Easy-to-Make Crafts to Help Children See the Big Picture of the Bible

This book is filled with 101 reproducible crafts suitable for children ages 3-10, each depicting a character, event, or object connected directly to a story in the Bible. Created by the illustrator of the best-selling The Big Picture Story Bible, this easy-to-use resource is perfect for reinforcing Bible lessons at church, at school, or at home.

Each craft includes:

a corresponding Bible passage

a detailed supply list

instructions and suggestions for different age groups

an illustrated memory verse

Until Relatively Recently, the history of higher education in the West was the story of a Christian academic tradition that played a major role in both intellectual history and the history of the church. Over the last one hundred years, however, we have witnessed the progressive secularization of higher education. George Marsden goes so far as to suggest that the American university has lost its soul. But what was that putatively Christian soul? Precisely what in the Christian tradition has now been lost? And what should we know about that tradition as a condition of practical wisdom for the present? Seeking to answer these questions, Arthur Holmes here explores the Christian tradition of learning, focusing on seven formative episodes in history that pertain to building and maintaining a strong Christian academy today. Holmes's fascinating treatment is set within the history of ideas -- the early church in a pagan culture, Augustine's formative influence on monastery and cathedral schools, the rise and decline of scholasticism, Renaissance humanism's contribution to the Protestant Reformation, the utilitarian view of education that accompanied the scientific revolution, and struggles with Enlightenment secularization -- and incorporates the educational thought of Plato and Isocrates, Clement and Origen, Abelard and Hugh of St. Victor, Aquinas and Bonaventure, Erasmus and the Reformers, Francis Bacon and John Milton, and John Henry Newman.

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Each of the 34 articles explores a specific area of importance to childhood education. Together they present an up-to-date and complete picture of the Christian education of children.

Are you signed up to serve at a Christian camp this summer? Whether you are a veteran staffer or have never been to camp before, this book is for you!

Get your heart ready for the spiritual challenge of camp leadership.

Consider why you are going to camp, and what will be expected of you.

Learn what makes kids tick, and ways of developing healthy relationships.

Prepare to lead effective Bible discussions.

Gain skills in managing issues and problems.

Become confident in sharing your faith in Jesus.