The Rizers!

by Jared Kennedy November 28, 2011

In the past, we’ve told you a lot about the Sovereign Grace Kids and Seeds Family Worship albums that we use during our SojournKids worship times. Now, meet the Rizers! These are great Scripture memory CDs-similar to Seeds but with more a pop/punk rock sounds. The tunes are brought to you by the Resurgence and [...]

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The Gospel Story Bible

by Jared Kennedy November 28, 2011

The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments by Marty Machowski (New Growth Press, 2011) My friend, Marty Machowski, has just released his second resource from New Growth Press, and it is available for 65% off  ($9.99) through this Wednesday. The 156 stories in this new storybook bible correspond with Gospel [...]

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Advent Resources from SojournKids!

by Jared Kennedy November 23, 2011

Advent is the season before Christmas when we celebrate Jesus’ coming as a light into our dark world. Here is a great theological explanation of Advent from Sojourn member, Dr. Timothy Paul Jones. SojournKids has put together a number of resources for celebrating the Advent season.  You can link to the Bible lesson,  music liturgy for advent, music liturgy [...]

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Noah and the Ark Coloring Pages

by Mandy Groce November 22, 2011

These sequenced Bible coloring pages will help kids learn the story of Noah and the Ark. We’ll be using this at SojournKids in our Preschool classes on December 18th. The main page has four panels that picture the major events from Genesis 6 – 8. story page | pdf | jpeg second page| pdf | jpeg third page| pdf | jpeg Directions: The children should color the [...]

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Creation Days Worship Liturgy

by Tyler Ratliff November 15, 2011

Leader 1: Today, we’re going to talk about God our Maker. God made everything. He made you and me, and everything else in the universe. God made us and takes care of us. That’s a great reason to sing praise to him. Let’s stand up and sing to our Almighty Creator. 1. “Almighty Creator” by Mark Altrogge. © 2004 [...]

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Policies, Predators, and Penn State Football

by Jared Kennedy November 10, 2011

I’m a huge college football fan, and I went to bed on Saturday night thinking that I’d watched the biggest college football event of the season–the “Game of the Century” between #1 LSU and #2 Alabama. I didn’t know it then, but that was not even the biggest college football event of the week. Since [...]

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7 Financial Principles for Kids, #7: The Bible encourages us to avoid DEBT.

by Jared Kennedy November 2, 2011

The Bible encourages us to avoid DEBT, because Christ has paid our debts by His love (Rom 13:8). “When you are in debt to someone, you change your relationship with them.  You no longer work for your own money, but you work for them.”  The only debt we should have as Christians is the continuing [...]

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7 Financial Principles for Kids, #6: How we SPEND our money shows what we treasure in our hearts.

by Jared Kennedy November 1, 2011

#6 How we SPEND money shows what we treasure in our hearts.  We should not stockpile treasures on earth where material things decay.  Instead, we should invest in eternal treasures (Matthew 6:19-21; Luke 12:20-21).  We are to spend money wisely and be content with what we have (Phil 4:11-12; Matt 6:25-34).  The way that we [...]

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7 Financial Principles for Kids, #5: We PREPARE for the future by planning and saving.

by Jared Kennedy October 31, 2011

We PREPARE for the future by planning and saving.   The Bible teaches us to plan and save for the future, because Jesus has prepared a future for us (Prov 21:20; Luke 14:28-33; John 14:1). Read John 14:1-6.  Talk to your child about heaven.  Talk to them about how Jesus is preparing a place for us [...]

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7 Financial Principles for Kids, #4: We GIVE freely because we’ve freely received from Jesus!

by Jared Kennedy October 30, 2011

#4 We freely GIVE because we have freely received from Jesus (Prov 11:24; Matt 10:8).  The Bible tells us to give money cheerfully to help our church and other people in need (2 Cor 9:7).  It is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35).  The Bible teaches the principal of giving a minimum [...]

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