Text:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A16-19%2C+25-30&version=CEB
Good Background Video on Matthew (ch. 1-13) – All ages – you’re gonna wanna see this.
- Link to all the readings for this Sunday:
https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=149
- Heavy Load – Kid-style
https://sermons4kids.com/help_with_a_heavy_load.htm
Bible Challenge
Commentaries & Study Tools
https://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=4502
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/scofield-reference-notes/matthew/matthew-11.html
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/the-fourfold-gospel/by-chapters/matthew/matthew-11.html
https://www.blueletterbible.org/rsv/mat/11/1/s_940001
Art
Music/Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIzr7PWBMAo (kids praise/Polynesian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4ui0t_Dk8 (same song as above by a group of children from east Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bCf3faO8U (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JF6bQRGPs (contemporary, based on Matthew 11:28-30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRzRrc7XEjs (Worship/Scripture song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6mwljzjdk (hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA7dXriLLGk (from Handel’s Messiah, the Gramophone Chorus of Ghana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l32ICZeLlA (gospel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DquWxeycBIQ (contemporary/praise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpaULjZOl8 (praise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TutvZV3lBPA (country – Keith Urban)
Prayers
https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/prayers.php?id=149
Podcasts
https://www.pulpitfiction.com/notes/proper9a
*(this podcast also includes lots of resources, including Bible Study and questions, ideas from Pinterest to engage, etc.). Go to link and find the date for the Sunday you wish to study. Click that and you’re golden!
https://www.workingpreacher.org/brainwave.aspx?podcast_id=1274
*(this podcast also includes additional resources, such as the additional lectionary readings and commentaries for each reading.
Activities for Adults & Couples*
Activities for Young Adults*
Activities for Teens*
Activities for Young Families*
*Websites that we usually use for these resources are down (hopefully temporarily – they’ve been contacted). However, here is a link (below) to cooperative games for all ages. These require working together, helping one another and carrying each other’s’ burdens to succeed in the games.
https://www.ultimatecampresource.com/camp-games/cooperative-games/
Devotionals
*(interactive devotional – for all ages – written by young people).
https://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com/Content/Site115/Basics/59264JulyDevoti_00000031009.pdf
*(Daily devotions for the month of July)