This week consider a time when you opened the alabaster box.
What was the cost?
Teaching Tips for Kids
Spend some time talking about sacrifice and the cost of sacrifice. Consider buying each of them a cupcake and then asking them to gift it to someone in the neighborhood who needs their heart lifted. Ask them how they felt after they were done.
Teaching Tips for teens
Have a discussion about worship and sacrifice. Why are both important?
Teaching tips for individuals and couples
In this lesson we read two accounts of humility and submission. Both epitomize the service of love. One is the woman who broke open the alabaster box. The other is Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. What do you learn about each of these accounts?
There was deep symbolical meaning, not only in that Christ did it, but also in what He did. Submission to His doing it meant to symbolically share and part with Him ––part in His Work. What He did, meant His work and service of love; the constant cleansing of one’s walk and life in the love of Christ, and in the service of that love. It was not a meaningless ceremony of humiliation on the part of Christ, not yet one where submission to the utmost was required; but the action was symbolic… of the daily consecration of our life to the service of love after the example of Christ.
Alfred Edersheim
Don't Miss This in the New Testament
Come Follow Me 2023 Study Tools
Maybe you know this about us by now, but we are both visual, hands on learners. Because of that, we are always trying to discover study tools that will help bring the scriptures to life in your home. We will be using several different study tools this year, here is what we love most about each of them:
Videos: For the New Testament we will be recording all new hour long videos, but this year they will be broken into ten minute segments in case you want to watch them for ten minutes every weekday, or you can watch them all at once. These videos are totally free and can be found on YouTube or on our APP.
Journal: The journals for the next four years have been totally redesigned with a theme in mind. You will find questions to ponder daily that can be used for teaching or family discussions. There are workbook pages based off of our most favorite part of each lesson that week. You can also use these workbook pages for lessons or discussion. There will also be a space for recording one name of Jesus Christ each week.
Devotional Book: Perfect for a 5-10 minute lesson, these books can be used as a devotional every day. This book is designed for personal study or family study. We love to use ours around the dinner or breakfast table.
Word a Week Posters: Perfect for a three minute study, these posters include one word and one verse a week for pondering. Hang them somewhere in your home where they will be a daily reminder of Come, Follow Me. This year we will be studying one name of Jesus Christ found in that week’s lesson. By the end of the year we will have come up with 52 names.
Tip Ins: These are small papers that can be glued right in your scriptures with tips and truths that will help to improve your study.
Stickers: Use these colorful stickers in the margins of your Scriptures or in your Don’t Miss This Daily study journal.
Hopefully these tools will make your scripture study something you look forward to!
THE APP
We created a Don’t Miss This App hoping to make your Come, Follow Me study easier and more convenient.
Here is what you will find at your fingertips all in one place:
YouTube videos
Podcasts
Newsletters with teaching tips for young kids, teens and adults.
Five minute DAILY studies to use first thing in the morning or just before bed.
A personal journal section where you can gather all things Come, Follow Me including pictures, videos, PDF’s, webpages. You can keep all of your study elements into one place.
The Old Testament timeline and other visual teaching helps.
We wanted to make this family friendly, so each subscription will include up to five users in the same household.
