Week 562 · about 45 minutes
Psalms 48
Psalms 48 · Memory verse Psalms 48:9
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Psalms 48), the matching word search and answer key (Psalms 48 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read Psalms 48 in about four minutes, stopping at Psalms 48:9: “We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Psalms 48?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Psalms 48 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.” Psalms 48 opens with these words: “Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.” The line to keep is Psalms 48:9: “We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.” Carry the word “thought” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Psalms 48:9: “We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Psalms 48? Then try this: Read “We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Psalms 48. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Psalms 48:9. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Psalms 48 and write Psalms 48:9 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Psalms 48:9
“We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Psalms 48. Help us remember Psalms 48:9 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.