Context for Kids

Episode 166: Being Like Jesus--Peacefulness

What does Paul mean when he talks about peace? What does Jesus have to say about peacemakers? Is peace a feeling or an action or both? To learn about this we will have to travel all the way from Galilee to Galatia and then to Rome.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/03/26/episode-166-being-like-jesus-peacefulness/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/orlaG6H0SJA

Episode 165: Abraham and the Mountain of the Lord

Abraham just found out on the Mountain of the Lord that God will provide. God was getting ready to make His final promise to Abraham and He swears by Himself that absolutely everything He ever promised to Abraham is a done deal and will happen through Isaac and his descendants.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/22/episode-165-abraham-and-the-mountain-of-the-lord/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/HFBAbXGSsiQ

Episode 164: God saves Isaac!

When is a sacrifice not a sacrifice? That’s the big question this week as the Angel of the Lord interrupts the sacrifice of Isaac. And what does this have to do with Jesus? We will also be discussing the ancient concept of the heavens in ancient Near Eastern context.

 

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/14/episode-164-god-saves-isaac/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8NRh5pNcZXs

Episode 163: Isaac’s Scary Question

Wait a minute—Isaac notices a red flag. They have the sacrificial knife, the coals for a new fire, and the wood, but there is no animal for the slaughter. As Han Solo would say, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” and Isaac is finally alone with his father and able to ask the question his father doesn’t want to answer.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/07/episode-163-isaacs-scary-question/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9vAf94KTA7s

Episode 162: Father Abraham said...nothing?? RU Serious?

Last time we were with Abraham, he had a terrible decision to make. Was he going to sacrifice Isaac in the Land of Moriah or was he going to refuse, or at least argue with God about it? Abraham's response is even more confusing than God's request--absolutely nothing for three whole days. We are starting to see hints about Jesus in this story, and so we will talk about the "type" of Isaac and the "antitype" of Jesus both carrying wood on their backs.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/12/18/episode-162-father-abraham-said-nothing-ru-serious/

YouTube (longer version): https://youtu.be/qQKLk8UmszU

Episode 161: Jesus, the Hannukah King

So, this year, I want to talk about Advent, which is a season on a lot of liturgical calendars but is often misunderstood as being another name for Christmas--which it isn't. Advent is a word meaning "the arrival of an important person or event" and because Advent almost always (but not this year) overlaps with Hannukah and many scholars believe Jesus was conceived in the winter and born during the Fall Festivals, I would like to think that the Light of the World was indeed conceived during Hannukah, beginning a nine-month season of waiting with anticipation for His birth for Mary and ourselves looking even more forward to His second coming.  Let's tell a "what if" story based on the Gospel of Luke to see what the beginning of Mary's wait might have looked like.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/12/04/episode-161-jesus-the-hannukah-king/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/S-S7AomkCh8

Episode 160: Thankfulness and the Dayenu of Jesus

This week we are looking at the difference between being sad and being ungrateful. I am also talking to the kids about why Jesus was all He had to be and how anything less wouldn’t have been enough to save us.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/26/episode-160-thankfulness-and-the-dayenu-of-jesus/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q5F9PL4dXOA

Episode 159: Abraham’s Terrible Test!

This week, we are beginning the last chapter of Torah Portion Vayers, where God says something shocking to Abraham in order to test him.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/20/episode-159-abrahams-terrible-test/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekW1OgGhoWM

Episode 158: Types, antitypes, and human sacrifice?

Genesis 12 begins next week and we have two more things we need to learn before that. First of all, we are going to talk theology with typology, which is a fun and clever way to discover clues about Jesus all the way through the entire Bible. Then we get serious and talk about human sacrifice but don’t worry--I am not going to be gross about it.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/12/episode-158-types-antitypes-and-human-sacrifice/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4Hz5T8QHu8

Episode 157: What is an Olah Offering?

To better understand the Akeida in Genesis 22, we need to have some background on the olah offering—also translated as the whole burnt offering or ascending offering. What was it? How was it different from other sacrifices? Why did they believe that God needed smoke in order to smell it? This lesson is going to give us a lot of ancient Near Eastern context!

 

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/10/31/episode-157-what-is-an-olah-offering/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ad-8iFZnUpI