Hmmmm...so if asked I would tell anyone that Easter is the most important "holiday" of the year, so why is it that until an hour ago I had given no thought to how we would prepare Charlie and observe the most important miracle in history?
Thankfully, Childrens' Church did an an excellent job of covering Palm Sunday yesterday morning, so I'm not really behind yet.
Fully aware of my limited crafty abilities and short time frame, I decided to just go through the events of the week day by day and do a small activity with each.
So...today we are covering Jesus' removal of the money changers from the temple, with a handy-dandy coloring sheet I found online. (http://www.biblewise.com/images/kids_korner/fun_games/2004/april/colorbook.pdf)
Thankfully at four years old, Charlie's expectations are not too high...we'll see if I get more creative as the week moves on...
And on the next day, when they had departed from Bethany, He became hungry. And seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And He answered and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" And His disciples were listening.
And they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to cast out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves; and He would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. And He began to teach and say to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' den."
And the chief prests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for all the multitude was astonished at His teaching.
And when evening came, they would go out of the city.
Mark 11:11-19
Other References
Isaiah 56:7
Jeremiah 7:11
Matthew 21:12-19
Luke 19:45-48
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