Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 6 - Helmet of Salvation

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

Romans 10:9-10

New King James Version (NKJV)

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Doe Doe and the Candle of Life (An Object Lesson about Eternal Life) :

Doe Doe shows the Lakewood kids a good way to understand how the helmet of salvation works.

Bible Lesson : 

What does it help us fight?

Death

How do you equip it? 

Believing In Christ

Nicodemus (Being Born Again)

Salvation is an act of death and resurrection that is simple yet complex enough that even a religious leader like Nicodemus could not grasp.  We must remember to go to Christ, even if it is in the night, and learn what we can.  It is never a bad thing to come to Him with questions, because He will provide us with an answer.  It does not mean that we will understand right away, but hopefully will get it just like Nicodemus did, later. We must accept Jesus in order to be saved and right here in this story we can understand that when we do we should be a different person afterwards... it may not happen right at that moment, but the more and more we go to Christ the better we will understand.  Death will never hold us because Christ's blood will be upon us giving us eternal life. 

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Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 5 - Shield of Faith

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

Psalm 46:10

New King James Version (NKJV)

Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!

Doe Doe and the Candle of Belief (An Object Lesson about Belief and Faith) :

Doe Doe shows how faith helps us through doubt!

Bible Lesson : 

What does it help us fight?

Doubt

How do you equip it? 

Trust

Woman with issue of Blood

Belief is an easy thing to gain and as well an easy thing to lose with just a bit of doubt.  Our faith is the thing that protects us from our doubts. Of course doubts can chip away faith, but the more strength we put into faith the more our belief can grow and end up making miracles.  This woman in this story had TONS of faith. Believing by just touching only the hem of his robe she would be healed of something that had bothered her for many years.  We can have this kind of faith and with it we can be protected from doubt and trust fully in the Lord.

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Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 2 - Shoes of Peace

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

Doe Doe and The Peaceful Ball (An Object Lesson on Spiritual Peace) :

Doe Doe shows that even in a storm we can have peace!

Bible Lesson : 

What does it help us fight?

Confusion / Chaos

How do you equip it? 

Focus on Christ

Peter walking on water

Romans 10:15, Romans 3:17, 1 John 2:6

Chaos is a beast that can control us and make us quit whatever we are working to do.  When Jesus walked on water towards the boat that the disciples were on, only one of them asked Jesus to command him to come out.  With that command from Christ Peter took steps upon water.  This is certainly wonderful, but the storm that was around them took the attention of Peter and with that lost focus he began to sink, but Jesus was still there and was able to pull him out.  This is the same for us.. we CAN have peace in the storm - we CAN do the miraculous.. we just need to be certain that our eyes are on Christ and not lost in the storm we may have around us. 

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Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 3 - Breastplate of Righteousness

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

Philippians 4:8

New International Version (NIV)

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

 Doe Doe and The Snowy Surprise (An Object Lesson about 'Thoughts') :

Doe Doe showed the Lakewood Kids how we can be protected from our thoughts and what we learn.

Bible Lesson : 

What does it help us fight?

Temptation

How do you equip it? 

Take Captive Every thought and give it to Jesus

Jeremiah 36 & 2 Cor. 10:5

At any moment in time, any thought or choice can enter your mind - the question of what you are going to do with that can determine much.  You can take that thought captive and weigh it against the Word, or you can be like the king in Jeremiah 36 that just burned away what God was speaking right after it was spoken.  If we truly want to be able to fight temptation we always need to take a bit of time to capture and give our thoughts to Jesus.  Only He can 'clean up' the bad ones and make the good ones even better than they already are. 

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Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 2 - Belt of Truth

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

John 14:6

New International Version (NIV)

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 Behind the Scenes with Doe Doe, Dee Dee, and The Lie Detector (An Object Lesson about Lies) :

Doe Doe shows the Lakewood kids what can happen when you choose to tell ONE lie.

Bible Lesson : 

What does it help us fight?

Lies 

How do you equip it? 

KNOW THE TRUTH

Abraham lies about Sarah (Genesis 20)

With only one lie a person creates a web of problems.  Abraham and Sarah found this out when he was afraid that men would kill him to steal Sarah for themselves. The good thing is that God spoke to Abimelek and told him what he was doing was wrong.  The made Abimelek find out the truth and got everything cleared up and set up protection for Sarah.  We should remember that telling the truth can only do what is right.  If we lie we are only spreading fiction.  Fiction is not helpful in important situations.  If you know the truth then you know how to properly act in certain situations. 

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Sally Storie's Quest For The Armor of God : Lesson 1 - Spiritual Warfare

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

Isaiah 54:17

New International Version (NIV)

no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.

Doe Doe and his Boxey Friend (An Object Lesson about Spiritual Warfare) :

Doe Doe shows the Lakewood kids how we cannot see the battle inside another, be we can see their actions.

Bible Lesson : 

Moses lifting staff for them to win

Ephesians 6:12 Our Battle

A definition of spiritual warfare can only get you so far.  When Moses and Joshua fought the Amalekites we can really see how a battle that is more spiritual can go.  If we find ourselves in some kind of battle, whether it be our time or some choice we must make we should remember the example of Moses and the nation of Israel.  The important part of the battle had nothing to do with strength or the ability of the men to fight, but instead only in the ability of Moses to hold up the standard and do as God called him to.  One good thing to remember is that while no one can exactly do our job for us, they can create and be a support for us in what God has called us to.  The more that we are focused on holding GOD up in our minds, then the more the spiritual battle around us will be won! 

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Avengers Assemble! Agent Coulson's Lesson on Christ!

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

John 3:16

New Living Translation (NLT)

 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Doe Doe and The Separation of Sin (An Object Lesson about Unity and Salvation) :

Doe Doe shows the Lakewood kids what the power of sacrifice creates for those around it.

Bible Lesson : 

The Diverse 12 Diciples and Christ's Sacrifice that brought them together

In the Avengers movie Phil Coulson is the catalyst that brought "earths mightiest heroes" together. You might have expected it to instead be one of the more powerful players, but instead it was just a man.  The Israelites expected the Christ to be so much more 'amazing' then what they initially saw in Jesus.  He should have been a powerful warrior that became their king, instead he was a carpenter that talked a bunch, and then died.  One real power that Jesus had was His ability to bring the diverse together.  His disciples were not all fisherman, nor were they all tax collectors, or either just good men.  They came from all walks of life, and somehow Jesus brought them all together for ONE cause.  Where His death may have scattered them, His resurrection empowered them and guided them to the Holy Spirit which immediately spoke to all... regardless of language barriers.

 

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ALOHA!!! Back 2 School Bash 2012!

 We are excited to share updates on our first ever Back 2 School Bash!

We had such a great turn out and we are so pleased with how things went.

Our church congregation, along with others came together and donated over 35 backpacks to give away to kids at our service!!!  Thank you to those of you who donated and who prayed for our ministry for your amazing support. We are eternally grateful!

We had a blast playing games outside, followed by a great dinner.  As soon as everyone finished eating we kicked out our awesome service showcasing our talented ministry team, and bringing God all of the glory.

We sang songs and met lots of fun characters throughout the night, and followed up with an amazingly encouraging word from Pastor Derek.

We counted 27 children who responded to the call that night to believe in Jesus and ask Him to walk with them and live in their hearts.

Praise GOD!

Overall, we call this a HUGE success and we give God ALL of the glory. We couldn't be who we are without Him, and without our support from our church.  We thrive because we have many intercessors standing behind us.

Want to check out some of the things we did during our Back to School Bash?

Check out this video.  It's a little lengthy but I promise you won't regret watching it!

Avengers Assemble! The Incredible Hulk's Lesson on Christ!

Sally Storie Interview :

Memory Verse :

 2 Timothy 3:16

New International Version (NIV)

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

Pastor Derek and The Musical Balloon (An Object Lesson about Anger) :

Pastor Derek talks about Anger and how we can learn from the way Jesus used it.

Bible Lesson : 

Money Tables .. 

Mark 11:15–19, Matthew 21:12–17, Luke 19:45–48, John 2:13–16 (Specifically Matthew)

Interesting Tidbits

http://bible.us/Jas1.20.NLT Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. 

The Incredible Hulk is arguably one of the strongest superheros out there, but his problem is with his control of it.  Having the right reign on our emotions is a good thing, Christ showed an interesting example of this when He overturned the moneychangers tables in the temple.  So often Jesus showed love and compassion to all He came into contact, it is almost jeering to then read about Him throwing what we may consider to be a temper tantrum, but if we really look at His purpose we understand that Christ had control.  He was forcefully removing the things that did not belong in the temple to create room for the things that did, those blind and lame - in need of healing.  We can do the same, instead of bottling the anger and letting it cause us to explode, we can find how to route it and let God mold it into something that blesses another instead! 

 

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FREE Curriculum - Nursery Rhyme and Silly Songs (Lessons 1-10)

This is a fun way to connect some very well known Nursery Rhymes and Silly Songs to the Bible.  We have over 30 lessons that we did in this way.  The first 10 are ready for others to begin to download and use as they wish!

Be sure to read and understand our Intro sheet for using these Lessons.

Full Intro To Using Lakewood Kids Lesson Plans:
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Lessons 1-10:

Lesson 1 - Humpty Dumpty (Pride)
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Lesson 2 - Little Bo-Peep (Jesus Cares About You)
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Lesson 3 - Little Tea Pot (Being Who You Are)
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Lesson 4 - Do Your Ears Hang Low (Making Fun of Others)
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Lesson 5 - Jack Be Nimble (Trust In God)
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Lesson 6 - John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmit (God Knows Your Name)
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Lesson 7 - The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Perserverance Through Faith)
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Lesson 8 - Little Miss Muffet (Fear)
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Lesson 9 - Five Little Monkeys (Obedience)
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Lesson 10 - On Top of Spaghetti (Obsession)
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 Lessons 11-21:

Coming Soon!!