Sunday Spotlight is where we share our Calvary Kids Bible lesson topic each week for kids of all ages. Use this lesson for a Family Night devotion or a preview/review time to talk about what your children are learning at Calvary on Sundays in God’s Word.

These lessons correspond to the Big Picture Cards your child receives each week — great to collect and review together! We post a new lesson here every Wednesday.

 

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Sunday, November 8

Lesson Title: Jesus Raised a Widow’s Son

Bible Passage: Luke 7

Key Passage: Jeremiah 29:12

Big Picture Question:  What is prayer? Prayer is talking with God to praise Him, ask Him for help, and confess our sins.

Lesson Summary

Jesus had only just finished healing the centurion’s servant in Luke 7:1-10 when He came upon the funeral procession of a widow’s only son. Jesus didn’t merely feel sorry for the grieving widow; He demonstrated His compassion by publicly raising her son from the dead. In this passage, we witness the truth that only Jesus has the authority to restore the dead back to life. 
  
The timing in which Jesus entered the woman’s life is interesting as it appears that He came on the scene just a little too late. Perhaps the woman’s son had been sick or had received a mortal wound from an accident. Either way, his time for hanging on to life had passed, and people were now carrying the son’s dead body through the streets on the way to the grave. Despite this tragedy, Jesus told the woman not to weep. 
  
This wasn’t because He lacked emotion; Scripture tells us Jesus is the man of sorrows acquainted with our grief, suffering, and sickness (Isaiah 53:3). No, Jesus understood the depths of the woman’s despair, and He embodied the greatest hope in her time of need. The widow no longer needed to cry because Jesus would soon resurrect her son—a precursor to His promise to one day wipe away all tears and bring an end to suffering and death. 
  
This week, lead your children to see that Jesus offers the gift of eternal, resurrected life to anyone who believes Him. Just as the widow’s son was physically dead but raised to life, Christ will raise all who call on Him to immediate, new spiritual life and resurrected physical life at His return.

 
Christ Connection

This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.

• Babies & Toddlers: Jesus has power over death. When we trust in Jesus, He makes us alive with God forever.
   
• Younger Preschool: Jesus is stronger than death. He died and came back to life. When we trust in Jesus, we will live with God forever.
   
• Older Preschool: Jesus has power over death. After Jesus died on the cross, He rose from the dead. When people repent and trust in Jesus, He makes them alive with God forever.
   
• Kids: Jesus has the power to bring the dead to life. We are all dead in our sins, but Jesus will give us new life in Him if we repent and trust in His life, death, and resurrection.

Big Picture Question & Answer

This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.

• Preschool: What is prayer? Prayer is talking with God.
   
• Kids: What is prayer? Prayer is talking with God to praise Him, ask Him for help, and confess our sins.

Key Passage

Jeremiah 29:12  This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.

• Babies & Toddlers: Call on me and pray, and I will listen. Jeremiah 29:12
   
• Younger Preschool: You will call to me and pray, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12
   
• Older Preschool: Call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12
   
• Kids: You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12–13

Next week: Jesus Was Anointed (Luke 7)

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