Teach Kids What Matters

Here are some thoughts to get ready for Easter, and then a free and timely gift for you that springs from these stories. But I would like to expain the context of this gift with these stories before I give you your gift. So here we go:

I have two really special Passover Lamb stories I want to talk about, and then I want to show how they are connected in a very special way. 

• The first story is the the story of the Israelites as slaves in Egypt. They were made to work hard, building bricks, and their masters were cruel. But God had a plan to rescue them. Moses was chosen to be their leader.

When he repeatedly went to Pharaoh and asked him to free the Israelites, Pharaoh repeatedly said “No.” So God gave the 10 plagues to the Egyptians to show Pharaoh that God was in control. Although they were all powerful, the last plague was the most dramatic. God sent an angel to kill all the firstborn babies and the firstborn animals of the Egyptians. But He...