The Parable of the Lost Sheep, Coin and Son

Jesus spent some time with some shady people: tax collectors and sinners. This frustrated the religious, “super-duper Christian” types. So Jesus told a series of three stories: Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and Lost Son.

Now, when the Scripture writers repeat themselves, it is saying something like: PAY ATTENTION HERE! Only in a few instances does the biblical authors, or Jesus himself, do a series of THREE. It’s like Jesus is saying:

“Okay, here’s a story…

“Now just in case you missed my point, here’s another story…

“Now because I know you are still not getting what I am saying, here is a third story right between the eyes!”

Jesus is strongly emphasizing that the reason he came is to seek and save the lost, not the righteous.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 13

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The Parable of the Sower [y3_w12]

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 12

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Jesus Raises Lazarus Back to Life [y3_w11]

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 11

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Jesus Walks on Water [y3_w10]

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 10

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Jesus Feeds 5,000 People [y3_w09]

This past Sunday in Main Street, the students interacted with the story of Jesus Feeding the 5,000 + People.

Jesus feeding the 5,000 is a well-known story. It's difficult to mess up, and, at the same time, introduce anything really new.

With this in mind I used this opportunity to give the Main Street students some perspective on where we were in the New Testament; particularly the books we are pulling the stories of Jesus from: the Gospels. I had them all grab Bibles (either their own, or the ones we have available in the room) and turn to the location of the story, as well as the beginning of the New Testament. I talked about how the life of Jesus is recorded from 4 different angles and perspectives: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Then we read the story of Jesus' feeding the multitude miracle, walked through the text expositionally, then watched the Story Keeper version of the story. It was really worthwhile!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 9

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Jesus Heals #2 [y3_w08]

Jesus heals Jairus' dead daughter and along the way a bleeding woman. He also healed 10 lepers and one leper.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 8

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Jesus Delivers the Gadarene Maniac [y3_w07]

This past Sunday we did the story of Jesus Delivering the Gadarene Maniac in Main Street.

After reviewing the stories we've learned thus far, we showed 2 videos to the students:

The first video was from the series entitled: The Story Keepers. One of the "story keepers" shared the story of the demon-possesed man in the area of Garesa and how Jesus delivered the man and the people in the area were afraid of Jesus and asked him to leave.

The second video was from Kids Camp 2008. During that week, the speaker had asked me if I would "live act" this story before he gave his message. It has become an iconic storytelling session! Dave Dixon (the Hayward Primary School's P.E. teacher - Mr. Dixon) played the part of the demon-possessed crazy man, and he did a great job!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Main Street | Year 3 | Week 7

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