July 5, 2020 – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

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

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-displayindex.pl?SID=20200629984923620&pagenumber=1&code=act&

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

https://d365.org/

*(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)