The Gospel Project for Kids Weekly Leader Training

In this week’s story, we see that God fights for His people and gives them peace and rest. We live in a world filled with conflict and pain. We desperately want peace. The reality is that true peace doesn’t come from any amount of solitude or self-confidence; we need true peace that comes from being... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 8, Session 2—God Gave the People...

In our Bible story this week, we see not just mercy, but courageous mercy. Rahab by faith, courageously trusted God and hid the Hebrew spies. Mercy is not courageous until being merciful costs us something. Rahab’s mercy was pushed to the testing point. She had compassion and, in doing so, risked her life. She showed... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 8, Session 1—Go...

In 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Paul points out that Scripture is enough for us. It is our source for godliness and our final authority in matters pertaining to doctrine. The confessions of every Protestant denomination affirm the sufficiency of Scripture.  Why does this matter for kids? We need to teach our kids that even though the... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 7, Sessi...

The children of Israel often gave in to worry and bitterness. Their attitude revealed deeper heart issues: their belief that God had failed to take care of them and would fail in the future. It was in the 40 years of wandering in the desert that God showed them over and over that He was... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 7, Session 2—God Stopped the Jordan River appe...

We often think that fear is the absence of courage, and to some degree, it is. However, true courage is not someone who is free of fear. Courage comes to us most often, and especially when we are young, from the presence of another. In C. S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lucy,... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 7, Session 1—God Encouraged Joshua appeared fir...

Peter began his first epistle by reminding believers that we are not of this world; our true citizenship is found in God’s kingdom. As such, we live in the present world as exiles and ambassadors—representatives of our true King. With this reminder established, Peter explained how Christ’s ambassadors are to live, which can be summed... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Uni...

If there was one thing the Israelites were good at, it was grumbling. They weren’t just good; they were experts: “We have no food. We have no water. Why are we in the wilderness left to die? The land has big people in it.” And on and on and on. We have to wonder how... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 6, Session 3—God Healed the People appeared first on The Gospel Pro...

Many of us categorize sins, whether we intend to or not. There are the major sins—the really bad ones like murder that are clearly wrong. Thankfully, few of us are prone to commit these sins, so we are pretty safe from them. Then there are the significant sins, like getting angry or lying. We know... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 6, Session 2—Moses Disobeyed God ap...

If you’ve ever bought a house, you likely know that even the “most perfect” house really isn’t perfect. There seems to always be some compromise that must be made: location, yard size, location of a bathroom, school district, price, and so forth. The choice is then ours to make: do we live with the compromises... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 6, Session 1—The Peopl...

Think back to Eden. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, their eyes were opened and they realized their nakedness. What was once no problem in their innocence had become shameful in their sinfulness. So the couple took leaves to try to cover their bodies and their shame. But what did God do just before... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 5, Session 5—God Deserves O...

One of the key themes of the Bible is God’s desire to live with the people He created. We see this first in God’s creating the garden of Eden, placing Adam and Eve into this paradise, and then presumably coming down regularly to be with them. But when Adam and Eve rebelled against Creator God,... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 5, Session 4—The People Built the Taber...

After all God had done for the Israelites, the story of the Israelites’ worshiping a golden calf may seem surprising. How could God’s people turn so quickly from God, who delivered them from slavery and provided for them, even after they explicitly agreed to do everything He had commanded? (See Ex. 24:3.) When we think... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 5, Session 3—...

As the rescued people of Israel traveled toward the promised land, God met with Moses at Mount Sinai and made a covenant with the Israelites. We refer to this covenant as the Mosaic covenant. God promised five things in this covenant: 1) Israel will be God’s own possession; 2) Israel will be God’s kingdom of... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 5, Session 2—God Gave th...

The Israelites had personally experienced God’s faithfulness as He directed them out of Egypt, fought for them as He parted the Red Sea, and then delivered them into the wilderness with the promise of a land of their own. What happened next is retold as a cautionary tale in both the Psalms and Book of... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 5, Session 1—God Provided Manna...

God’s faithfulness is present throughout the Bible, but the theme is prominent in the Book of Exodus. God is consistent and unchanging. Even when the Israelites are faithless, God is faithful. The Israelites regularly celebrated God’s miraculous acts like the Passover and the parting of the Red Sea to remember that God keeps His promises.... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids...

God’s people were finally free. After 430 years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites—now numbering 600,000 men plus their families—were on their way out with Moses as their leader. God had promised to give them a new land: “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex. 3:17). What did sudden freedom feel like? Did the... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 4, Session 3—God Par...

God’s heart is for His people. When the Israelites cried out to the Lord, He heard them and had a plan to rescue them from their suffering. That’s why God called Moses back to Egypt. Though Moses had been raised among the royal household in Egypt, his heart was for his own people too. God... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 4, Session 2—God Delivered His People appear...

Moses’ life was in danger from the moment he was born. He was an Israelite—a descendant of Israel (Jacob)—living in Egypt after Jacob’s family had moved there, seeking food during a famine. Jochebed hid her baby boy as long as she could—about three months—before she put him in a basket among the reeds of the... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 4, Session 1—God Called...

In research, there is a common practice used to measure data: the pretest and posttest. The pretest is a baseline, assessing the state of something prior to experimental factors being introduced. As is suggested by the name, this happens prior to the experiment.  The posttest is a comparison, designed to compare the outcome of the... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3...

The story of Joseph is packed full of moments that resonate with us. Maybe you were the favorite child or the favorite child’s sibling. Some people resonate with being cast away from family or being undeservingly welcomed into a new family. Some resonate with finding favor with an enemy or showing favor to an enemy.... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3, Session 5—God...

Jacob’s journey in Genesis is one of unexpected and undeserved blessing after blessing. With a name that literally means “he cheats,” Jacob was a surprising recipient of the privilege and opportunity God gave him. Jacob was a cheater, a liar, and a deceiver. He was quiet and not strongly gifted. And he was gullible, too.... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3, Session...

It’s been said that when a word or phrase is repeated in the Bible, we ought to pay close attention. In Genesis 22, Abraham repeated one phrase three times: “Here I am.” Abraham first used “Here I am” on his journey when God called his name. Abraham’s eager response to God shows that he was... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3, Session 3—God Provided Isaac appeared f...

We marvel at stories with two characters who are total opposites of each other. This is why so many stories feature some form of a noble hero and an immoral villain. The contrast of character and conduct is what drives the tension of the story.  In Genesis 14, we find two completely opposite kings: the... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3, Session 2—Melchizedek Bless...

Think about all of the choices that we have each day. Just in the morning, we have dozens of different cereals to eat, perhaps that many varieties of milk to pour on top of the cereal, and nearly as many ways to make coffee to go with it. All of these are choices that we... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 3, Session 1—God Made a Covenant with Abraham appeared first o...

We love to measure the health, success, or sustainability of pretty much anything and everything. We measure our kids by their grades in school. We measure teams by their wins and losses. We measure people by their influence and following on social media. In a world obsessed with measuring “success,” we ought to be assessing... The post Weekly Leader Training for Preschool & Kids: Unit 2, Sess...