Children’s Teacher: 1st Qtr 2018

By R.H. Boyd

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: Oct 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781681673400

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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)

Dr. T. B. Boyd III

President/CEO

LaDonna Boyd, MBA

Chief Operating Officer

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

Director of Publications

Steven Puckett, AAS

Director of Operations

Keaton Bell, M.Ed.

Director of Finance

EDITORIAL STAFF:

Tia Ferrell, M.S.

(Coordinator)

Olivia M. Cloud, M.R.E.

(Associate Editor)

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

Kaitlyn Depoister, B.A.

Landon Dickerson, B.A.

Jane Ann Kenney, M.Div.

Vanessa Lewis, B.A.

Lauren Oldham, B.A.

Freida Crawley, B.S.

Carla Davis, B.A.

Yoni Limor, 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 © 2018 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. 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. Dr. Zimmerman has served as a minister of education, a minister of leadership development, a women’s ministry leader, and a Sunday school teacher. 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 and Happy New Year,

For 122 years, the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation has produced Christian education material that offers insightful exposition of Scripture and meaningful life application. As we welcome this quarter, our commitment is the same. We hope that as you study the following lessons, you will be informed and inspired in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.

Over the next three months, we will study the subject of faith in God. We will begin the quarter by exploring the faith of Daniel and his friends in action. During the second unit in February, we will survey a few texts from the New Testament to understand that faith is not just about beliefs, but deeds also. We will conclude this quarter with lessons from Genesis and 2 Chronicles. These lessons are about two men, Abraham and Solomon, who displayed their faith by following God’s guidance. This quarter will attempt to bolster our faith in God.

Our founder, Rev. Dr. R.H. Boyd, once said, Whatever is taught in the Sunday schools of this generation will be the doctrine of the church in the next generation. I pray that we, through our material, can inspire the next generation to live by faith for the betterment of themselves, our homes, churches, and communities. If we can accomplish that, then our work is not in vain.

Thank you for choosing our material. Your dedicated support enables us to fulfill our mission to produce quality Christian literature and resources that uplift the Church and the African-American community.

In His Service,

Dr. T. B. Boyd III

President/CEO

QUARTERLY OVERVIEW

The study this quarter will explore the double nature of faith as belief and action. In the book of Daniel, we will understand faith in action as sincere, obedient, bold, and strong. The lessons from several epistles will show how our actions, both as individuals and as communities, demonstrate our faith in Christ. The quarter will end with guidance for following God by faith.

Unit 1—January Living My Faith in God

Unit I, Living My Faith in God, has four lessons that explore faith in action from the book of Daniel. These lessons provide models for ways to actively join in behaviors that support sincerity, obedience, boldness, and strength of faith.

Unit 2—February Showing Faith by My Works

Unit II, Showing Faith by My Works, has four lessons that examine passages from Acts, James, and 1 Timothy, and provide specific examples of faith as both belief and action. James teaches that faith without works is dead. The lesson from 1 Timothy offers instructions about leading others in a life of faith.

Unit 3—March Following God’s Ways

Unit III, Following God’s Ways, provides four lessons drawn from Genesis and 2 Chronicles, and shows how both Abraham and Solomon prove their faith in God by following His guidance.

CONTENTS

JANUARY

Living My Faith in God

FEBRUARY

Showing Faith by My Works

MARCH

Following God’s Ways

SEEKING GOD’S GUIDANCE

SUGGESTED OPENING EXERCISES

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

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

3. Singing (Song to Be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading:

Psalm 40:13–17 (KJV)

Director: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

School: Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Director: Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

School: Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

All: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Recitation in Concert:

Mark 11:22–25 (KJV)

22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

CLOSING WORK

1. Singing

2. Sentences:

Revelation 21:23–27 (KJV)

23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

25 And the gates