God made our brains so they are very efficient. To recognize a penny you don’t need to remember every detail because a real penny is going to always look pretty much the same.

You just need to quickly see that it is a coin not a token from Chucky Cheese or a washer from a hardware store.

After you realize it is a coin the only thing you need to recognize is that it is a penny not a quarter, dime or nickel. From the color, size and picture you can do that without paying attention to the details too much.

But, when the details are mixed up like they are here, and there are a lot of similar coins with slight variations it becomes much harder. So which one is the real penny?

The real penny is: click to show

Knowing how our brain works helps us to see why it is so important to study God’s Word. When we know His Word we can make the right choices (like choosing a penny out of our pocket) without having to stop and think about it.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Philippians 4:8 (NIV)

Forgiveness is an important part of our Christian life. But what does it mean?

What is real forgiveness? Can forgive me be more than just lyrics to a song?

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This dot to dot (connect the dots) puzzle is a lot of fun.

You can print the puzzle. It is great for use in Sunday school, Bible class, Vacation Bible School or just for free kid fun.

Solomon is anointed and becomes King Solomon (after his father King David).

Don’t just do the puzzle but do some Bible study about King Solomon in the Old Testament.

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Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 1:39 (NIV)

One of the most important factors in your happiness is your ability to make friends. Some people are naturally shy and have a problem reaching out to others no matter how desperately they want to. Other people have trouble connecting with kids their age because they feel like they’re different. Some people have problems that interfere with their social skills. Whatever the reason a person is having problems associating with others, here are some ideas that can help. These are 5 ways you can help yourself and others make friends:

~~ 1. Get Involved

Whatever you enjoy doing find a group to do it with. If you like acting, art or athletics there are organized groups that will not only let you enjoy the activity but will also let you meet people who share your interest.

If you enjoy playing sports like soccer or baseball, join a team. If you feel unsure about your sports skills, take time to practice batting, kicking, pitching and catching- whatever skills are involved in the sport. You don’t have to be the best. Just do your best.

Do the same thing if your interests are chess or computers, for example.

If you haven’t decided on a specific interest yet, you might enjoy becoming a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout. Organizations such as these offer children a wide variety of activities they can enjoy.

~~ 2. Learn Some Common Social Rules

If you treat others with respect you will naturally attract more friends and have more meaningful relationships in school and at church. To help make friends, learn the common social rules. The “golden rule” is “Treat others like you want them to treat you.” This means, no hitting, stealing, cheating, lying, yelling or being mean in any way. Share your stuff and try to be nice so other people will want to be your friend.

~~ 3. Let Your Parents Get Involved

Another way you can make friends is to let your parents get involved with school and church. Whenever your parents volunteer with PTA, with the church youth group, as Sunday school teachers, soccer coaches or other things you’re involved with they’ll be able to meet your friends and your friends’ parents. This will make your family the center of the fun. Other kids will get to know you and your parents. Other mom and dads are going to want their kids to be around you if your parents are super involved.

~~ 4. Have Your Whole Family Communicate With Other Parents

This will make you over-the-top popular.

You may be embarrassed by your parents, everyone is sometimes. But, if other parents get to know you and your parents know your friends you will be much better off because you will get to hang out a lot more. It will help you make friends. It will also let your parents meet the the other kids parents.

Here’s an idea, tell your mom or dad who you want to be friends with in school or at church. Then, ask your parents to call some of your friends’ parents to invite them and their children over.

~~ 5. Communicate by Talking and Listening

Being a friend means more than just doing fun stuff. It means helping others. If you don’t have two-way communication with your friends, then you can’t help them. Talk to them about any problems they’re having and offer to help them if you can. Be careful because your friend may not want or need your help right then, but it is important to be willing to help and to let your friend know you want to do whatever you can to help.

Don’t try to jump in and solve your friend’s problems for them. Part of growing up is learning how to deal with different situations, no matter how difficult they may be.

~~ 6 Bonus Idea — PRAY for Your Friends

You might not know everything that is going on in a person’s life but you can pray for them anyway.

This missile is scared to follow his exploding command.

When you play games do you get scared from just free online games like Missile Command? Probably not. We know that they are just fun video games.

But there are things in life that can be scary. You know what?…when things scare me there is only one thing that helps me get by….

It is my faith in God. He will never fail me. So I trust him, and I do get frightened a little sometimes but then I remind myself that God is in charge and is taking care of me. I

In fact he is greater than ANYTHING in the world.

In Him,

Professor QB

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 4:4 (NIV)

Psalms

Take a Bible with the Old and New Testament. Lay it on a table and try to open right in the middle of the pages. You will probably open it to the book of Psalms. So what is this book where the words are laid out funny, it says everything twice and always talks about sheep and cups “runneth overing”?




Song Book, Prayer Book and More


Have you ever noticed how music is not just something you hear, it is something you feel? Christmas time “feels” like Christmas partly because of Christmas carols. A scary movie has scary music to make you afraid. When you sing at church, don’t you think about God more?

Well, the Bible book of Psalms is a song book with 150 special songs for ancient Israelites. The book talks about how they felt when they were happy, when they were very sad, when the were upset because the bad guys seemed to be winning and how they prayed to God by themselves and when they worshipped God together.

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Are you watching the Olympics? I am watching with my family. But did you know that the Apostle Paul writes about seeing competitions like the Olympics over 2000 years ago?

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Make Friends–Even on the very first day

School starts (in the United States) in just a few weeks for most kids.

Do you ever feel alone on the first day of school and want someone to talk to?

We will show you how to get friends on the first day and keep them too!

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Covenant is an important Bible word.

Listen to Patrick and Professor QB talk about this big, fat Bible word.

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The U.S. Fire Administration for Kids

Each year in the United States an estimated 2,800 children age 14 or younger are injured and 850 killed in residential fires. Of these children, over 40 percent are under the age of five, 70 percent are under the age of 10. Because the majority of fire casualties occur in children under the age of 10, the U.S. Fire Administration for Kids is targeted towards that age group. And we want to help them in their goal of preventing injuries and death to children due to fire.

ChurchFun.com wants to help by presenting their great information here for our readers.

The goals of U.S. Fire Administration Kids are to:

1. Increase the level of individual concern and awareness of children’s vulnerability to fire.
2. Educate and inform the U.S. population about how personal responsibility and action is key to preventing fires and fire-related casualties.
3. Provide a timely, coordinated and easy-to-access source of information about how individuals can prevent fires and fire-related casualties.

This post will give you short lessons about fire escape planning, smoke alarms and general home fire safety. It is recommended that an adult guide children through the lessons.

Each lesson is followed by a brief five-question quiz to test children’s knowledge of the subject after they have worked through the lesson.

Finally, through a 10-question quiz, children will have the opportunity to earn a Jr. Fire Marshal certificate signed by the Assistant Administrator, U.S. Fire Administration.

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