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June 30, 2006

Pearls

A pearl is a victory over a problem. (more)

icon-devotional.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 09:28 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Devotional
Average: 2.00 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Difficulties, trials, struggles, test, victory

June 26, 2006

How to have Revival

How do you get revival? (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (1)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.50 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: revival

June 25, 2006

The Lord's Baseball Game

Some spiritual lessons from a baseball parable (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:03 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.62 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: baseball, love, faith, wisdom, grace

Profiles

In this icebreaker / crowdbreaker, youth will try to guess the identity of other youth by looking at their profiles. (more)

icon-icebreakers.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Icebreakers
Average: 2.33 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Image of Christ, Image of the Father, icebreaker, crowdbreaker, getting to know you, Christian Living, evangelism

June 24, 2006

The Vessel

Are you a vessel God can use? (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.00 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: vessel, service, used by God, giving, serving

June 23, 2006

Family Treasure

What is your family treasure. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.00 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Family, Treasure, relationships

Did Jesus Use a Modem at the Sermon on the Mount?

Have the wonders of this modern age made you question what is true? (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 1.86 (7 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christ, technology, Internet, computers

June 22, 2006

Not Yet

God molds us according to his plan for us. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.00 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: vessel, service, molded by God, shaped by God, trials, circumstances

June 21, 2006

Kids Sunday School Website

Resource for Children's Sunday School (more)

icon-resource_reviews.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 10:45 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Resource Reviews
Average: 2.17 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: children, Sunday School, kids

The Weight of A Prayer

Only God knows the weight of a prayer. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.00 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: prayer, needs, provision

June 20, 2006

Grasping the Universe

Einstein's thoughts on order in the universe. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.00 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: creation, Creator, order, design

June 19, 2006

Shared Vision

Use this exercize to illustrate the importance of a shared vision. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | | Comments (1)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.00 (3 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Vision, Goals, Objectives

Student Excuses

Actual excuses given by students to schools (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.67 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: humor, children, jokes, funny but true

June 18, 2006

God is my father

Children will explore Fatherly qualities in God. The goal is to help children learn that God is a father who will never leave and who will always treat them with kindness and love. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.29 (7 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father, Father's Day, Dad, game ideas

Old Testament Men Trivia

Trivia questions of men in the Bible. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.38 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: men of the Bible, Trivia, Father's Day

Family Dress-up

Students will play a game to remind them that family is important. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.67 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father, Father's Day, Game ideas, dad, relay race

June 17, 2006

When God Created Fathers

Poem about God's creation of Fathers by Erma Bombeck (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.40 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father, Father's Day, dad

Father's Day Discussion

possible discussion starters for father's day (more)

icon-discussion_questions.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:31 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Discussion Questions
Average: 2.50 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father's Day, Father, dad

Find Father's Tie

Students must find the tie that has been hidden in the room. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.60 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father's Day, father, dad, game ideas

June 16, 2006

Searching for Dad

Students must describe their Father to others to retrieve a photo of their father. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.25 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father, Father's Day, dad

Father's Business Trip

In this game, children must remember the business trips of father's going through the alphabet. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 1.75 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: father's day, father, dad, game ideas

Father May I?

In this variation of "Mother May I?" Children ask Father rather than mother for permission (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.40 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father, Father's day, dad

June 15, 2006

Father's Are Wonderful People

A poem for fathers on Father's day. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.50 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: father's day, dad, parents

Outhouse Confession

Sometimes our actions unexpectantly affect others. (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:25 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.67 (3 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: humor, funny, joke, actions, consequences, father son, Father's Day

The Ballad of the Oyster

What an oyster can do with a small grain of sand? (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.40 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: oyster, trials, difficulties

June 14, 2006

Emotional Charades

This like normal charades, but the items to be pantomimed are different emotions. (more)

icon-drama_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Drama Ideas
Average: 3.17 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: emotions, feelings, icebreaker, crowdbreaker, showing love, positive and negative emotions

Fallen Man

Surrender is needed for true repentence. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.60 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: repentance, surrender

June 13, 2006

Father's Day Ideas

Listing of Some of the father's day related Creative Ideas on the website. (more)

icon-announcements.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | | Comments (1)
Category: Announcements
Average: 3.00 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Father's Day

Spider Soccer

In this variation of soccer or international football, youth are bound together with 3 other persons to play the game. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.75 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: teamwork, sports variations, youth games

Every Earthly Hope

Christ reaches out in the most difficult times to us. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 1.75 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: hope, light, Christ's help, help in times of need

June 12, 2006

Sardines

In this classic variation of hide-and-seek, youth search for the hidden persons and then join them in their hiding place. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.17 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Game ideas, youth games, hide-and-seek

Value in Disaster

Can you find the value in disaster? (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.50 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, fire

June 11, 2006

Well Established

Are you making progress in your Christian Life? (more)

icon-devotional.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Devotional
Average: 2.40 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: growth, judgement, journey, farmer, wagon, testimony, complacency, grave

The Line Separating Good and Evil

Good and evil lie within each of us. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.50 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: good and evil, heart

June 10, 2006

Red and Black

In this classic simulation game, youth learn that not everything has to be an "I win" "you lose" scenario. It can be win-win. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.71 (7 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Simulation game, greed, Selfishness

Bird and Shadow

Choices determine consequences. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.33 (3 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: choice, decision making, consequences, actions

June 09, 2006

Aardvark Relay

In this relay game, each person on a team must use a straw in thier mouth and suction to carry an object across the room and back. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | | Comments (1)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.82 (17 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Relay Games, possessions, materialism, letting go

Wounded

We are all wounded. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.17 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: wounded, transparency, healing, love

June 08, 2006

God's Work

God is a God of Variety (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:29 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 1.33 (3 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: variety, harmony

Murder

In this crowdbreaker, youth will try to guess the identity of a murderer, before they are murdered. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.00 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Murderer, crowdbreaker, group games, keen observation, party games

June 07, 2006

A Child's Life

What are mark are you leaving? (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:20 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.00 (4 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: child, nurture, influence, parenting

I Scream Sunday

This messy game has no lesson or meaning and is simply an opportunity for youth to have fun while getting a little messy with their dessert (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.40 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: messy games, partner games, couple games

June 06, 2006

Romans and Christians

In this classic simulation game, youth learn what it means to stand up for one's faith and to totally trust God even in situations where they may face incredible adversity. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:30 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.38 (8 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Taking a stand, Belief, Government Authorities, Faithfulness, Persecution

Poem for Moms and Dads

Humorus look at raising kids (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.17 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Mother's Day, Father's Day, humor, funny jokes, raising kids

Children Are Like Kites

Raising children is like flying a kite. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:16 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.60 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: children, parents, raising kids, family, growth, freedom

June 05, 2006

Falling Leaf

In this group builder, youth will learn to trust one another. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 05:18 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.60 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Trust Game, Group Builder, Team building, unity, trust, support, encouragement

At the Mercy of Others?

When it seems others have control over our lives, can we trust God? (more)

icon-resource_reviews.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Resource Reviews
Average: 3.00 (5 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Trust, sovereignty, providence, God is in control

June 04, 2006

The Needs of Youth

Simple list of the basic needs of youth. (more)

icon-youth_ministry.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:43 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Youth Ministry
Average: 2.11 (9 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Youth development, identity, youth issues

The True Front

Every decision is a battle. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.67 (6 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Choice, decision, battles

June 03, 2006

10 speed

Does life seem to be a little fast for you? (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (1)
Category: Humor
Average: 3