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March 31, 2006
Scattered Reminders of Easter
How many items from the Biblical Easter account can you find around the room?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.25 (4
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Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday games, Scavenger Hunt, Easter egg ideas
March 30, 2006
Twas the Night Before Easter
Easter take on the famous "Night Before Christmas" poem
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 1.67 (3
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Humor
Easter Exchange
Can you grab a chair while youth switch places based on Easter symbols?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.25 (8
votes)
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Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games
March 29, 2006
Take Off the Grave Clothes
Christ Shares his Resurrection with us.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:32 PM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.50 (8
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Keywords: Easter, Resurrection, New Life, new start, another chance
Easter Egg Teams
Use Easter Eggs to break your group into teams.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Icebreakers
Average: 2.40 (10
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Icebreakers, crowbreakers, Easter Games, Holiday Games, Plastic Easter Eggs, Easter egg ideas
Bamboo
Do not become weary in doing good. [Flash Presentation]
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Inspiration
Average: 3.11 (19
votes)
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Keywords: Perseverance, Good works, loving others
March 28, 2006
What if
What if GOD met our needs the way we give Him our lives?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 07:30 PM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.75 (8
votes)
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Keywords: blessings, God's care, needs, prayer, commitment
Easter Forward and Backwards
Can you make it around the circle to win?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Icebreakers
Average: 2.91 (11
votes)
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Keywords: Christmas Game, Holiday Game
March 27, 2006
The Weaver
Our life is a weaving of different colored threads.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.12 (8
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Keywords: pain, sorrow, hurt, plan, purpose
Easter Egg Nose Roll
Roll an easter egg across the finish line using only your nose.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.60 (10
votes)
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Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games, Messy Games, Easter egg ideas
March 26, 2006
Easter Charades
Play a game of charades using key Easter events.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 03:45 PM | Link
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Category: Drama Ideas
Average: 2.65 (17
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Resurrection
Easter Pretzels
Introduce children and youth to the Easter traditions and symbolism associated with Pretzels.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 3.14 (14
votes)
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Keywords: symbolism of pretzels, Easter traditions, Easter Children's Sermon, Easter Object Lesson
March 25, 2006
Filled yet?
Often we discover too late that instead of having full lives, our lives are full of holes.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 PM | Link
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Category: Humor
Average: 2.86 (7
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Keywords: trials, circumstances, adversity, struggles, testing, water, humor
Easter Twister
Twister is a very simple game that can become very complicated as the players can easily get tied up in knots. Play a classic game of twister replacing the colored dots with symbols commonly associated with Easter.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.44 (9
votes)
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Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games
March 24, 2006
The Weather Vane
God's love is always there.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.22 (9
votes)
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Keywords: God's love
Traditional Passover Seder (Simple Version)
Have a traditional Passover meal to bring added meaning to the easter events.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.55 (11
votes)
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Keywords: Passover, Seder, Easter, Meal
March 23, 2006
Imaginary Chains
Trusting God, we take an obedient stand for our faith and refuse to live according to our learned limitations.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:14 AM | Link
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Category: Inspiration
Average: 2.60 (5
votes)
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Keywords: faith, belief, limitations
Watermelon Seeds
Can you explain the mystery of a watermellon seed?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.62 (8
votes)
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Keywords: evangelism, witnessing, mystery of God
What's in the Easter Basket?
The person who correctly guesses the most objects inside the Easter eggs is the winner.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.38 (8
votes)
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Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games
March 22, 2006
Watch His Ways
God molds us according to his ways.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.54 (13
votes)
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Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing
Easter Card Puzzler
Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Easter crowdbreaker.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Icebreakers
Average: 3.20 (5
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Icebreaker, Crowdbreaker
March 21, 2006
Zeal
Afraid of the Zeal of the Lord?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.80 (5
votes)
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Keywords: zeal, fear, sacrifice, dedication, devotion, commitment
Jelly Bean Teams
Use Jelly Beans to break your group into teams.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Icebreakers
Average: 1.67 (6
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Icebreakers, crowbreakers, Easter Games, Holiday Games, Jelly Beans, Jelly Bean Games
March 20, 2006
Weakness
Weakness has a way of making us rely on God far more than our strengths do.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.33 (6
votes)
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Keywords: strength, weakness
Easter Back to Back
This game humorously demonstrates the fact that for many people, the meaning of Easter has become distorted over time.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.67 (3
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Meaning, Holiday Games, Easter Games
March 19, 2006
Jelly Bean Salvation
Use 5 colors of Easter Jelly beans to tell the Gospel.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Object Lessons
Average: 2.68 (19
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Keywords: Easter, Salvation, Gospel, Evangelism, Witnessing, Sacrifice, Christ's work, Gospel According to Jelly Beans
March 18, 2006
Waiting On God
What does it mean to wait on God?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.00 (5
votes)
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Keywords: prayer, waiting, paitence
The Water Jar
Jesus loves to take a life that is drifting and give it direction.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.67 (6
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Keywords: water jar, woman at the well, direction, drift
March 17, 2006
Easter Bingo
Can you cover all the squares in your Easter Bingo Board?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.00 (5
votes)
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Keywords: Holiday Games, Easter, Resurrection, Passover, Good Friday, Crucifixion
Prayer of St. Patrick
Prayer for each day
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.00 (6
votes)
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Keywords: Prayer, Dependence upon God, God's Provision
March 16, 2006
Which Tooth?
We're anxious to have something happen!
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 PM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.75 (4
votes)
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Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing
A Beautiful Tune
Watch carefully what you are filled with -- God or the things of this world.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | Link
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Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 2.56 (27
votes)
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Keywords: Joy, Music, Priorities, Filling, Sharing God's love with others, materialism
Church Bells
Leave your troubles in God's hands.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.67 (6
votes)
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Keywords: circumstances, faith, fear, doubt, anxiety, worry, confidence, Easter, trust
March 15, 2006
The Empty Egg
The story of the empty egg.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 06:00 PM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.40 (5
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, empty tomb, resurrection, life after death, Easter egg ideas
Butterfly, Botanist, or Bee?
Are you obedient to the knowledge God reveals in your life? Do you live out the word?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 05:49 PM | Link
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Category: Inspiration
Average: 2.50 (6
votes)
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Keywords: faith, works, obedience
Walk the Rope Relay
What scriptural standards do you find most difficult to walk?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.80 (5
votes)
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Keywords: Spiritual Walk, Wages of sin, death
March 14, 2006
Life Restorer
While Easter is not about the Easter bunny, it is about restoring the dead. Jesus was resurrected and because of his work on the cross we also will be resurrected.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:50 PM | Link
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Category: Humor
Average: 4.00 (6
votes)
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Keywords: Easter, Humor, Joke, Funny, resurrection
A Quiet Place
A quiet place to prepare for the day.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link
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Category: Devotional
Average: 2.78 (9
votes)
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Keywords: Prayer, Quiet Time, Devotional
Joseph's Tomb
Joseph probably didn't realize that his act to bury Christ in his own tomb fulfilled prophecy.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.60 (5
votes)
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Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, questions, burial, death, prophecy, resurrection, Easter
March 13, 2006
Life on a Tightrope
Do you put your faith into action?
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:53 PM | Link
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Category: Inspiration
Average: 2.00 (5
votes)
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Keywords: faith, believe, belief, trust, take action
Avoiding Prayer
Expressive Prayer
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:02 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.50 (6
votes)
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Keywords: Prayer, Devotion, Intercession, Quiet Time
Egg Tragedy
Sometimes when life seems to have shattered we can make an omelette.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.33 (3
votes)
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Keywords: Tragedy, adversity, trials, tests, circumstances, difficulties, tribulations, troubles, Easter egg ideas
March 12, 2006
Defining Joy
The definition of joy in Scripture is vastly different from the world's definition.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link
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Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.75 (4
votes)
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Keywords: Joy, Happiness, fruits of the spirit
March 11, 2006
Scavenger Hunt Riddles II
Add riddles to increase the difficulty of your next scavenger hunt.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:05 PM | Link
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Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.78 (9
votes)
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Keywords: Scavenger Hunt, Photo Hunt, Video Hunt, riddles, puzzles
Treasures
Our treasures are where our heart is.
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Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:45 PM | Link
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Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 3.00 (7
votes)
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Keywords: Treasure, Materialism, worth, value, Importance, Priorities