Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/03/nt-acts-19-21.html Years ago, when I taught in Primary, I made a roller box. It has been years since I thought about it. It seems I have been in the youth programs for ever. There is no better calling and I would simply cry if ever taken out of it! However, the more I teach seminary, the more I find the simpler things I did in primary, can be…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/03/nt-100-days-of-seminary.html To Celebrate 100 days we have been in seminary this year…. I made up 100 Names of Christ bingo game. Using the topical guide and bible dictionary, I picked out 100 New Testament names or phrases that mean Jesus Christ. Then using this website: http://print-bingo.com/print-bingo-cards.php I was able to generate 4 bingo cards on one sheet of paper. Each student got on page (with had the four…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/03/nt-acts-16-18-idols.html They busily set about making an idol. (I brought all my play-doh tools/toys and let them create for about 10 min.) Then they were to place the idols around the room, in random places..This was Paul’s second missionary journey. As he was in Athen’s he was upset to see “the city wholly given to idolatry” (Acts 17:16) He came across an alter that had a sign on it “TO…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-13-15-scripture-basketball.html Scripture Basketball While one team tried to get as many baskets as they could… The other team had to listen to the question I gave them. Read the scripture block to find the answer. Once they gave me the correct answer, I yelled stop. The team shooting baskets then went to the board and wrote down how many baskets they made.This was a fun way to cover Paul’s first…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-12-faith.html What is faith?Paul tells us in Hebrews 11:1 it is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things seen. Alma declared that faith is not a perfect knowledge, rather if we have faith, we hope for things not seen but are true. (Alma 32:21) I passed out paper plates (because I have a lot of them) and had them draw a spiral then cut it…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-10-fair.html As they came into class, I had them line up and gave them each a letter grade, telling them that Bro. Baker (our CES director) needed them. Some were not pleased with how I decided their grades! Imaging that! We discussed how they thought I came up with their grades and it was unfair. I was being partial to the taller members of the class. Until Acts…
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Have I Done any Good in the World Today?I am an Activity Day’s leader in my ward and we (my companion, the girls and I) thought for one of our “Serving Others” activities, we would do a scavenger hunt. Really this activity could be modi…
Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-6-7-scripture-quilt.html Divided up the scripture block into four sections. (Our class was few in numbers today) We made a Scripture Quilt! I handed out 5×5 “quilt ” blocks (paper) and had them:1. read their scripture block2. pick out the most important point to them3. draw a picture on the quilt block4. share with the class their thoughts and add their quilt block to the quilt backing!
Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-4-5-gospel-rolls-forth.html Who is Spencer W. Kimball referring to when he says:“this great church president”“man of great faith”“bold leadership”“unwavering testimony”“unparalleled courage”“almost limitless understanding” If you guessed Peter, you were correct!The priests didn’t know what to do with Peter. They wanted him to stop talking about Jesus and His gospel. Trying to silence him, they had him arrested.BUT5,000 people heard him and believed!Trying to stop the gospel from flooding the…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-3-lifting-burdens.html Started off class by having them silently read Acts 3:1-9Then showed this video:We discussed what else or who else can the lame man, Peter & John and the healing represent. They came up with some great answers!Lame man could be, those without the gospel, us, sinPeter & John could be missionaries, Savior, us doing baptisms for the deadHealing could be the words of Christ, Atonement, temple work…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/tell-me-who-you-are-apostles-game.html It seems we didn’t know much about our present day 12 Apostles. So I found on line information about each of them, typed it up and printed off their pictures. One by one they each took a turn picking a description and reading it to the class. Then we had to guess who we thought it was. We were excited to learn there are lawyers, businessmen, car salesman, pres….
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-acts-2-law-of-consecration.html Can you believe 3,000 souls were baptized and they lived the Law of Consecration?Amazing to hear that the new converts “continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship” (Act. 2: 42) To understand a little more about this Law, we played a game… using this idea found here
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