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Before teaching with this CD, check to make sure the VIDEOS work in the Bible Time Theater section of the program. If the curtain just opens and closes without playing the video, you need to open the CD's files and double-click on the Quicktime Installation program (often abbreviated QT32.exe). Follow the prompts. The videos require this program to be installed from the CD. If you get a "3mb Virtual Memory" or "xobglu16.dll" error message, see our solution for Noah CD at www.sundaysoftware.com/support

Outline of the Life and Ministry of Jesus CD

Note: The Discover the Bible section in Life of Jesus has bunches of scripture from the Gospels, but the main animated story and video clips center in on just a few of the events in Jesus' life.

The "Main" Animated Story: "Free Lunch" — Jesus teaches, heals. He feeds the 5000.

Bible Time Theater: Down Through the Roof — The Feeding of the 5000 — Jesus Walks on Water

Discover the Bible:

The Discover section contains not only the brief stories listed and accessible through scrollable icons on the side of the screen, it also contains remarkably large parts of the four Gospels. To access them, you need to click on the left or right "hands" on the bottom toolbar. There you will find all the Kids Application notes and articles scattered throughout the pages. Any portion can be "read aloud" by clicking the traffic light. By the way, none of the six select stories accessed through the icons have notes associated with them. You now have a "talking Bible" on your hands for most of the stories in the Gospels! Teaching Tip: Each of the Kids Application Notes has lesson potential. See if the kids can find the corresponding verses that anchor the notes in that area of scripture. A worksheet steering them through the Jesus CD with "things to go look for and research" (such as: the symbols for each of the Beatitudes) would be a valuable tool. You may want to keep track in a notebook of the Application Notes you have used over time in your lessons. Some of them are worthy of complete lessons in their own right. Some Application Notes have been starred for special attention.

Kids Application Notes found in Discover the Bible section

Matthew 16, 17, 18

Heroes and Villains: Jesus... Obey parents, do what Jesus would.
Heroes and Villians: Peter... about Peter and making enemies
Life then and now... how they built things
Sticky Situations... forgiving your debtors, a story about Chris.

Luke 4 through 15:32

I Wonder... Why did the Holy Spirit Come down on Jesus like a dove?
Amazing Facts... Why a person who touched Jesus was healed.
Life Then, Life Now... About how they fished
Life Then, Life Now... About lepers.
Heroes and Villains: Judas and the love of money.
Heroes and Villains: About Doubting Thomas
Charts.... The Beatitudes, what they were, how to develop them. Neat chart. **
Heroes and Villains: John the Baptist, doing good deeds (the story of "Dean")
Charts: Jesus and Women, all treated as equals. Verse listing of Jesus & Women.**
Living in a Bible Time House .....illustration and text.
Charts: How to Trust Jesus. 3 Steps to doing the right thing.****
Charts: A Collection of Attitudes: what people thought about the Samaritan. **
Memory Verses: Believe in the Lord Jesus and...
Memory Verses: Why Jesus cares about me, a kid. "Let the children come...."

John 1 through 10

Do the Right Thing...How to Bring Others to Jesus: Find, Tell, Show.*
The Twelve Disciples: Names and key lessons from their lives. **
Heroes and Villains: Nicodemus
Memory Verse: For God so loved the world....
Amazing Facts: Trusting God to do what you cannot. About the loaves and fishes.
Heroes and Villains: James (Jesus' brother), Judging others. **
Footprints of Jesus: His last week, a map of Jerusalem (on same page as John 8)
Heroes and Villains: The Herod family. Being "officially" religious. ***

Mark 11 (no Application notes, just the story of Palm Sunday)

Hall of Fame

Teaching Tips for Hall of Fame:
Consider making your own "Hall of Fame" in a take-home booklet or wall display.
Consider having kids research more about each of these people/stories. Have them use information to create questions for quiz game (such as Journey to the Promised Land) or Kidworks presentation.

People Jesus Knew:

Mary, Joseph, John the Baptist, Simon Peter, Judas Iscariot, Samartian Women, The Little Boy with the loaves, Pilate, Zaccheus, Simeon and Anna, Mary and Martha, Lazarus

The Life of Jesus Exhibit:

Jesus' birth, Jesus cleans out the Temple, Jesus walks on water, A storm obeys Jesus,
Jesus feeds the 5000, Peter catches lots of fish, Last Supper, Jesus is Arrested
The Crucifixion, The Resurrection, Jesus goes back to heaven.

Bible Memory —found in Fun & Games section

Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my....
Matt 5:14 ...light of the world.
Mark 6:41 ...Jesus blesses the five loaves
John 15:12 ...love one another...
Matt 4:19 ...I will show you how to fish for people.
Matt 7:17 ...do unto others
John 3:16 ...for God so loved the world...
I John 4:7 ...love one another
Matt 5:8 ...pure in heart
Matt 22:37 ...love...with all your heart...mind.
John 14:6 ...I am the Way....
I John 4:19 We love each other as a result of....

Teaching Tip: It is VERY common to use the Life and Ministry of Jesus CD in combination with other "Jesus software" which you may own (or need to get) for your teaching with computers. (It is also common to create a "Jesus software library" in your Sunday School knowing how popular he is to teach about!)

For example, the Feeding of the 5000 story is also found in the Life of Christ CD. So instead of needing 4 copies of Life of Jesus for that story, IF you already have 2 copies of Discovery's Life of Christ CD, you might only need two of Life and Ministry of Jesus CD on the two other computers. Students then SWITCH BETWEEN COMPUTERS (which they enjoy doing) to get the most out of each CDs on that story.

Another example: There is a brilliant animated/music piece in our Actual Reality CD featuring the Newsboys Christian rock group in which they discuss how to share Christ with others. This section could be used in tandem with Life and Ministry of Jesus' study note "Do the Right Thing...How to Bring Others to Jesus: Find, Tell, Show" found in the Discover the Bible section. Because Actual Reality CD deal with Christ quite a bit, it is common to find a copy or two in a children/youth computer lab. Stringing together such "pearls" is a fun way to teach and it makes the most of a number of excellent programs. AND you thus don't need one copy for each computer because you're running two different programs at the same time in your lab.

How do you "spot" such nice connections across the Jesus software? View/print our "Jesus Cross Reference" document at our website Teaching Tips page... www.sundaysoftware.com. And...email Neil MacQueen at neil@sundaysoftware.com. He loves helping folks with lesson plans!

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