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I have created a Power Point presentation that follows a version of The Wordless Book, sometimes known as the Colors of Salvation, or the Salvation Colors. This presentation is technically not “wordless” because I put the Scripture references in there. But that’s all. Each color is shown by a colored circle, then the corresponding Scripture reference, and then a purple cross at the end (to represent the royalty of Christ, the King of Kings).
I am using this for an Upward presentation I am doing this Sunday night. I hope you can make good use of it as well. Please freely use this for your own ministry and share it as you like, just don’t go selling it 🙂
Here are two versions of the presentation, one PDF and one Power Point
10. You can have an entire conversation with your spouse while spelling out all the key words.
9. Your trips to Lowe’s or the grocery store always begin with a choice between red race car cart or blue race car cart.
8. Your diaper-changing skills have immensely improved over the past two years: from 2-minute/5 wipe changes to 10-second/1 wipe changes.
7. You now fully understand why your mother saved all those old Sesame Street books.
6. Multi-colored-play-things seem to reproduce at infestation levels in every room of your house.
5. Your parents and in-laws suddenly visit you way more frequently than they ever had a few years ago – and yet for some reason you are invisible to them.
4. You never knew you could accomplish so much between the hours of 2pm and 5pm.
3. You can recite the book Good Night, Moon by memory – backwards.
2. Your favorite part of flying with your family is experiencing the feeling of boarding the plane before all the rich executives board first class.
1. You are reminded daily of the wonders of the universe that we as adults have come to no longer appreciate – like the moon, ladybugs, the sound of the choo-choo train, and a successfully deposited poop.
Despite the current weather conditions around here (SNOW, SNOW, SNOW), it is actually Easter week. I can’t remember the last time there was snow on Palm Sunday in Virginia (or any other state I’ve lived in for that matter).
While snow may be a unique way to kick off Easter week, I found a more Biblical way to kick it of – in the Bible of all places!
Kick off Easter week with children. And I don’t mean just doing a traditional Easter egg hunt, which is nice and all. I mean children singing praise to God.
You see, when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey in what is now known as “The Triumphal Entry”, people waved palm branches (representing victory as well as eternal life). This is the event that Christians traditionally celebrate to start Easter week. He then ransacked the commerce mall that had been set up in the temple, claiming that the temple was a house of prayer, not of thieves (Matthew 21:1-12).
The next thing that happens caught my attention as I was reading it this morning (Matthew 21:14-16):
“14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise’?”
Wow. The ones who were shouting praise to Jesus in the temple were children. And Jesus stuck up for them by saying that this is what God had promised (in Psalm 8:2).
This is why I love being a minister to children. They have so much energy and joy that they actually minister to me. They are the real “worship leaders” in the church. They are the ones who teach us how to worship and praise God: The innocence of their hearts. The purity of their faith. The joy of their song. The sincerity of their praise.
Start off Easter week by singing and praying with a child out there. Ask them to pray for you. Ask them to lead you in a song of worship. They are, after all, ordained to do so by God!
