Context for Kids

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

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