Promise Kingdom Blog

Welcome back to Promise Kingdom! This Sunday we kick off another year of ministry to your children. How grateful we are for this amazing privilige! Here are a few things to note before Sunday:

This week in Promise Kingdom we will be learning about the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Lesson #44). You can read the account from Acts 2:1-12.

This week in Promise Kingdom the kids will be studying Christ's ascension from Acts 1:1-14 (Lesson #43 in Old Story New). Can you believe we're over half done with our NT curriculum and yet just now getting done with the gospels!

This week's lesson (#42) looks at how the gospel fulfills the promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12. I used to think the Great Commission was only useful for making Christians feel guilty for not evangelizing more. It saddens me to think that many still view it this way. And worse is the fact that Christian leaders still teach it that way.

Let me begin with the heads-up for Sunday in case you don't get around to reading to the end. This week, Pastor Jim will be preaching from Colossians 3:5-7.

Our lesson this week (Lesson #40) revolves around the account of Thomas, doubting the reality of Jesus' resurrection until he could see and touch Him. In His kindness, Jesus granted Thomas' wish, letting him touch his nail-scarred hands and wounded side.

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Yes, we celebrated Easter a few weeks ago, but we're just getting to Christ's resurrection in Promise Kingdom this week (Lesson #39). It's good to remember Christ's rising from the grave every day, isn't it? After all, it's an essential element in the gospel.

I know we are preparing to celebrate Palm Sunday tomorrow, but our lesson in Promise Kingdom (Lesson #35) is going to have us look beyond the jubilant welcome into Jerusalem to the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and subsequent trial.

This week in Promise Kingdom we will be studying the Last Supper from Luke 22:1-34 (Lesson #33). The Last Supper that Jesus shared with His disciples was a celebration of Passover, when God spared His people through the sacrifice of a lamb.

This week the kids will be learning from Luke 20:45-21:9 (Lesson #31). Contained in these passages is the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, the widow giving all that she had to live on, and the foreshadowing of the beautiful temple being replaced by the presence of God in Christ.