Devotional techniques

During the telling of a biblical story, the children are each given a drink that suits them. This allows them to experience the story and immerse themselves in the feelings of the characters.

If glycerine is added to potassium permanganate, it ignites spontaneously after a while. Numerous biblical passages with fire can be illustrated with this.

If potassium nitrate solution is used to paint something onto the tissue paper and the tissue paper is dried, the letters or symbols slowly burn from the center to the edge after lighting. In this way, hidden things can be made visible.

When steel wool is between the poles of a battery, it starts to burn. This can be used to illustrate many biblical passages where fire occurs.

Strong magnets offer many possibilities for interesting effects such as displaying magnetic fields, illustrating the invisible power of God, showing attraction/repulsion and much more.

If pepper is sprinkled on the water, it remains on the surface. If liquid soap is added, it is pushed to the edge, further added pepper sinks. This can be used to illustrate deliverance from sin or Peter sinking.

A PET bottle is filled with hot water, emptied and quickly screwed shut. It soon contracts, although no external force is visible. The experiment can illustrate the invisible power of God.

A piece of copper turns black when it glows in the flame. If the hot black piece of copper is immersed in alcohol, it becomes copper-colored again. This can be used to illustrate the confession of sins and the cleansing of guilt.

A juice made from red cabbage has a completely different color in an alkaline and acidic environment. This shows how the smallest influences can have a big effect and how creative God is in creation.

If a balloon is filled with air and held over a flame, it will burst immediately. If you fill it with water, it will survive the flame unscathed. The experiment serves to illustrate various passages from the Bible.

In the attached file you will find the most important points to evaluate a devotion / input, based on the HALMA system. On the second page you will find key points for evaluating an afternoon program. Always remember in the team - give each other feedback! Because five positive ones weigh just as much as one negative one.

Devotional concept on the theme of cartoon characters.

Devotional ideas for 1 semester à 8 devotions

A great way to act out Bible stories or other stories in a devotional is with Playmobil.

In this article I give you some tips and ideas.

A Raben-Vertüferli from a clothespin.

Fitting e.g. to the story of Elijah and the ravens or to the main message: God cares for you.

Or to the Bible verse 1 Peter 5:7

The Vertüüferli is used as a magnetic note holder.

A little craft to a devotion with the possible topics:

• Prayer
• Psalm 50:50 or Psalm 4:4
• "God hears you"
• "You can always talk to God"

A great little bag for devotions on a wide variety of topics.

You can also attach a hidden message that appears when you open the clothespin.

A Vertüüferli to your devotion, for example, on the topics of "salvation" or "Jesus saves"

From salt dough you can make great tablets of the law. First, they look very real and second, Moses can break them in his anger. (Unfortunately, ours were broken before a photo was taken...)

Later, Moses had to write down the laws himself. You might as well make some as vertüferli with the Jungschärlern.

Why do we tell?

It is important to us to awaken and develop the children's ability to experience.

Whether in teen or youth ministry, no leader wants to bore his or her participants with his or her devotions. Now to have exciting and fruitful devotions, you don't have to water down God's Word or talk about worldly things. It is simply a matter of interpreting the Bible.
The devotional principle "HEY,YOU SEE SO" can be a great help to us as leaders to captivate the participants with our devotions.

This devotional principle comes from the book: Ten Goals of Youth Ministry. p.98.

Basic Course 1 - 4 by Peter Blaser, instructions for 8 days of quiet time with texts from the Epistle of Peter

Helps clarify Bible stories for children's worship, school, and home.

Discover God's plan!

Get to know the course of the Bible from Creation to Revelation and create your own Bible panorama. Look at striking points in history and use a particularly important point for devotion.

A scroll, was used before there were books, newspapers or a PC. Many children do not know what a scroll looked like or how it was used. During the devotion this scroll can be unrolled and read out. Afterwards, each child can make such a scroll and for each new story there is a new picture in each hour, until the story, for example, of Joseph is finished.

Prayer class for each day of a week with theme:

"BEING THE SERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST"

To do this, we look at the life of Gehazi, the servant of Elisha

A sheet of paper is cut through with a straight cut, resulting in several sections which can be used for a devotion.