The Ten Commandments (Exodus 19-20; 31)

Unit 5, Session 1

Dear families,

This week’s Scripture story takes place only three months after God delivered His people from Egyptian slavery. The Lord spoke to Moses concerning the way she was to lead Israel into their next season of life as God’s chosen and set-apart people. They were to worship God through holy lives that honored Him alone as God.

Why were the Ten Commandments necessary for God’s people? How do these commands show us our need for a Savior?

God reminded the Israelites of who He is and all He accomplished to free them from Egypt, drawing them away from slavery and into a place where they could freely worship Him as God. He instructed them to carefully listen to His commands, keep His covenant, and be His own special people. He decreed the Ten Commandments, explaining the lifestyle that would extend honor not only to Himself, but also to their neighbors. He explained how they were to revere Him as God and to love one another in all they said and did.

The external threat of slavery was not the only obstacle stopping the Israelites from freely worshiping God; they had to combat their internal inclinations to sin against Him and one another. God took great care to deliver His law to the Israelites in a way that evoked awe and reverence toward Himself. He presented these statutes to show His people how they were to be set apart or live differently from other people who didn’t follow Him. However, because of their sinful nature, the people could never achieve perfect obedience. So to fulfill His perfect law, God would send Jesus to do what sinners couldn’t—live in perfect obedience. Jesus offered Himself up for the forgiveness of sins and defeated the power of sin so we could be made right before the Father through faith in His Son.

The giving of the law was never the end goal; it was always God’s plan to redeem a people for Himself through the death and resurrection of His Son. Help the kids in your family see that because they cannot measure up to the law’s requirements, our hope rests in Christ alone. Lead them to see God’s greatness and what He has done to offer them salvation.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: Because of sin, we cannot obey God rules perfectly. God sent His Son, Jesus, to live a perfect, sinless life so we can be forgiven.
  • Younger Preschool: God gave His people rules so they would know how to live. No one follows the rules all the time. That’s why God sent Jesus. Jesus never did anything wrong, and He died and came back to life so we can be forgiven.
  • Older Preschool: God gave His people commandments so they would know how to live. Because of sin, no one is able to obey these commandments perfectly. God sent His Son, Jesus, to live a perfect, sinless life. Jesus died and rose again so that sinners can be forgiven.
  • Kids: God gave His people commandments so they would know how to honor Him and live rightly. Because of sin, no one is able to keep these commandments perfectly. God sent His Son, Jesus, to live a perfect, sinless life. Jesus died and rose again so that sinners can be forgiven.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Why do we need to be saved? We are sinful and need Jesus to rescue us from sin.
  • Older Preschool: Why do we need to be saved? We are sinful and need Jesus to rescue us from sin.
  • Kids: Why do we need to be saved? People are sinful and cannot save themselves.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: There is no one like the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:2
  • Younger Preschool: There is no one holy like the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:2
  • Older Preschool: There is no one holy like the Lord. There is no one besides you! 1 Samuel 2:2
  • Kids: There is no one holy like the LORD. There is no one besides you! And there is no rock like our God. 1 Samuel 2:2

** Next week: The Golden Calf (Exodus 32; 34)

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Moses Led the Israelites (Exodus 17-18) 

Unit 4, Session 5  

Dear families, 

Exodus 17 and 18 reveal God’s faithfulness to help Moses in the difficulties of leadership. From the Amalekite battle to his daily struggle to teach and judge God’s people, Moses’ human limitations were evident as he came to the end of himself and depended on God to supply him with the support needed to fulfill his role as leader of the Israelites. 

How was Moses ill-equipped to take on the strains of these circumstances? How do we see our own need for Jesus in today’s text? 

Though Moses led with humble obedience, he could not independently fulfill all the requirements of his role. As Joshua led Israel in war, Moses was responsible for interceding on behalf of the Israelites. When the Israelites were battling the Amalekites, God allowed Aaron and Hur to assist Moses as his arms grew heavy, and God declared that He would blot out the memory of this foe under heaven. When God’s words rang true, Moses declared God to 8888be his victory, the One in whom he placed his trust. 

Later, Moses recounted to his father-in-law God’s faithful deliverance in every hardship since their departure from Egypt and went on to explain his responsibilities as leader. Jethro believed Moses’ role was too big for one man and wisely instructed Moses to select other like-minded men to serve alongside him. He explained that the delegation of these roles would help not only Moses, but the rest of God’s people too. God, in His grace, provided the right men to assist Moses in these responsibilities. In both times of need, God graciously provided for Moses. 

Teach the kids in your family that God helps us in our times of need, just as He did for Moses. Even more, God provides our greatest need: a Ruler like Moses to perfectly and completely instruct and judge His people––a role that could only be fulfilled through His perfect Son, Jesus. Moses’ leadership was a shadow of Christ’s greatness to come. Pray for the kids in your family to see the salvation Christ offers them today, our greatest help for our greatest trouble. 

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities.  

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: Moses was not able to meet all the people’s needs. Jesus met our need to be rescued from sin by dying on the cross and coming back to life. 
  • Younger Preschool: Moses was a good leader, but only Jesus can hear and answer all our prayers. Jesus helped us in the best way. He saved us from our sins by dying on the cross and coming back to life. 
  • Older Preschool: Moses was a great leader, but he was not able to meet all the needs of the people. Jesus is able to hear and respond to all of our prayers. Jesus met our need to be rescued from sin by dying on the cross and coming back to life. 
  • Kids: Moses was a great leader, but he was just a man. He was not able to meet all the needs of all the people by himself. Jesus is fully man and fully God. He is able to hear and respond to all of our prayers, and His death and resurrection provides salvation to everyone who trusts in Him. 

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER 

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.  

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy. 
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy. 
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God. 

KEY PASSAGE 

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.  

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17 
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17 
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17 
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17 

** Next week: The Ten Commandments (Exodus 19-20; 31)

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God Provided for His People (Exodus 15-17)

Unit 4, Session 4

Dear families, 

God’s miraculous provision for His people revealed His steadfast compassion despite their continual grumbling. In today’s passage, we read of God granting the Israelites far more than they deserved, heaping upon them more than they needed as they journeyed with Him to the Promised Land. Today, those who are in Christ receive undeserved grace and provision through His sacrificial love lavished upon us like manna in the wilderness. 

What made the Israelites long for their old lives in Egypt? What does the Sabbath teach us about God’s provision? 

Though not far removed from the miraculous parting of the Red Sea, the Israelites grew desensitized to God’s extraordinary power at work in their lives. Not only had He delivered them from slavery, but He kept His presence close, guiding them day and night as they journeyed through the wilderness. Now, after weeks of wandering, their grumbling grew louder. They would have rather died in Egypt than learn to depend on and trust God in a desolate place. They took for granted their freedom to worship God in the wilderness; they longed for their predictable lives in Egypt—forgetting the toils of slavery. 

Despite what they deserved, God looked on them with compassion, causing bread to rain on them from heaven and for meat and water to become miraculously within reach. He called for His people to trust in His provision, only gathering what was necessary for the day. He desired them to thrive under obedience to Him. Just as God had fought their battle against Egypt, God called them to be still and rest in His provision. Rest requires the people of God to stop striving and simply trust and receive. God was helping His people learn this truth through the Sabbath. 

Sadly, the Israelites turned a blind eye to God’s faithfulness in fighting their battles and meeting their needs. We are also prone to overlook God’s faithful provision in our own lives and perhaps even downplay the miraculous gift of salvation in Christ. Lead the children in your home to see the gift of God’s undeserved grace and to hunger and thirst for His gift of salvation. 

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities.  

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God gave the Israelites the food and water they needed. We are all sinners, but God gave us Jesus so that we might be saved from our sin. 
  • Younger Preschool: God took care of His people in the wilderness. All people need God. God gave us what we need the most: His Son, Jesus. Jesus died and rose from the dead to rescue us from our sins. 
  • Older Preschool: The people were unhappy with Moses and God, but God still chose to give them the food and water they needed. We are all sinners, but Jesus still chose to die for us so that we might be saved from our sin. 
  • Kids: The people complained against Moses and against God, but God still chose to give them the food and water they needed. We are all sinners and are enemies of God, but Christ still chose to die for us so that we might be saved. 

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER 

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.  

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy. 
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy. 
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God. 

KEY PASSAGE 

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.  

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17 
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17 
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17 
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17 

** Next week: Moses Led the Israelites (Exodus 17-18) 

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Moses Parted the Red Sea (Exodus 13-15)

Unit 4, Session 3

Dear families,

The parting of the Red Sea is one of the most incredible accounts in Scripture. After God freed His people through the events of the Passover, He performed this amazing miracle to deliver them from danger and secure their hearts in worship to Him alone. In this passage, we see glimmers of an even greater miracle––the salvation of God’s people, once and for all time, through Christ’s miraculous sacrifice on our behalf.

Why did God lead His people into the hardships of the wilderness? What was God’s intention for rescuing His people from slavery?

While God led His people on a route that took longer and was different than expected, His divine purpose in doing so was for their good. But even more, He knew the waywardness of His people’s hearts and that the external threat of war would only intensify their inclination to doubt His provision. God led them to the perfect location to display His power and test their trust in Him.

In Exodus 7, God instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh, “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness.” The parting of the Red Sea was certainly enough to inspire worship as the people watched the Lord bring deliverance through the most surprising of means. Just as Moses had spoken, the threat of the Egyptians on that day would never worry them again. God revealed His awe-inspiring power through the parting of the Red Sea, though such a rescue seemed impossible. Like the Israelites, we can know that God will receive glory and that all who place their faith in Jesus will live in the hope of His salvation. Just as God’s people walked through the sea on dry ground, anyone who turns to Christ for salvation will pass through judgment and into eternal life.

Consider the internal and external factors that keep you from giving God the worship He deserves. Pray for the same understanding from the children in your family, that they would turn to Christ and receive His miraculous offer of salvation.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God made a way to save His people from Pharaoh. God made a way to save us from our sin by sending Jesus to die on the cross and rise again.
  • Younger Preschool: God made a way for His people to be saved. He parted the Red Sea so they could live. God made the way for us to be saved from our sin by sending Jesus. We can trust Him and be thankful.
  • Older Preschool: God made a way for the Israelites to be saved. He parted the Red Sea so they could live. We are all sinners who deserve to die for our sin, but God miraculously made the way for us to be saved by sending Jesus to die in our place for our sin and rise again.
  • Kids: The Israelites faced certain death, but God miraculously made a way for them to be saved by parting the Red Sea. We are all sinners and face certain death for our sin, but God miraculously made the way for us to be saved by sending Jesus to die in our place for sin and rise again.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy.
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy.
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17

** Next week: God Provided for His People (Exodus 15-17)

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Moses Confronted Pharoah (Exodus 5-12)

Unit 4, Session 2

Dear families,

The confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh revealed the stark contrast between the powerful compassion of God toward His people and the heart-hardened pride of the Egyptian ruler. While challenging Pharaoh seemed an impossible task, God used Moses to showcase His glory through Moses’ willingness to obey. Though Pharaoh’s pride led to the demise of his people, we see in this story a picture of God’s mercy to the Israelites. This serves as a foreshadow of the mercy Christ displayed on the cross by taking on Himself the punishment sinners deserved so that they might enjoy eternal life with Him.

Why was Pharaoh’s heart so hardened against God? How did Moses and the Israelites trust God despite their circumstances?

Pharaoh’s first response to Moses was to question God: “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?” (Exodus 5:2). Pharaoh did not recognize God’s power, nor did he wish to submit himself under any other authority. Pharaoh’s disobedience was already leading him on a path of destruction, so God saw fit to further harden the ruler’s heart as a means of displaying His own power over Pharaoh and the fake gods of Egypt.

Moses, despite communing with God so closely, still doubted His faithfulness amid the Israelites’ suffering. Moses even accused God of causing trouble and making a mistake by choosing him as leader. Yet, God declared that the Egyptians would see His power, and in the end, surrender to His will. God repeated His covenant promises and reminded His people that He would be faithful to deliver them from Egypt and bring them to the land of promise. Through the suffering of slavery and desolation of the plagues, God’s people waited. And upon hearing God’s Passover instructions, they did as He commanded.

Consider Moses’ difficulties in confronting Pharaoh, a man of great prestige. Then, reflect on the grace and mercy of God who reigns in sovereign power. Though it appeared impossible, God made good on His promises. Help the kids in your family see that Christ’s sacrifice was the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promise to redeem people from the bondage of sin. Just as the blood of the lamb saved the firstborn sons at Passover, Christ’s blood now and forever frees us from sin.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: Jesus died on the cross and rose again so we can be saved
    from sin.
  • Younger Preschool: God showed His power so His people could be free. Jesus came to earth to rescue people from the power of sin. Everyone who trusts in Jesus will be free from sin and live with God forever.
  • Older Preschool: Pharaoh did not want God’s people to be free. The people suffered, but God’s people were saved. Jesus came to set sinners free. He willingly suffered and died on the cross so we can be saved from sin.
  • Kids: Because of Pharaoh’s hard heart, Egypt suffered by God’s people were saved. Because of Jesus’ loving heart, He willingly suffered on the cross so we could be saved from sin. His blood saves us from our sin just as the Passover lamb’s blood saved the firstborn of the Israelites.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy.
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy.
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17

** Next week: Moses Parted the Red Sea (Exodus 13-15)

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God Called Moses (Exodus 1-4)

Unit 4, Session 1

Dear families,

Moses’ life was characterized by miraculous encounters with the God of Israel. The same God who called Moses into leadership promised to use His faithful servant to rescue the Israelites from Egyptian rule. As His people cried out, God heard and remembered His covenant with their forefathers.

How did God direct Moses into these divine purposes? How did Moses ‘calling foreshadow the One who would lead God’s people into even greater victory?

From Moses’ first mention in Scripture, we read how God’s purposes for Moses’ life would prevail despite people’s wicked schemes. Though Pharaoh called for the Israelite boys to be put to death, God saved Moses from such a fate. As Moses fled his familiar life in Egypt, God directed Moses’ path toward a magnificent encounter with the great I AM at the burning bush. God called the wandering Moses by name, leading him forward in obedience with the promise of His faithful presence.

While Moses would not flawlessly follow God nor perfectly trust in His promises, God promised to provide Moses with help and demonstrate His power. Moses was aware of his own shortcomings as a leader, yet God still used him mightily to rescue the Israelites.

Later in his life, Moses prophesied that a new leader would one day emerge from among the Israelites. We see this promise fulfilled in Jesus Christ who, like Moses, was born in a time of turmoil under a king who called for His death. Unlike Moses, however, Jesus lived a sinless life and saved God’s people from a different kind of bondage—the tyranny of sin and death. Moses led God’s people to offer sacrifices to the Lord. Jesus, however, became the perfect sacrifice for His people, conquering death and raising to new life all who would believe in Him.

As you teach the kids in your family to see God at work in the life of Moses, pray that they would lift their gaze to see Jesus’ work on their own behalf. Though Moses was a distinguished leader who sought to obey God, this story goes beyond a moral example and is about the One who is worthy of our obedience and trust. Pray for the children in your family to heed Christ’s call to salvation.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God sent Moses to rescue the Israelites from Egypt. God sent Jesus to rescue us from sin.
  • Younger Preschool: God’s people in Egypt needed to be rescued. God sent Moses to save them. We all need to be rescued from sin, so God sent Jesus to rescue us.
  • Older Preschool: God saw His people hurting as slaves in Egypt. God sent Moses to rescue them. We all suffer as slaves to sin, so God sent Jesus to rescue us by dying and rising again.
  • Kids: God saw His people suffering as slaves in Egypt and sent Moses to rescue them. We all suffer as slaves to sin, and God sent Jesus to rescue us by dying and rising again.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy.
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy.
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17

** Next week: Moses Confronted Pharaoh (Exodus 5-12)

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Volume 2: Law & Life

God called His people to trust and obey His words, which led to life. His power and love worked in tandem as He delivered the Israelites out of Egypt, instructed His people through the law, resided among them in the tabernacle, and shepherded them through the desert, despite their continual disobedience. 

Unit 4 God Delivers His People: May 18- June 15
Unit 5 God Instructs His People: June 22-July 13
Unit 6 God Guides His People: July 20-August 10

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The Suffering of Job (Job)

Dear families,

Job’s story is an impactful passage on human suffering and God’s sovereign goodness that transcends any circumstance. The book of Job shares of a God-fearing, virtuous man who continually turned from evil. Though he was not sinless, Job was counted righteous by his faith in God until the end. 

How does Job respond when unexpected suffering comes to him? How does Job’s story encourage us in our own suffering? 

In the beginning of Job, we see an interaction between Satan and God, in which the Creator allows Satan to test Job to see if he would continue to follow God amidst suffering. Job would lose his sheep, camels, servants, and children. In response to this loss, Job worshiped God and refused to blame Him. Next, Job would become afflicted by painful boils. Despite Job’s tragic sufferings, he refused to speak ill of God, even when his own wife told him to give up his faith. 

In the following chapters, Job wrestled with his experiences in suffering, as his three friends tried in vain to comfort and help him in his pain. They could not fathom that Job’s suffering did not result from sin. However, another voice, that of Elihu, spoke into Job’s circumstances with true wisdom: God is greater than man, holy, and just; only He is righteous and sinless.

God met Job amidst his questions, reminding him of man’s place within His created universe. Though mankind is unworthy of God’s goodness, the Creator delights in showcasing His glory to the ones He has made. After Job prayed for his friends, his fortune was not only restored, but it was doubled. 

Although God allowed Job to suffer, His hand was there to guide him, and His comfort remained by his side. What we glean from Job’s story is that God’s righteousness is so much greater than our own, that He is worthy of worship despite our circumstances. In 2 Corinthians 4:17, Paul declared that “our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.” 

There is only one truly righteous person who suffered unjustly: Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Help kids see that God is good, and His full worthiness is displayed in Jesus, the only truly righteous One. By faith in His finished work on the cross, we are counted as righteous and granted eternal hope. Pray that your kids will experience God’s goodness and place their faith in Him alone.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

STORY POINT

This is the main point to emphasize from today’s Bible story.

  • Preschool: God is always good.
  • Kids: God is good even in suffering.

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God is strong and mighty and good.
  • Younger Preschool: God is all-powerful and good. When we face hard times, we can trust God. God sent Jesus to die on the cross and rescue people from sin.
  • Older Preschool: Job saw that God is all-powerful and good. When we face hard times, we can trust God. God sent Jesus, who never did wrong, to suffer and die so that everyone who trusts in Him can have life with God forever.
  • Kids: In his suffering, Job recognized that God is all-powerful and good. When we face suffering, we can hope in God. God sent Jesus, the only truly innocent One, to suffer and die so that everyone who trusts in Him can have forgiveness and eternal life.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Who is in control? God is in control.
  • Older Preschool: Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything.
  • Kids: Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything in heaven and on earth. Nothing is outside of God’s good plan.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God can make bad things good. Genesis 50:20
  • Younger Preschool: God can make bad things good. Genesis 50:20
  • Older Preschool: You planned evil against me; God planned it for good. Genesis 50:20
  • Kids: You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people. Genesis 50:20

** Next week: God Called Moses (Exodus 1–4)

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Moses Parted the Red Sea (Exodus 13-15)

Unit 4, Session 3

Dear families,

The parting of the Red Sea is one of the most incredible accounts in Scripture. After God freed His people through the events of the Passover, He performed this amazing miracle to deliver them from danger and secure their hearts in worship to Him alone. In this passage, we see glimmers of an even greater miracle––the salvation of God’s people, once and for all time, through Christ’s miraculous sacrifice on our behalf.

Why did God lead His people into the hardships of the wilderness? What was God’s intention for rescuing His people from slavery?

While God led His people on a route that took longer and was different than expected, His divine purpose in doing so was for their good. But even more, He knew the waywardness of His people’s hearts and that the external threat of war would only intensify their inclination to doubt His provision. God led them to the perfect location to display His power and test their trust in Him.

In Exodus 7, God instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh, “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness.” The parting of the Red Sea was certainly enough to inspire worship as the people watched the Lord bring deliverance through the most surprising of means. Just as Moses had spoken, the threat of the Egyptians on that day would never worry them again. God revealed His awe-inspiring power through the parting of the Red Sea, though such a rescue seemed impossible. Like the Israelites, we can know that God will receive glory and that all who place their faith in Jesus will live in the hope of His salvation. Just as God’s people walked through the sea on dry ground, anyone who turns to Christ for salvation will pass through judgment and into eternal life.

Consider the internal and external factors that keep you from giving God the worship He deserves. Pray for the same understanding from the children in your family, that they would turn to Christ and receive His miraculous offer of salvation.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God made a way to save His people from Pharaoh. God made a way to save us from our sin by sending Jesus to die on the cross and rise again.
  • Younger Preschool: God made a way for His people to be saved. He parted the Red Sea so they could live. God made the way for us to be saved from our sin by sending Jesus. We can trust Him and be thankful.
  • Older Preschool: God made a way for the Israelites to be saved. He parted the Red Sea so they could live. We are all sinners who deserve to die for our sin, but God miraculously made the way for us to be saved by sending Jesus to die in our place for our sin and rise again.
  • Kids: The Israelites faced certain death, but God miraculously made a way for them to be saved by parting the Red Sea. We are all sinners and face certain death for our sin, but God miraculously made the way for us to be saved by sending Jesus to die in our place for sin and rise again.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Why does sin keep us from God? Sin keeps us from God because He is holy.
  • Older Preschool: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy.
  • Kids: Why does sin separate us from God? Because God is holy, sin has broken our relationship with God.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God hears and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Younger Preschool: The LORD hears, and rescues. Psalm 34:17
  • Older Preschool: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17
  • Kids: The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17

** Next week: God Provided for His People (Exodus 15-17)

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Joseph Taken to Egypt (Genesis 37; 39-46; 50)

Dear families,

Today’s passage tells of God’s faithful covenant being carried from Abraham to Isaac, then to Jacob, and now Joseph. Jacob loved Joseph more than his brothers because he was born to Jacob in his old age. Jacob’s favoritism toward Joseph caused the others to feel deep anger toward Joseph. 

Beyond Jacob’s treatment of Joseph, his sons grew even angrier after hearing of their brother’s dream, in which Joseph would reign over each of his siblings and their parents, too. The brothers’ jealousy and anger loomed so large that they schemed to take Joseph’s life; however, they settled with selling him into slavery instead, making it appear as though an animal had killed him.  

In Egypt, Joseph became a slave of the officer Potiphar, who promoted him over his household. God gave Joseph great success in serving his new master. Joesph obeyed God amidst life’s challenges, even against the temptation of Potiphar’s wife, in which he declared, “…how could I sin against God?” Though this refusal would send Joseph to prison, God was with him and granted him favor despite his terrible circumstances. Even the warden knew God was with him.

God gave Joseph the ability to interpret his fellow prisoners’ dreams and Pharaoh’s dreams as well. God’s sovereign care to be with Joseph and give him the ability to interpret dreams resulted in him being raised to oversee Pharaoh’s entire household. As Joseph served Pharaoh, God granted him wisdom to provide grain during a famine, not just for others in the land, but for his brothers as well. This is a full-circle story of God’s sovereign provision, faithfulness, and grace through trials. 

At the closing of Genesis, Joseph—in the aftermath of slavery, famine, and injustice—declares that God used his brothers’ evil plans to bring about flourishing for His people. Joseph extended words of comfort, courage, and kindness his brothers did not deserve. 

In Christ, we receive an even greater gift—everlasting life, the undeserved bestowal of immeasurable peace, courage, and kindness. Christ experienced injustice and suffering on our behalf so that we might gain eternal life and redemption. As faithful to God as Joseph was, Jesus is even more faithful, forever renowned as the suffering Servant who takes away our sin. Pray for your kids to place their faith in the One who redeems our sins and suffering for His glory and our good.

Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. 

FAMILY TALKING POINTS

STORY POINT

This is the main point to emphasize from today’s Bible story.

  • Preschool: God was always with Joseph and took care of him.
  • Kids: God was always with Joseph and blessed him.

CHRIST CONNECTION

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

  • Babies & Toddlers: God’s plans are good.
  • Younger Preschool: Even when bad things happened, God had a good plan. Jesus was killed on a cross, but He rose again to rescue people from sin.
  • Older Preschool: Even when bad things happened, God had a plan for good. Jesus never sinned, but He was arrested, beaten, and killed on a cross to bring about our good—so people could be saved from sin through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.
  • Kids: Even when bad things were happening in Joseph’s life, God had a plan for good. Bad things also happened to Jesus. Jesus never sinned, but He was arrested, beaten, and killed on a cross. Those things happened to bring about our good—so people could be saved from sin and death through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.

BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Younger Preschool: Who is in control? God is in control.
  • Older Preschool: Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything.
  • Kids: Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything in heaven and on earth. Nothing is outside of God’s good plan.

KEY PASSAGE

This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit. 

  • Babies & Toddlers: God can make bad things good. Genesis 50:20
  • Younger Preschool: God can make bad things good. Genesis 50:20
  • Older Preschool: You planned evil against me; God planned it for good. Genesis 50:20
  • Kids: You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people. Genesis 50:20

** Next week: The Suffering of Job (Job

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