Thank you for sharing this wonderful approach to Bible study with children and for a sample of your narration template . This is just what I was looking for! You recommend using an illustrated children’s bible that is written for an adult but has simple plot lines and I want to know if the DK Children’s Illustrated Bible fits that description.

Thank you for taking the time to write this article!
Hosanna Rodriguez

For maths I like the Mathematics Enhancement Projectand Yummy Math at which has plenty of great real world applications.

I will post more as time and house repairs permit.

Sandra

Thank you, Diane, for reminding us to stay focused!
Bridget

During the last few centuries leading up to Jesus’ birth, Greek tutors in classical rhetoric regularly taught Roman citizens. By the 1st century BC, Roman rhetoricians dominated the Greco-Roman world. As an educated Roman citizen, Paul surely completed the written exercises (later called the Progymnasmata in the 4th century AD) after learning the fundamental precepts of classical rhetoric. Besides the stylistic “schemes” of rhetoric involving manipulation of letters or sound (alliteration, assonance ) which can only be seen in the original Greek language, we English readers can recognize passages where he uses devices such as parallelism (Romans 5:12-21 comparing Adam to Christ) and litotes (the deliberate use of understatement in Acts 21:39, “I am a Jew of Tarsus…a citizen of no mean city…”). Rife throughout his letters are the three classical appeals: ethical, emotional, and logical. In every letter he establishes the ethical appeal of his authority to counsel the community (Galatians 1:1, “Paul an apostle – sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father…”) at the beginning. Emotional appeals (pathos) populate every letter (Philippians 2:1-2, “If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.”), and of course, logical appeals fill his arguments (2 Corinthians 6:14-16, “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness? What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God…”).

I could go on and on! Hebrews is a great example, and even Jesus regularly used a popular stylistic device called parables. Maybe some day I’ll be privileged to teach a class on classical rhetoric in the New Testament…;)