I am teaching Bible by using the layout/format in the NP Reading Curr. Guide. They have it broken down into 4 headings to coincide with 4 quarters in the year. I’ve gotten behind and I’ve given up keeping up with their schedule but I press on b/c we have been enjoying our study, at our pace, in our own wayt!!

1. The Immediacy of Christ
2. The Old Testament History
3. The Wisdom Lit and Prophets
4. New Testament History

Under THE IMMEDIACY OF CHRIST

I have chosen the following to teach for our first quarter:

• Prophecies of Jesus birth
• Birth of Christ and childhood
• Death and Resurrection
• Christ’s example of self-gov’t in being obedient to parents, His temptation and triumph, obedient all the way to death
• crucifiction and ascension/How He brough salvation

Now for resources I’ve chosen to use the coloring/activity sheets from Calvary chapel. These serve as both Bible study pages and BAR-vocabulary from the word find…looking up scriptures for the crossword puzzle, and other supplemental independent and oral reading for my 8yo. The principle we reasoned to when we studied the prophecies of HIs birth was GOD PROMISED TO DELIVER MAN FROM SIN. We started with Isaiah 9:1-7(from the Calvary chapel activity sheets) and talked about the state of man according to what Isaiah 9:1-7 stated. I asked many WHY questions and then asked the same questions another way just to ensure they understood why God sent a deliverer. This was a most blessed time. I could see in my dc’s faces that their hearts had been touched by the fact that Jesus took their punishment. He didn’t deserve it and He did nothing wrong but He loved them so much that He took their punishment…that we were the ones born into sin and Jesus became that sin for us. How wonderful it was even for me to remind myself of this. Then we went to Isaiah 53:2-12 and reasoned to the same principle that this was God giving a message to his special servant, the prophet Isaiah about His promise to send a Savior.

Our next series of lessons Gabriel visits Mary(Luke 1:26-38 and other referrin scriptures) and The Birth of Jesus(Luke 2:1-7) all reasoned to the principle that GOD IS A PROMISE-KEEPER; GOD KEPT HIS PROMISE TO SEND A SAVIOR TO MANKIND….(and if God kept His promise back then then surely He will keep His promises to us) as we witnessed the evidence of the Savior being born thru the scriptures.

Much of what we talked about in our lessons God gave me on the spot or the morning of the lesson. I did not plan on teaching these principles..they came as I kept looking over my lessons and even in the midst of teaching some of them a principle would pop into my mind and then I’d steer the lesson for us to reason along those line. My lessons were all nicely laid out but I’m learning to stay loose and I have to keep in mind that this is God’s lesson not mine. I am supposed to be allowing HIM to teach not me. So I find I get less and less upset when my schedule/lesson does not go as I plan and many, many times I feel somewhat uncomfortable with a lesson I have written and instead of just forging ahead like I used to do, I am learning that that is God gently nudging me and so then I have to stop and listen and pray. I’m learning as I stay humble and sensitive to Him many times He will change my lessons, give me principles I had not thought of and the lesson goes so wonderfully…..wonderfully b/c then I know I’m in His will with these lessons.

I also try to think of these principles as TRUTHS… I ask the Lord what TRUTH about Him should I be teaching my dc in this particular lesson.