Children's Teacher: April- June 2023

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s quarterly for children 11 and under. 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. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Mar 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886350685

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Second Quarter 2023 Volume 40 • No. 2

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CHILDREN’S TEACHER

SECOND QUARTER 2023

2023 VOLUME 40

Teaching Companion to Growing with Jesus,

Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s Sunday school quarterly designed to be used as a companion teaching tool to Growing with Jesus, Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus. 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.

MEET YOUR WRITER

NORIA GRANT is a writer and graphic designer for her home church of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, having provided both the current logo and a website for their use. She graduated from the University of Memphis at the Magna Cum Laude level with a degree in English and a concentration in Creative Writing. She is also a ceramicist and the owner of N-Genius Designs graphics. She accepted God into her life at an early age and strived to use her talents for his glory, participating in a number of choirs and youth groups which allowed her to tour the world, both in the United States and abroad. She’s been to Germany, the Czech Republic and Ireland as a part of a youth choir. Though, more recently, she is focusing primarily on her writing and art.

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.

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2

SECOND QUARTER 2023 CHILDREN’S TEACHER

UNIT 1 — APRIL

JESUS IS ALIVE

UNIT 2 — MAY

THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH

UNIT 3 — JUNE

GOD’S MESSENGERS DESCRIBE GOD’S POWER

This Quarter, Your Children Will Study...

The spring quarter explores the broad sweep of biblical teaching about God’s reign. Beginning with Old Testament declarations of God’s righteous reign, the lessons proceed to Jesus’ teachings about the Kingdom of God. The second unit considers additional New Testament texts that elaborate on the theme of Jesus as king and what it means for believers to participate as joint heirs with Christ in God’s eternal reign. The third quarter explores the broad sweep of biblical teaching about the nature of God’s reign, beginning with Old Testament declarations of God’s righteous power. Both Old and New Testaments depict God as king over all the earth (see Psalm 47:2). Among Israel’s prophets, only Daniel references God’s kingdom.

UNIT 1 — JESUS IS ALIVE

Unit I, Jesus Is Alive, has five lessons from the Gospels of Luke and John centering on Jesus’ appearances to his followers. Lesson 1 explores Luke’s account of the women’s surprise encounter at the empty tomb and their attempts to convey the message to the disciples. Lesson 2 is Luke’s account of the Easter Sunday lesson where the author tells of how the disciples came to believe in the resurrection. Lesson 3 concentrates on Jesus’ appearance to the disciples at the Sea of Galilee as told in John 21. Lesson 4 continues John’s account and records Jesus’ reinstatement of Peter. Lesson 5 is Jesus’ promise of the Holy Spirit.

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UNIT 2—THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH

Unit II, The Beginning of the Church, has four lessons from the early chapters of the Book of Acts. Lesson 6 highlights Jesus’ instructions that the disciples wait for the empowering of the Holy Spirit before beginning their ministry. Peter and John demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit when they heal a lame man in Lesson 7. Lesson 8 spotlights the Holy Spirit, who transports Philip to the chariot of the Ethiopian eunuch where Philip explains the Scriptures. This quarter concludes with Ananias, who was directed by the Lord Himself to minister to His enemy, the newly-converted Saul, in Lesson 9.

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UNIT 3—GOD’S MESSENGERS DESCRIBE GOD’S POWER

Unit III, God’s Messengers Describe God’s Power, is a four-week study of the reign of God as depicted in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zephaniah, and Zechariah. Taken as a whole, what do these prophetic texts teach us about the kind of rule God exerts over the earth’s inhabitants? The first two sessions advance the theme of God’s powerful and peaceful reign. Session three introduces the concept of God’s servant-king, the promised Messiah. Sessions four explore the concept of God’s appointed King.

Unit Points of Emphasis: __________________________________________________________

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:

2 Timothy 4:1–8 (KJV)

Director: I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

School: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

Director: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

School: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Director: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

School: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

Director: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

All: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Recitation in Concert:

Psalm 1:1–3

1. 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.

2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. 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.

Closing Work

1. Singing

2. Opening Sentences: Philippians 2:5–11 (KJV)

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

3. Dismissal with Prayer

Palm Sunday

Lesson 1 for Week of April 2, 2023

HE IS ALIVE!

Background Passage: Luke 24:1–12

Lesson Passage: Luke 24:1–12

UNIFYING TOPIC

Jesus Has Risen!

LESSON SECTIONS

KEY VERSE

He is not here, but has risen. (Luke 24:5, NRSV)

BIBLICAL EMPHASES

1. To recite the events of the resurrection account as told in Luke.

2. To identify with the amazement the women experience in meeting Jesus after the resurrection.

3. To choose a person with whom they can share the resurrection story.

UNIFYING PRINCIPLE

When we encounter amazing circumstances in life, it’s impossible to keep them to ourselves. How do we convey our excitement about amazing experiences? The women visiting the tomb faced the astonishing reality of Jesus’ resurrection and shared their excitement with the disciples.

LESSON EMPHASES

• The response of those who witness Jesus’ power is often fear and