Probably one of the best object lessons to help you tell the Easter Resurrection story.

What common English word is nine letters long, and each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word? From nine letters all the way down to a single letter?  It's the word 'startling'. 

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You can tell the Easter Resurrection Bbile Story in your church, school assembly or children's ministry in such an easy and attractive way using only the letters in the word 'startling'.

Easter Sunday Morning Object lesson:

Just imagine, it's Easter Sunday morning. You ask nine children to come on stage with you. You give each of the children a large cardboard letter or large cards with letters on. The children can hold the letters above their heads or in front of their faces. Together they spell the word 'Startling'.

Each time you tell a part of the story, you take a letter away. You go from the word STARTLING to STARTING to STARING to STRING to STING to SING to SIN to IN and you end with the letter I.

As you do this, you tell the following Easter Resurrection story about Mary going to the grave, finding it empty, thinking that the body has been stolen and meeting Jesus, her risen Lord.

The story with this object lesson:

STARTLING:

Mary makes a startling discovery: the grave is empty.

STARTING:

She is starting to wonder: "What has happened here?

STARING:

And now Mary is staring at the stone that has been rolled away.

STRING:

All the clothers are neatly folded up. Not a loose string in sight.

STING:

Mary is feeling the sting: "Has someone stolen the body?"

SING:

But then she meets the risen Lord and she wants to sing, because she discovers 'Jesus is alive'.

SIN:

Now she knows what happened on the cross: Jesus has broken the power of death and sin. 

IN:

And thorugh His resurrection everyone who believes in Him can be part of God's family.

I:

What do I do? Everybody needs to know! So Mary goes on her way to tell the disciples. 

(This is just a short summary. You can make it as elaborate as you want.)

What do you need:

- Download: 'The Resurrection story using nine letters'
- Download: 'Nine Letters for the word STARTLING'

Your sins are really forgiven

Below you will find a demonstration video, in which Matthijs demonstrates an experiment that is both very simple and spectacular. Using iodine, starch and sodium thiosulphate, he shows how you can easily illustrate the story of the conversion of Zacchaeus yourself.

This idea is part of a complete Sunday school lesson on the Bible story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10. 

This idea will help the children in your Sunday school lesson, youth ministry, Bible lesson, VBS, kidmin, children’s church or children’s ministry to reflect on this powerful Bible passage.

What do you need:

What do you do:

Use this fun object lesson to teach on the Bible verse in Isaiah 43:25

In Isaiah 43:25 we read "But I wipe away your sins because of who I am. And so, I will forget the wrongs you have done."

Do you know UV Reactive Putty? You can use this as an object lesson. You can write with the included UV pen in the putty and you''ll see it change in colour. This means that you can write with the UV pen in the putty. You can write for example the things that you have done wrong in the putty and it will disappear after a minute.

This creates a very easy link to the Bible verse of Isaiah 43.25. Our sins will disappear very quickly from the putty, just as God has promised that He will wipe away our sins!

You can buy this UV Reactive putty here through Amazon.com and here through Amazon.co.uk

Have fun with it!

An easy to do gospel illussion on Adam, sin and forgiveness from Rick Lenski 

This Gospel illusion is from Rick Lenski and can be used in your children's ministry, Sunday school or kidmin. You don't have to be a Christian magician to do this trick. 

Verse:

Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

Goal:

Adam and Eve sinned and tried to hide from God, but God knows all and sees all.

What do you need:

- Wonder Box Magic Trick 

Wonder Box:  This box will rattle at will.

An easy to do gospel illussion from Rick Lenski 

This Gospel illusion is from Rick Lenski and can be used in your children's ministry, Sunday school or kidmin. You don't have to be a Christian magician to do this trick. 

Verse:

Romans 6:23:  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. This verse says all sin is deadly but God’s forgiveness erases all sin whether we feel they are big or small.

Goal:

Sin, all sin is not acceptable.

What do you need:

- Baffling Boomerang Magic Trick

Do you know how this magic trick works?

You can get to know this magic trick through this video below here:

An easy to do gospel illussion from Richard Lenski

You can use this gospel illusion from Richard Lenski in your children's ministry, Sunday school or kidmin. You don't have to be a Christian magician to do this trick. 

Richard Lenski offers you two routines with this magic trick - see below.

Verse:  

Rev 3:15-16 “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”

Patter:

Jesus was talking to about someone’s condition of their heart concerning the Lord.

What do you need:

McComb ½ & ½ silk, any device to put the ½ dyed silk into to make it disappear. Set up per instructions.

- Half Dyed Silks Magic Trick
- Crystal Silk Cylinder Magic Trick

Do you know how this magic trick works?

You can get to know this magic trick through these video's below here:

An easy to do gospel illussion from Richard Lenski

You can use this gospel illusion from Richard Lenski in your children's ministry, Sunday school or kidmin. You don't have to be a Christian magician to do this trick.

Do you know how to do the Torn and Restored Paper trick?

You can learn how to do this gospel illusion / magic trick through this video below here:

With the help of a secular YouTube film and a creative activity you can explore Jesus’ sacrificial love.

This YouTube film shows the story of a paper creature that is attacked by a pair of scissors. Rock sees what is happening and he attacks Scissors out of compassion for Paper. Rock wins from Scissors but gets wounded. Rock carries Paper to a safe place, but because in the game Paper always beats Rock, he starts to crumble even as he is carrying her to safety. He therefore demonstrates sacrificial love.

It’s easy to find a link between this story and the incident when Jesus touches the leper and makes him promise not to tell anyone. The leper does tell everyone that Jesus touched and healed him. It has been centuries since anyone healed a leper – back in the time of the prophet Elisha, when general Naaman was healed. If Jesus can heal even a leper, surely he can help anyone! As Jesus had expected, large crowds came to see him – so large that he was no longer able to go into the villages and towns. His compassion for the man with leprosy, and the fact that the man was too excited to keep it to himself meant that Jesus was forced to retreat to more remote places. Jesus experienced a degree of suffering because of his compassion for this man.

Of course you can also use this video to teach on Jesus' death on the cross and his resurrection!

Themes:

Jesus healing the leper, sacrificial love, Jesus' death and resurrection

Important question:

It’s important to watch the video yourself first and to decide if you want to show it to the children? Does it fit within your context and the age of the children?

What do you do:

Step 1: Have the children play the game ‘Rock, paper, scissors’. You could play it for a few minutes and have them change partners half way through.

If you don’t know the game, you can watch this link.

Step 2: Watch the video together, and possible one more time after completing step 3.

Step 3: Discuss the video using six worksheets which you can download here: Broken---Rock-Paper-Sciccors.pdf

The worksheets consist of the following images: 

- rock
- scissors
- paper
- the illness leprosy
- Jesus
- the ill man

1. Print the six images out and show them to the children
2. Ask the children to make three pairs of the images – which ones belong together?
3. Who represents Jesus in the video? (the rock) – why do you agree or not agree?
4. Who represents the ill man? (the paper) – why do you agree or not agree?
5. Who represents the illness? (the scissors) – why do you agree or not agree?

Living life to the full, because Jesus restores the balance in your life

In John chapter 4 Jesus meets the Samaritan woman near the well. This woman was like a empty Coke can - totally empty, lying on its side, blown over by life. A woman who knows what it is to be judged by all the full Coke cans in her village. The men and women who live such nobles lives, who pour shame on this broken and emptied woman.

But then something amazing happens. Jesus offers her life to the full. He offers her living water. And the woman drinks it in. A miracle happens. The woman is filled with water and suddenly there is a restored balance in her life.

Using two oranges and a jug of water to do this amazing cool science experiment

The apostle Paul writes the following in Hebrews 12:1:

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith."

Paul encourages us in this Bible passage to throw off everything that hinders us and do away with the the sin that so easily entangles us.
I find this a beautiful, but also difficult passage to teach to children, teenagers or adults.
Is there an easy way that will illustrate what Paul is saying here?

I believe there is...

What do you need:

- oranges
- permanent markers
- large fish tank or buckets
- a waterproof sign with the words ‘FINISH’

Preparation:

Attach or place the waterproof sign ‘FINISH’ on the bottom of the large fish tank or the bucket. Fill the fish tank or the bucket with water.

What do you do:

Do:
Place an orange into the water of the tank or the bucket. Demonstrate how the orange floats. Take the orange out again and peel it. Put it back into the water. The peeled orange will sink and float to the word ‘FINISH’ on the bottom of the tank or the bucket.

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