Benjamin Wilcox

TEACHING ACTIVITIES   LESSON #1 AGAINST HOPE, BELIEVE IN HOPE-THE ENDURANCE TEST (Genesis 12-21)   TRUTH: If I continue to trust God with hope when His promises seem delayed, then He will fulfill them in His time and way.   FIRE IN THE BONES: Now this lesson is going to be incredibly relevant to almost everyone because this is how God often works with his children while in mortality. We are all going to have endurance tests of faith in life. In fact, many of your students are probably quietly...

TEACHING ACTIVITIES   LESSON #1 THIS PROMISE IS YOURS ALSO (ABRAHAM 1-2)   TRUTH: God has great blessings and promises for the seed of Abraham—but they come with a sacred responsibility to bless the world without becoming like it.   FIRE IN THE BONES: A fire in the bones gets sparked in my heart for this lesson as I consider how fundamental the Abrahamic covenant is in understanding who the children of Israel are in the Old and New Testaments, and who WE are as part of God’s chosen people in...

Teaching Activities   LESSON #1 DON’T MISS THE BOAT (Genesis 6-7, Moses 8)   TRUTH: If we hearken to God, then He will provide a way for us and our families to rise above a corrupt world.   FIRE IN THE BONES: I find great relevance in this very, very ancient story. I’m sure that many of our students feel concern about trying to raise faithful families in a loud, confusing, and spiritually corrosive world.  Noah lived in a world like that, but God helped him to escape. Help your students to...