Context for Kids

Episode 173: Grownups Behaving Badly on Social Media

This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year on social media so far but the last two weeks have been the worst so far. Sometimes, when grownups and kids are in front of a computer and can’t be punched, the say the most terrible things you can imagine to others--things they wouldn’t ever say if they were in front of the person. And if they would say those things in person, they need Jesus really bad. So, we are going to talk about body shaming and insults and how we should treat one another.

 

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/06/13/episode-173-grownups-behaving-badly-on-social-media/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/-jjdFK_LUZ8

Episode 172: The Rich Man on the Trash Heap

Yeah, everyone calls it the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man but when we look at what Jesus was telling His audience of mostly poor Jews, it was a funny and outrageous story about a very rich man who is so rotten that he ends up getting thrown into the canyon where all the trash of Jerusalem is burned.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/06/08/episode-172-the-rich-man-on-the-trash-heap/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/zqwC_7i3ZtM

Episode 171: The Miracles of Jesus and Why It Isn’t Good to be Alone

I love the Doctor Pimple Popper TV show because she has something in common with Jesus in the work she does to reunite people with their communities! Jesus healed people and no one did it better than Him but sometimes we forget that the most important thing about many of His miracles is that He got people back together with their families!

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/23/episode-171-the-miracles-of-jesus-and-why-it-isnt-good-to-be-alone/

 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ciy2tIX2bh0

Episode 170: Sheep, Goats, and the Love of Jesus

How do we love like Jesus? We’re going to talk about the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, how goats aren’t evil, and what it looks like to love the least of these in school and church.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/07/episode-170-sheep-goats-and-the-love-of-jesus/

 

YouTube:  https://youtu.be/BhKgIiGHnE0

Episode 169: Love and the Good Samaritan

Before we go back to Genesis and tackle the ever growing family of Abraham, we need to understand love as Jesus taught it. Otherwise, we might make the mistake of thinking that God approves of the nonsense those guys get into. Case in point—selling your little brother as a slave is not okay.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/02/episode-169-love-and-the-good-samaritan/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZUjw_df4TEw

Episode 168: Being Like Jesus—What is Love?

Love is a very complicated thing in the Bible and so we are going to treat it very seriously. The Bible shows us that God’s love is emotional and active and also very interested in justice and mercy. And of course, we can’t talk about love without mentioning Mister Rogers!

Transcript:  https://contextforkids.com/2025/04/25/episode-168-being-like-jesus-what-is-love/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/f8GG7YuiGzE

Episode 167: Being Like Jesus—Joyfulness

What is joy and how is it different from happiness? This week, I teach the kids about my own journey from sorrow to joy and we’ll talk about Jesus’s joyful life.

Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/04/03/episode-167-being-like-jesus-joyfulness/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDINsXL8Qk

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