Week 800 · about 45 minutes
Jeremiah 19
Jeremiah 19 · Memory verse Jeremiah 19:1
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Jeremiah 19), the matching word search and answer key (Jeremiah 19 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a ribbon
Hold a ribbon. Read Jeremiah 19 in about four minutes, stopping at Jeremiah 19:1: “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Jeremiah 19?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Jeremiah 19 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;” 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, “I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.” Jeremiah 19 opens with these words: “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;” The line to keep is Jeremiah 19:1: “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;” Carry the word “thus” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Jeremiah 19:1: “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Jeremiah 19? Then try this: Read “Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of…” 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 Jeremiah 19. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Jeremiah 19:1. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Jeremiah 19 and write Jeremiah 19:1 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Jeremiah 19:1
“Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Jeremiah 19. Help us remember Jeremiah 19:1 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.