dedicated to serving the Church throughout the world by providing Bible studies for God’s faithful people. We trust that this quarter honors our tradition of excellence.

We will begin in July with a unit titled Praise God for Creation. These lessons from the books of Psalms and Romans call for praise to the Lord who created the world. Though fallen, all creation was created good, and God still cares for everything that He made. Such a Creator is worthy of all praises!

In August, the unit New Creations in Christ continues a study of the book of Romans. These lessons in Romans focus on what it means to live as the people of God in the face of the many struggles and temptations that might discourage us. We have hope that God is working to restore us and make us into the image of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.

In September, the unit God Rules the World studies texts from the book of Isaiah. Though he prophesied doom for Israel, ultimately Isaiah offered great hope of restoration for God’s people. These prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who invites all nations to come to God and worship in His peaceful Kingdom.

As always, we look forward to sharing this quarter of study with you. The reason for our continued work here at R.H. Boyd is to help strengthen God’s Church through these Bible studies. This commitment has been renewed every year for more than a century, and we look forward to many more years serving the Lord’s people.

In His Service,

Dr. T. B. Boyd III

President/CEO

QUARTERLY OVERVIEW

This quarter has three units. The first highlights the beauty of God’s creation while the second moves on to the hope we have for living in God’s Kingdom. The final unit explores prophecies from the book of Isaiah.

Unit 1—July

Praise God for Creation

Unit I, Praise God for Creation, is a five-lesson study out of the books of Psalms and Romans. The first lesson celebrates God’s creativity in making the whole world, while the second and third lessons call for us to give thanks for all of His creative work. Lessons four and five remind us that we have hope because of Jesus and can find new life in Him.

Unit 2—August

New Creations in Christ

The study of Romans continues in Unit II, New Creations in Christ. The first lesson begins with assurances of believers’ safety in God’s love, and lesson two continues with what it means to live in light of God’s mercy. Lesson three reminds believers that all are welcome in God’s family, while lesson four concludes the study in Romans by calling Christians to fulfill the Law in love.

Unit 3—September

God Rules the World

The third and final unit, God Rules the World, begins with a lesson out of the book of Isaiah that explores the future peaceful Kingdom of God. These hopeful prophecies from Isaiah are further explored in the final three lessons about the feast of God, God’s power over all the world, and finally the everlasting covenant that would be made through Jesus.

CONTENTS

JULY

Praise God for Creation

AUGUST

New Creations in Christ

SEPTEMBER

God Rules the World

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: Romans 8:28–35 (KJV)

Director: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

School: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Director: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

School: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Director: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

School: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Director: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

All: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Recitation in Concert:

Romans 12:1–2 (KJV)

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

CLOSING WORK

1. Singing

2. Sentences: John 1:1–5 (KJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness;