Children’s Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

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: Jan 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781681672465

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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

Samuel Hyde

Director of Operations

EDITORIAL STAFF:

Tia Ferrell, B.A.

(Coordinator)

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

Jane Ann Kenney, M.Div.

Lee Perkins, M.Div.

Kaitlyn Phillips, 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.

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

Children’s Teacher (USPS 709-650) (ISSN 0746-7613) copyright © 2017 by R.H. Boyd Company, 6717 Centennial Blvd., Nashville, Tennessee 37209-1017. Children’s Teacher is published quarterly by R.H. Boyd Company. Periodicals postage paid at Nashville, Tennessee.

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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

Dr. Christina Zimmerman is a speaker and writer who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. With a passion for Christian education and discipleship, Dr. Zimmerman has been called to assist church leaders in educational ministry. She received a bachelor of arts from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, a Masters of Education from Tennessee State University, and a doctorate in educational ministry from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. She has served as a minister of education, a minister of leadership development, a women’s ministry leader, and a Sunday school teacher, and has passionately counseled those who seek to walk with God. Dr. Zimmerman is happily married to Rev. Harry Zimmerman Jr., and between them have five children and eleven grandchildren.

A Message from the President/CEO . . .

Greetings,

We at R.H. Boyd would like to welcome you to another quarter of uplifting and insightful study of God’s Word. This quarter we will celebrate one of the most significant Christian holidays—Easter. Through our central focus on God’s great love for us through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, we aim to continue to provide doctrinally sound worship and study materials of excellent quality. For 121 years we have sought to fulfill the vision of our founder, Dr. R.H. Boyd, to provide you with the best literature for the African-American Church.

In this quarter, we continue to focus on God’s love for humanity. In April, the five lesson unit called God Is a Loving Parent reveals God as Protector, Preserver, Healer, Comforter, and Savior of the people through the books of Psalms, John, and Romans.

In May, we have a unit titled God Loves All Creation, which has four lessons from the book of Jonah, highlighting God’s unconditional love for humans and the natural world, as well as God’s continuing care and concern for individual and group relationships and developments.

In June, we have a unit titled Called to Be Strong, which introduces the era of the judges and begins a discussion of God’s calling for His believers.

May this quarter of study bring you closer to our Holy Father, and bring great glory and honor to His name.

In His Service,

Dr. T. B. Boyd III

President/CEO

QUARTERLY OVERVIEW

God’s love for us is evident in Scripture from the creation of the first humans through God’s constant interactions with humanity. A survey of select Old and New Testament Scriptures reveals dynamic and encouraging aspects of God’s constant love for humankind. God calls ordinary people from diverse backgrounds to make a difference.

Unit 1—April

God Is a Loving Parent

Unit I has five lessons revealing God’s various roles. The first lesson reveals total reliance on God. The second lesson reveals God’s love in sending His only Son for human salvation. The third lesson recounts the resurrection event in which God’s love is displayed as victory over death. The fourth lesson elaborates on the force and power of God’s love in Christ. Lesson five focuses on Jesus’ words describing Himself in the role of the Good Shepherd.

Unit 2—May

God Loves All Creation

Unit II has four lessons from the book of Jonah that highlight God’s unconditional love for humans and the natural world. The first lesson concentrates on God’s care for the natural world and humanity. The second lesson focuses on God’s providential care in preserving Jonah in the belly of the fish. The third lesson focuses on God’s love and mercy. The fourth lesson depicts and elaborates on God’s pervasive love for all creation.

Unit 3—June

Called to Be Strong

Unit III introduces the era of the judges. The book of Judges continues the history of Israel after Joshua’s death. God raised up a series of national leaders called judges. Empowered by God, judges delivered the people from their enemies.

CONTENTS

APRIL

God Is a Loving Parent

MAY

God Loves All Creation

JUNE

Called to Be Strong

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: Psalm 1:1–6 (KJV)

Director: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

School: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Director: And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

School: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Director: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

All: For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Recitation in Concert:

Joshua 1:6–8 (KJV)

6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.

8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

CLOSING WORK

1. Singing

2. Sentences: James 4:6–10 (KJV)

6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

3. Dismissal with Prayer.