I love those books where you can choose your own ending.  Paul sent a letter to Philemon, a slave owner of Onisimus. (O-nis-i-mus)

Onisimus ran away and became a follower of Pauls. He wanted to stay with Paul and Paul wanted him to stay. But he knew it wasn't right. He told Onisimus to go back to Philemon. Paul wrote to Philemon trying to persuade him to think about what he would do before he acted.

Paul was faithful and courageous and encouraging to his young friend Timothy. Even though Paul was facing conviction and execution, he still had time to send off a positive letter to Timothy.

How could someone be so positive when being faced with this knowledge?

Simple 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power and of love and of a sound mind"

How do we know when we have the spirit and we when we don't?

EphesiansPut on The Whole Armor of GodThis was a 2-day activity and worth the class time.One day, I introduced Paul's teachings on the whole armor of God and they spent the last half of class divided in to groups making their armor. I had them refer to the scriptures to make sure they had all of the pieces of armor Paul taught about. The next day, they came in and did some last minute finishing of their armor. After that, they modeled the armor and we checked off their armor against the pieces Paul taught in Ephesians.After the "fashion show", we compared physical armor vs spiritual armor and

Here is another scripture insert: We read through Eph. 6: 10-18 and discussed what some of the words meant:

Be Strong
Put on
Stand
Wiles
Devil
Loins
Girt up your loins
Truth
Righteousness
Preparation
Salvation

I gathered 25 various items from home that would relate to scripture mastery, then placed them in a basket.

I had the title song for “Mission Impossible” (an appropriate version) playing in the background as student entered class. It would be fun to dress in a way that fits the lesson, but I did not have that much forethought… There were TOP SECRET folders on each desk when the students came in (Except for […]