Maplewood Cottage Home-Lessons
• Sep. 13, 2008 - A New Devotional
Sword Fighting by Karyn Henely was recommended to me by another homeschool mom when I relayed where my 7 and 8 yo. boys are at spiritually.
I wanted something for my boys in particular. As they are getting older and can certainly grasp deeper concepts.
The girls still get the basic ideas and hear the repeating of the bible verses.
Finding a good secondhand copy made the book even more affordable.
It's companion is the God's Story Bible book that takes scripture and expresses it as one would in a sunday school class after reading the Bible passage itself. So that is what I am doing reading the actual scripture from our KJV and then reading the Bible story from -God's Story and then the discussion questions in the Sword Fighting book.
Last night we discussed the concepts of being a helper and a servant. Galatians 5:13 Serve one another in love. The first reference was from Gen. about Adam and the animals as his helpers and then the creation of Eve as helper to Adam.
The temptation is to not help others. How do we fight it?
Soon our cork boards will be up and we'll display the verses each week on a sword shaped paper.
The questions are simple: What can animals do to help us? Why did God make a woman to be Adam's helper? If serving is helping wherever help is needed... I added -How does a wife serve her husband?
How can you tell if someone is a serving helping person? How can you tell if they are not?
I was blessed by the answers I got. Women help their husband's by helping him bring new people into the world... They nurse the babies. They take care of others together. They make meals and make sure the daddies can get off to work with clean clothes. They teach the children together. All good answers!
I also wanted to share this site I'll put into the side bar too. I printed off tons of great pages of activities and Bible verses from it.
I got some other lovely books written by Karyn Henely a children's hymnal, some picture books , and a craft / storytime planner for preschoolers.
So I am pretty prepared with our spiritual lessons in place. |
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