We don’t like our children to be troubled by difficult news. Especially in America where our children do not face daily struggles of war and famine like they do in other parts of the world, we would rather flip on the Saturday morning cartoons and let the commercials preach rainbows and unicorns. A child’s dream…
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Led by the Voice to Repent, and assisted by those Appointed
Our youngest Ephesus School students learned a new Hebrew word. “Manah” means “to appoint.” In the book of Jonah, at least in the English, God “appoints” a large fish to swallow Jonah, a plant to grow, a worm to devour it, and a sultry east wind to bring Jonah to his senses. Unlike the defiant,…
Jonah’s “Time Out”
Today we discussed Jonah 2, Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the big fish. Imagining the condition inside the big fish, we thought of Jonah’s possible reactions. How could he breathe? What would he eat? Wouldn’t it be scary to be eaten by a big fish? The tone of the poem, rather than fearful, struck…
Breaking Crayons
The goal with our youngest children at Ephesus School this past weekend was to give them the opportunity of simply hearing the Bible story from beginning to end. (The content of Scripture rivals the best fairy tales and Mother Goose stories. PLUS, there are no illustrations which allows the child to imagine the story from…
“Shuv” in Jonah: First lesson with youngest children at Ephesus School
Our youngest students, ages 6 and younger, enacted “shuv” from the story of Jonah. They traced the Hebrew letters for “shuv” which means “to turn or repent.” We have many characters turning in the story of Jonah: from the seamen who turned to Jonah’s God, to the large fish who turned Jonah around from Tarshish…