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Free Family Devotion Resource

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

Since the Coronavirus is keeping families at home, I’m offering free family devotions for children’s pastors to distribute to parents of their students. These devotions are from Building Foundations Curriculum and are copyrighted. They are only meant as a free resource during this time. Do not sell or publish this resource.

I will be distributing one week of devotions every Friday. The first series of devotions comes from The Journey: The Road (A series on the Romans Road).

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The Road Lesson 2: The Wide Road and the Narrow Road Family Devotion Handout

Memory Verse:  Romans 6:23   For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Summary: In our society today, there are few consequences for sin. Politicians can break the law and still hold office. Sports figures are idolized no matter how they live their personal lives. Actors and actresses can live an ungodly life style and be praised for it. But with God, sin leads to eternal death. God doesn’t wink at sin, but He does provide a way of escape and eternal life through Jesus Christ. Sadly, most people will choose death.

This sheet is provided to help families with devotions to go with the lessons your children learned in children’s church this week. Included is a daily Bible reading to use for discussions.

Monday: Read Matthew 7:13-14. The wide path leads to death. The narrow path leads to life. Choose life.

Tuesday: Read 1 Samuel 13:1-15. King Saul was a bad king because he thought more of what the people wanted than what God wanted.

Wednesday: Read 1 Samuel 15:10-26. The consequences of King Saul constantly disobeying God was that he lost his kingdom.

Thursday: Read Acts 13:21-22. God gave the kingdom to David because he was a man after God’s own heart.

Friday: Read Psalm 51. One reason God choose David is because he repented of his sins.

Saturday: Read Deuteronomy 30:19. We each have a choice between life and death. God urges us to choose life.

Family Activity: Set up narrow spaces in your house or backyard to crawl through. Then go to an open area outside and have the children run. Ask your children if it was harder to crawl through those spaces than to run in the open area. Talk about how it is easier to go on a wide path, but God wants us to go on the narrow path.

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Free Resources for Family Devotions

Posted on March 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

Since the Coronavirus is keeping families at home, I’m offering free family devotions for children’s pastors to distribute to parents of their students. These devotions are from Building Foundations Curriculum and are copyrighted. They are only meant as a free resource during this time. Do not sell or publish this resource.

I will be distributing one week of devotions every Friday. The first series of devotions comes from The Journey: The Road (A series on the Romans Road).

© mtzionridgepress, 2019

 

The Road Lesson 1 – Out of Eden Family Devotions Handout

Memory Verse: Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Summary: Have you ever heard that all people are good inside? The theory is since everyone starts out good, all we have to do is train children and treat them right, and they’ll do good.

That’s not what the Bible says. According to the Bible, everyone is born into sin. We have all sinned. You don’t have to teach a child to lie, or steal, or disobey. It comes naturally. We can’t be good enough to go to Heaven. We have accept Jesus and His forgiveness to take care of our sin problem.

This sheet is provided to help families with devotions to go with the lessons your children learned in children’s church this week. Included is a daily Bible reading to use for discussions.

Monday: Read Genesis 2. When God created Adam and Eve, He called them very good. They lived in Eden and had fellowship with God. God only had one command.

Tuesday: Read Genesis 3. Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and sin came into the world.

Wednesday: Read Romans 3:10-20. Our hearts are bent toward sinning.

Thursday: Read Romans 3:21-26. God has made a way to redeem us from our sin.

Friday: Read I John 1:7-9. To take advantage of God’s forgiveness, we need to confess our sin to Him.

Saturday: Read Romans 6. Once Christ has forgiven us, we should consider ourselves dead to sin.

Family Activity: Road Trip

Go on a pretend road trip with your children. If they are younger, have them use their toy cars during this trip. Have them describe where they would go and what they would see along the way.

Make sure you point out the guardrails. Talk about how guardrails keep us safe from dangers. Talk about your family rules and how they are guardrails to protect your children from danger.

Ask the children what guardrails they can have in their lives to keep them safe from the temptation to sin. Avoid giving them a list of rules. Instead, encourage them to decide what changes they need to make.

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Building Foundations Curriculum 50% Off Black Friday – Cyber Monday

Posted on November 28, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The Real History of the Pilgrims

Posted on November 23, 2019 | Leave a comment

 Thanksgiving is coming soon, and most children’s pastors have special Thanksgiving services planned. One thing I have always done on Thanksgiving is to teach the children about America’s spiritual heritage ingrained in the Pilgrims and Puritans. These are some of the facts that children are not taught in school.

Most children are taught that pilgrims came to America to flee religious persecution. That’s not exactly true. Pilgrims and Puritans were persecuted for believing that Christians could have a personal relationship with Jesus separate from the Church of England. But they traveled to Holland to flee the persecution, not America.

So why did they travel to America? There were many reasons, but the main reason is they felt compelled by God to come to America and establish a colony of people that honored God. Many called this colony, New Jerusalem, believing that God had established this new land to spread the gospel to the world. William Bradford wrote in his journal that the motivation came from “a great hope for advancing the kingdom of Christ.”

Pilgrims and Puritans were not the same. Pilgrims were separatists who believed they should separate themselves for the Church of England and the world systems. Puritans believed in working within the system. When they came to America, Puritans wished to set up the government so that religious freedom of expression would be established. Pilgrims wanted freedom of religion so they were free to worship without fear of persecution. Both Pilgrims and Puritans wanted freedom of religion to protect the church from the government, not to protect the government from the church.

Many schools teach that Thanksgiving was a secular celebration. But letters written by the Pilgrims tell a different story. God was such a part of their everyday life that they included God in everything. One such letter states that Thanksgiving was a celebration called so that “God be praised” for what He had brought them through.

John Winthrop called New England a City on a Hill in one of his sermon. He, as well as many other Puritans and Pilgrims, believed they had made a covenant with God to be a new nation that was a model of Christianity to the world. William Bradford believed that America was called to spread the gospel to the world. Since the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America, the United States of America has sent missionaries to more nations and more remote places in the world than any other nation on Earth. Could it be they were right?

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Revival Fire for Kids Curriculum is Here!

Posted on April 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

Revival Fire for Kids is pleased to announce the publication of The Journey, the first quarter of Building Foundations, a Spirit-Filled children’s church curriculum that preaches the foundation of God’s Word for Pentecostal children’s ministries for ages six through twelve. It is Christ-centered with the purpose of empowering children with full-Gospel doctrinal truths. Another quarter will be released within a couple of months. After that, a new quarter will be released every 6 months.

So, here’s a little more about The Journey.

THE JOURNEY: Available in Print and PDF

13 Weeks Children’s Church

BUILDING FOUNDATIONS Spirit-Filled Kid’s Church Curriculum

A Revival Fire for Kids Resource

The Journey is 13 complete children’s church lessons that teach children about their journey in the Christian life. It includes three parts.

Part 1 – THE ROAD (5 lessons on the Romans Road of salvation)

Part 2 – THE BIBLE: YOUR GPS FOR LIFE (4 Lessons on how God’s Word should guide your life)

Part 3 – CITY ON A HILL (4 lessons based on these scripture texts from the Sermon on the Mount about building a city on a hill – the kingdom of God in your life)

Digital Files. including short video clips, digital pictures, Family Devotion Take Home handouts, and other resources for use with this curriculum, are included upon purchase and registration of this curriculum.

Revival Fire for Kids equips children’s pastors and churches to lead children into revival and a radical relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you don’t want the entire The Journey curriculum, but you are interested in one part, each part is available separately in PDF only. Digital Files for that part are also available for free upon purchase and registration.

THE ROAD: 5 Weeks Children’s Church

Building Foundations Spirit-Filled Kid’s Church Curriculum

A Revival Fire for Kids Resource

THE ROAD is a 5 week curriculum about the Romans Road for ages 5-12. It shows children the path to salvation using Scripture from the book of Romans. The goal is to bring students into the saving grace of Jesus Christ and to teach them how to share the Gospel with their friends. THE ROAD is part one of THE JOURNEY Children’s Church Curriculum.

THE BIBLE: YOUR GPS FOR LIFE: 4 Weeks Children’s Church

Building Foundations Spirit-Filled Kid’s Church Curriculum

A Revival Fire for Kids Resource

THE BIBLE: YOUR GPS FOR LIFE is a 4 week curriculum for ages 5-12. It teaches students how to allow God’s Word to guide their lives, how God’s Word points to Jesus, the God’s Word keeps us from sin, and how we should do what God’s Word says. THE BIBLE: YOUR GPS FOR LIFE is part two of THE JOURNEY Children’s Church Curriculum.

CITY ON A HILL: 4 Weeks Children’s Church

Building Foundations Spirit-Filled Kid’s Church Curriculum

A Revival Fire for Kids Resource

CITY ON A HILL is a 4 week curriculum for ages 5-12. It isbased on these scripture texts from the Sermon on the Mount about building a city on a hill – the kingdom of God in your life. Students will learn how to let their light shine before men in a way that glorifies God.

You can purchase these products at Mt Zion Ridge Press, the publisher of Revival Fire for Kids resources, or on most online stores.

If you would like a sample of this curriculum, please email revivalfire4kids@att.net.

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