20th Century World History Fun Online

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20th Century World History Fun Online

In “20th Century World History Fun Online,” Episode, #181, Laura Nolette & Meredith Curtis talk about Meredith’s 20th Century World History Class online at True North Homeschooling Academy. First, they talk about history co-oping and how they ended up leading a co-op and teaching online. They discuss history labs (design an amusement park, diaromas, acting out battles, radio shows, commercials) and how they add depth and fun to history studies.

 

 

 


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Show Notes

Our experience  history co-oping and teaching online

History Classes In Person – Co-op

  • All ages together for history lab
  • Separate classes for discussing history material
  • Archaeological Dig
  • “Olympic Games”
  • Quill Pens & Berry Ink
  • Tin Punching
  • Act Out Stagecoach Robbery
  • Underground Railroad Game (similar to capture the flag)

History Labs in the 20th Century

  • Games through the Century
  • DIY Miniature Gold
  • Diaroma of Battlefield – Trench Warfare
  • War II Poster
  • Listen to Music from each Decade
  • Radio Show – Truthful Reporting from Vietnam
  • Create an Airplane Company & Make Commercial
  • Plan a Trip on Route 66
  • Design an Amusement Park
  • Mapping
  • Family Trees
  • Much more!

Why Teaching the 20th Century Is Needed

  • So much of history is being rewritten
  • 20th Century impacts 21st Century
  • Socialism/Communism needs to be understood
  • Wars/Terrorism/Civil Rights Movement/Eugenics/
  • Set them up for success in the more formal years

World History 20th Century

  • Online classes at True North Homeschool Academy
  • 2 Classes – Middle School & High School
  • Textbook & Workbook at Home
  • Powerpoint, Videos, Project Sharing, and Discussion online

Benefits of Online History Fun

  • Teen LIKE history
  • Teens learn with other teens
  • Just one hour a week for 15 weeks/semester
  • Pleasant, wholesome atmosphere

20th Century World History at True North Homeschool Academy

  • World History of the 20th Century for High Schoolers

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20th Century Modern History for Jr. High at True North Homeschool Academy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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History for Christian Teens, Interview with Crystal Niehoff

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This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: History for Christian Teens, Interview with Crystal Niehoff. 

History for Christian Teens, Interview with Crystal Niehoff

History for Christian Teens, Interview with Crystal Niehoff

We have a new fellow podcaster on the ultimate homeschool Podcast Network. We are going to talk about the new podcast, History for Christian Teens, and about homeschooling for their family with Crystal Niehoff. 

About Crystal Niehoff

Crystal and her family are a military family. Her husband, Kevin, is a lieutenant colonel army chaplain, and he is also Crystal’s co-host – and fact checker – for the podcast. Kevin has a Master’s of divinity and a bachelor’s in History and a minor in Political Science. And both of them are huge history buffs.

Before, Crystal was the owner and CEO of Army Wife Network. And during that time, she also hosted and produced Army Wife Talk Radio. One of her most notable interviews was with Mrs. Karen Pence, the former Second Lady of the United States, as well as the entire cast of the Magnum PI series, which also served as one of the highlights of her career. 

BTW- For more interviews about military topics and homeschooling, check out these Homeschool Highschool Podcast episodes:

How It All Began

As a brand new Army wife, and with her husband on active duty, Crystal was trying to figure all that out when she came across Amy Wife Network. Eventually, she started blogging for them, and, when it came up for sale, she decided to buy the business. 

And so she grew it from there. 

Later, Crystal sold it to one of her coworkers, a sweet gal who had volunteered for her for many years and another military wife. She is still running Army Wife Network to this day. Except now, Crystal is getting ready to start blogging for them again. Quite the cycle!

Crystal’s advice to all mompreneurs:

Don’t wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it!

Don’t wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it! -Crystal Niehoff

Crystal’s Homeschool Life

Crystal and her family have been homeschooling since the year 2000. They have five children and five grandchildren, and they now continue their homeschooling journey with their two youngest who are getting set to graduate high school next year.

Not only that, Crystal is homeschooling her oldest granddaughter, Lexi, long-distance. Technology has been a blessing for them because it has allowed them to be able to continue that homeschooling legacy. 

Thanks to technologies, such as Skype and texting, she is able to stay connected with her daughter and granddaughter to help homeschool her where she lives. In fact, she wrote about it for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and was published last year in 2021. 

Additionally, her daughter has been inspired by her mother and is looking at homeschooling her oldest son when he starts kindergarten next fall. In this sense, Crystal is a second-generation homeschooler, having homeschooled her kids and now her grandkids are homeschooling.

Homeschooling As A Military Family

Military families usually move around a lot, and that was the case for Crystal and her family too. Because of this, homeschooling was such a blessing for them. But it was not without its challenges. 

Sometimes maintaining some continuity can be difficult when moving from place to place. But the neat thing is, homeschooling was a stabilizer in their life of moving pieces.

Military or civilian, homeschooling helps bond families. Because the parents really experience education with their children by learning right alongside them, which was the same experience with Crystal and her family.

Learning History for Homeschooling Families

Crystal learned history with her kids in a way she had not experienced before in public schools. One difference was that they chose to learn from a Christian perspective. It has been amazing for them to learn history as a family, not necessarily as “just the kids’ homeschooling.” Crystal calls it a family adventure. 

In fact, almost everything can become a history learning adventure for the Niehoff family. For instance, when they lived in Hawaii, they visited Pearl Harbor and Wheeler Air Army Airfield. There they learned World War II history right alongside their kids.

About Their Podcasting Adventure

Originally, it was supposed to be just Crystal doing the history podcast, but every time she talked about it with her husband, his eyes lit up. So she asked him if he wanted to cohost with her, and to her surprise, he said yes. And so, their podcast adventure began. 

Their heart is to genuinely bring history to life as they see it as more of a living thing. Crystal especially wanted to take the history podcast a step further by taking it towards a biblical perspective, or by “putting on your biblical glasses and seeing it through that lens,” according to Crystal. 

One way to describe this is:

If you are nearsighted, and you do not have your glasses on, you can still see up close without them. But if you get in your car, you really need to put your glasses back on because you will not be able to see much about a block away. 

But once your glasses are on, you can see the stop signs or the squirrel running across the road. And so it is the same with history or with life in general, when to have biblical glasses on, seeing it through the eyes of the Creator.

By doing this, you can understand why someone may make the choices that they’ve made. You can not only understand why they made these choices, but also perhaps take lessons from them to apply to your own life. 

Thus, in each podcast, Crystal and Kevin try to come up with lessons to present in the podcast, but still keep the podcast episode short (around fifteen or twenty minutes) so it be pleasurable to listen to. 

Crystal calls these history lessons “life application lessons,” and they try to present three things that listeners can learn from, such as:

  • A specific person from history or
  • Something about life that can be applied to their own lives.
  • A takeaway: “What can they learn from that?”

The podcast is unique on the Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network in that it is specifically geared for teens. It is called History For Christian Teens. Not only the parents but teens can listen to it on their own as well. And if they do, they can log hours towards leveling up their history credits when they are working on history

Podcast Topic Example

Here are a few podcast examples that are on History For Christian Teens:

  • Old Testament
  • New Testament
  • People and events in British history
  • Characters from the bible, such as Adam and Eve, Sarah and Abraham
  • Archaeological evidence

After they make their episode topics, Kevin will fact check. Afterward, Crystal and Kevin will take the Life Application lessons to give scriptural reasons to ensure its evidence is scripturally based.

BTW- The Niehoffs have also started the Military Homeschool Podcast.

HOW TO CONNECT

Check out the History for Christian Teens podcast app

Thank you to Richie Soares with Homeschool and Humor for writing this blog post!

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How to Get Teens Interested in History

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This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How to Get Teens Interested in History.

How to Get Teens Interested in History

How to Get Teens Interested in History

It is not unusual for teens to feel like History is a dull and boring subject. After all, it is difficult for textbooks to be fun to read! However, when you homeschool high school, textbooks are not the only choice for earning those necessary History credits!

Vicki shares the some ways to get teens’ buy-in and interest on their History credits in this episode. In her work with her own teens, co-ops and homeschool umbrella school group classes, she has found several ways to make History more meaningful and interesting!

How Vicki’s teens found interesting History studies

One of Vicki’s teens was really interested in History. He did not love History textbooks but he would use them as a jumping-off place for his own independent studies. He could read a bit of the text until he found something that sparked his curiosity, then he would jump off the text and find his own books and websites to explore.

Several of her teens liked to work from a syllabus. They could take the topics on a syllabus (or the table of contents in a textbook), then read real books on those topics.

Some of the ways to “sparkle up” a History credit

There are lots of ways to add interest to History topics. Here are a few:

Go on field trips

Homeschoolers never outgrow field trips! The nice thing about History field trips is that you can often take the entire family! Some History field trips we have enjoyed include:

  • National and State Historical Sites
    • These can be moving experiences. When teens see actual battlefields or places where momentous occasions happened, they learn and remember.
  • Local history interpretive centers
    • These can be especially helpful in learning local history and culture. Not only that but they often learn about actual events that happened locally.

Going on field trips helps teens learn that history is a real thing: real people who did real things!

Don’t forget that co-op field trips count. Log those hours! Use them for a Carnegie Unit History credit or leveling up to Honors for the homeschool transcript!

Watch documentaries and movies

Watch history-based movies and documentaries on the topic.

Movies are helpful because narrative helps an event come to life. Teens learn perspective taking and get more of the “feel” of an event or era. However, it is wise to do some critical thinking along with the movie. We suggest:

  • Having discussions about what was accurate or not in the movie
  • Practice some fact checking with reliable sources

Documentaries are nice because they present information in a visual format, often interestingly written.

Remember to log those hours! Use them for a Carnegie Unit History credit or leveling up to Honors for the homeschool transcript.

Give them books to read

They can count books for History credits can be also counted for their book list in English/Language Arts.

  • Biographies
  • Historical Fiction
  • Nonfiction

Here is a post on favorite American History books.

Learn family history together

Get the family together and tell the stories about family members from the past. Any little snippet of information is helpful. Family stories give History context and makes it come to life! Not only that, but family stories help teens understand their own roots. (They can also be used as the basis for a fun Family Narrative Short Story for English/Language Arts class.)

Let teens do some creative writing or research-paper writing

Teens can write a Family Narrative Short Story or come up with their own historical fiction story. They can use this as History hours as well as logged hours towards a Carnegie Unit History credit or leveling up to Honors for the homeschool transcript.

On the other hand, they might be more interested in writing their annual research paper on a History topic (that way they get credit for both ELA and History). They could choose a topic that has caught their interest and write an:

Don’t forget to log those hours! Use them for a Carnegie Unit History credit or leveling up to Honors for the homeschool transcript!

Study current events in context of the History

Why do people today feel the way they do? What influences people today that is rooted in the past? Do some google searches on the historical context of current events. Remember to stick to reliable sources!

Find an interesting textbook

This is a favorite (because our teens said so): History and Philosophy of the Western World. It teaches the history of the Western World through the philosophers who influenced the cultures of each time period. It may sound boring but it is actually a light-hearted text that helps teens learn to think philosophically while they learn history.  You can also get a free suggested syllabus for the text. Not only that but there are rubrics to help you grade your teens’ History and Philosophy of the Western World.

For more ideas, check out this post on five ways to earn American History credits.

Learning History can be inspiring and interesting! Join Vicki for an informative chat.

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Free Digital Resources for Black History Month

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Free Digital Resources for Black History Month

118: Free Digital Resources for Black History Month

There are so many great digital resources for Black History month, so I decided just to primarily share ones with you that I actually use in my own classes.

These are the sites I mention where one can find many primary resources related to Black History.

Movies

  • Hidden figures
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • Self-Made mini-series (fictionalized so check up the real story for comparison)

Documentary

Game

Flight to Freedom

Digital breakouts

Harlem Renaissance

Virtual Field Trips

  • Civil Rights Memorial – Find it on Google street view and then read short bios of people mentioned on it here
  • National Park Service 28 Days of Black History Month
  • Many of the sites on this list from The History Mom have virtual tours.

Primary Sources

Also take a look at this African-American Black History Pinterest board by Ayanna Murray

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Using digital timelines to study history

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Using Digital Timelines to Study History

116: Using digital timelines to study history

Digital Timelines are a great way to help students see the flow of history in a visual way.

Here are some ways to incorporate them into any history curriculum

1. Include Interactive Timelines of the periods you are studying

2. Get students to create digital timelines. These 4 timeline creator tools are easy to use and free

Canva – Find the Canva timeline templates here
Google Slides – use the “insert diagram” function
Padlet – this post explains how to use Padlet for timelines
Prezi – Find the Prezi timeline templates here

3. Play Online Timeline Games – this game is for American or World History

4. Create Online Timeline games – Classtools has a game that is easy to create. Here is a post that explains what to do.

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Raise Teens Who Love America

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Finish Well Homeschool Podcast, Podcast #128, How to Raise Teens Who Love America, with Meredith Curtis on the Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network

Raise Teens Who Love America

In “Raise Teens Who Love America,” Episode, #128, Meredith Curtis urges you to be proactive in raising freedom-loving young people. It’s so easy to take freedom for granted until you lose it. America has been a beacon of freedom and hope to the entire world for centuries, but do our children and teenagers appreciate their heritage? You can raise children and teens who are enthusiastic, yet realistic about the United States of America

 

 


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Show Notes

Diego “I Love America”

Venezuela

Cubans risking their lives to get here

Time in Germany (“We are all watching”)

Our Christian Heritage

Puritans, Pilgrims, and the Great Awakening

The influence of Jesus and the Word of God

Learn to look at history in light of national and world culture (e.g. cursing, sexual immorality, slavery, taxes, role of women)

Constitution

Based on Bible

God as Law-Giver, Judge, and King

Federalists & Anti-Federalists

Read/Discuss Constitution

Read/Discuss Bill of Rights

Meet the Founding Fathers

Freedom from Slavery

Christians Against Slavery

Both sides of the ocean—Wilberforce, Beechers

Underground Railroad

Immigration

Melting Pot

Ellis Island to Interwoven in the fabric of life

Horatio Algiers and the Rags to Riches Tales

Freedom in Education

Freedom vs. Government Nannies

Giving opportunities to experience freedom, taxation, entrepreneurships

Read biographies of brave freedom-lovers

Raising Patriots

Biographies (Cotton Mather, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, George Washington, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Quincy Adams, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, Daniel Webster, Charles Finney, Jedidiah Smith, Davy Crockett, Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Lew Wallace, Booker T. Washington, Washington Carver, Calvin Coolidge, John D. Rockefeller, D.L. Moody, Billy Sunday, John Wannamker, Ben Carson, Ronald Reagan)

Listen to people who love America (Prager U, Dan Bongino, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingrahm, Bill O’Reilly,

Patriotic Resources (A’Beka, Bob Jones, FACE, Powerline Productions, Notgrass, Liberty Press,

Patriotic Songs (God Bless America, Star Spangled Banner, My Country “tis of Thee, God Bless the USA)

Movies (Patriot, Harriet, Midway, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, Dave’s Barton’s American Heritage series, Dave’s Stott’s Drive Thru American History)

Cartoons (Learn Our History, This is America, Charlie Brown, Adventures in Odyssey)

Conservative Authors (Cal Thomas, Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, William F. Buckley, Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, Robert Bork, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, George Will)

Historical Fiction/Living Books/Biographies (The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Gifted Hands by Ben Carson)

Conservative News Sources (Newsmax, One America News Network, CBN News, Town Hall, The American Conservative, Epic Times, Daily Caller)

Pointing out Inconsistencies

Compare/Contrast

Listen to viewpoints of those who oppose the USA and discuss (Iran, Socialists, Mainstream Media, Academia, Critical Race Theory)

Where are they right?

Do they take it too far?

Where are they wrong?

Read Communist Manifesto—see how many times you can hear the book being quoted or ideas from the book being encouraged or esteemed

Go through Understanding the Times together or in a group

Make sure your teens understand the idea of living in a fallen world and the sin nature of man. There are no perfect people, ideas, or nations. All is flawed,  under the curse of sin.

Make sure your teens understand the redemption of Jesus. He saves, redeems, restores. The Word of God applies to all of life!

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Biographies for Book Lovers – MBFLP 254-2

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Biographies that you might enjoy as much as Hal did

Finishing up a listener’s question from episode 245, (“What Are You Reading Right Now?”), this episode Hal is talking about some of his favorite biographies, and why he likes reading this special form of history.

Biography is more than just the facts

Some years ago, Hal started reading biographies to learn more about figures in local history. What impressed him was how, when he’d been reading the life stories of men who had faced challenges and lived life with honor, faith, and courage, it started to show up in his own thinking — “How would such-and-such have handled this?”

That shouldn’t come as a surprise, after all. Paul wrote to the believers at Phillipi,

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, 
whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, 
whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, 
if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things. 

(Philippians 4:8, NKJV)

A life well and truly lived will show evidence of these things. What better way to consider them than to observe how other humans have applied them to the struggles of life?

People are complex

A well-written and honest biography will include the facts of the person’s lifetime, as well as the cultural context he or she dealt with. Much of the current “cancel culture” betrays an inability to recognize the good that a person accomplished in spite of their times, instead forcing long-passed people through a filter of 21st century sensibilities. At the same time, an accurate biography will acknowledge the faults and failures of the subject. Humans are highly complex and inconsistent beings, which may prevent us from reaching our best potential as well as hindering us from sinking as low as we might!

An account of someone whose life work has been assessed through the lens of time, whose impact has been seen by the outcomes of his actions and words, can be a powerful encouragement and example to follow — or an earnest warning of ways and ideas to avoid! And that’s why biographies can be good for the character and soul. It’s worth considering!

Why reading biographies can be good for the soul

 


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History for Book Lovers – MBFLP 254-1

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History for book lovers like me

Earlier this year we talked about books and authors the two of us enjoy together (episode 245, “What Are You Reading Right Now?”) and we mentioned that each of us has genres we like personally but separately. A caller on our Listener Response Line reminded us that we hadn’t returned to those books – “You teased us a little bit!” she said – so this week, Hal is sharing some books of history and biography which he’s been reading.

The Value of History

Over half the Bible is historical narrative, and God tells His people to remember the past and talk about it with their children. In Deuteronomy, Moses tells the people:

Remember the days of old, 
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you; 
Your elders, and they will tell you:
When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, 
When He separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel. 

(Deuteronomy 32:7-8)

The reference to “nations” and “peoples” says this is more than the history of Israel – it’s all of us as “sons of Adam.” When we learn about history, we’re learning how God has guided people and nations over the centuries, with and without their cooperation or consciousness, and we can learn or take warning by their example.

Hal shares recommendations for books on historical topics!

Our own Benjamin Franklin, whatever his personal theology, observed to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?” (here’s a transcript) … and we know this to be true because it’s in Scripture:

The Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.

(Daniel 5:21)

That’s a good thing to remember during this election year! And it’s a good reason to take a look at history, too.


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Meaningful & Fun Ways to Celebrate Easter at Home

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Finish Well Radio Show, Podcast #110, Celebrate Easter Week at Home, with Meredith Curtis on the Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network

Meaningful & Fun Ways to Celebrate Easter at Home

In “Meaningful & Fun Ways to Celebrate Easter at Home” episode #110, Meredith Curtis answers the questions you have about how to celebrate this significant Christian celebration without gathering with other believers in person to rejoice. She will give you Scripture, worship, prayer, hands-on activities, read alouds, and movie ideas to make this Easter Week the most meaningful ever!

 

 

 


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Show Notes

Coronavirus lockdown gives us a challenge that we have never faced before.

Easter is the high holy day of Christendom!

Easter Week

Mary anoints Jesus for Burial

Palm Sunday

Jesus Clears the Temple

Passover/Communion/Jesus washes feet

Prayer in the Garden

Arrest/Trail

Crucifixion

Burial

Resurrection

The Church Celebrates!

How God’s People Celebrate: Extra services, dramas, processions, parades, sunrise services

How to celebrate with the larger Body of Christ:

Streaming your local church

Streaming another local church

If you don’t have a home church of your church isn’t streaming, please feel free to join us for our live stream each Sunday during the lockdown at 10 a.m. You can watch us here: Powerline Church. https://www.facebook.com/PowerlineChurchFL/

Devotions

Scriptures to Read each Day can be found in our Easter Devotions:

4 Gospels tell the story!

Jesus Clears the Temple

Jesus was disgusted to see the corrupt money changers in His temple. He overturned their tables in righteous anger. Afterward, He healed the blind and lame before returning to Bethany for the night.

House of Prayer/Court of the Gentiles vs. Shopping Mall

Cleaning Hearts

Cleaning Rooms

Watch Gospel of John

Passover/Communion

Story of Passover from Exodus

Would you like to celebrate the Passover & Learn more about it? https://jewsforjesus.org/for-congregations/christ-in-the-passover

The Last Supper

Bread of Life/Wine is His Blood

Do this in remembrance of me!

Crafts & Activities: Elijah Cup, Bake Bread, Family Communion

Watch 10 Commandments

Prayer in the Garden

Jesus prays in the Garden for the church (John 17) and for the cup to be taken away; yet not His will, but His Father’s

All kinds of flower, plant crafts, Easter wreath

Try to pray together for one hour.

Arrest & Trial

Jesus is betrayed by Judas and is taken away to be tried by the Sanhedrin and then Roman courts.

Peter denies Jesus as the sun is coming up. Jesus is beaten and led off to be crucified.

Easter Egg Learning Activity

Crucifixion

Events of His death—forgiving criminal, It is finished, earthquake, temple curtain torn in 2.

Act out the Easter Week story with robes and towels

Watch Passion (for older children only)

Burial

He is buried in a rich man’s tomb, fulfilling prophecy

Pretend to “bury” the body of Jesus in a “tomb” Parents make sure to empty it before Easter morning!

Resurrection

Stream a Resurrection Sunday service

Feast!

Easter Egg Hunt int eh back yard.

Watch Risen

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Super-Hero Patrick! Life Lessons from Ancient History

In “Super-Hero Patrick! Life Lessons from Ancient History” episode #109, Meredith Curtis introduces you to a Super-Hero of old: St. Patrick of Briton who served the Lord as a missionary in Ireland, converting most of the island to the Christian faith. Pirates, kidnapping, escape, and years of training prepared him for his Irish ministry where he faced down evil powers with confidence in the Lord! You will love his story of faith, courage, and victory!

 

 

 


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Show Notes

Today we say super-hero. In the olden times we called them saint.

St. Patrick is truly a super-hero!

Christian Home

Father Calpomius—civil magistrate, tax collector, church deacon

Wealth

Patrick not walking with God like his parents

Pirates & Kidnapping

Vacation villa by the sea

Age 16

Life as a Slave

Sold in Ireland to a Druid tribal chieftan

Shepherded flocks

Gave heart to Christ—“holy boy”

Escape

Dream

22 years—traveled 200 miles to coast

Ran out of food but Patrick prayed

Freedom & Surrender & Training

Home to Britain

Studied to be Priest then Bishop

Called to A Dark Place

Dream of Irish asking him to come

A Showdown Like Elijah

433 AD vernal equinox same day as Easter—started an illegal bonfire

Dragged before Druid council—power encounter!

The Fruit of His Ministry

Ireland strongly Christian nation

A story of the faithfulness and compassion of God

Life Lesson

God allows trials to remove the dross and prepare us for the call on our life

The Lord loves sinners and puts that love in our heart

God is more powerful than the devil! His Word is true!

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