Preschool Sunday School Lessons: Life of Jesus

This is a blog for my lesson planning for the Winter-Spring 2010 term of the Preschool Sunday School Class. What a joy it is to teach the kids about the life of Jesus. Previous older posts were from my bible study journalling.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Judges - It was a total mess

Without re-telling the whole story of Samson, here are some highlights and early warning signs that his life was doomed, and contributing factors

Bad parenting?
1) He did not respect his Nazarite vow, made by his mother before his birth.
2) He disobeyed his parents, had a whiny and bad temper and they gave in to his request to marry a woman from on the street.

Disobeyed God's laws
1) He touched a dead animal and ate honey from its carass. I thought this was forbidden in the rules in Levitiicus
2) Delilah. He gave up his own secret to

He was a brute and an immature troublemaker
1) Making a difficult riddle to stump his wife's clan
2) Stealing linens and armour from soldiers he killed in a random attack just to take their stuff.
3) Tied fox tails together and let them light up the whole camp on fire.

Towards the end of the book, it keeps repeating the same thing. "There was king, Israel did as he pleased."

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