Benjamin Wilcox

TEACHING ACTIVITIES Moses 7   LESSON #1 Building a People, Not a Place (Moses 7:1-27)   TRUTH: Zion is not a place first; it is a blessed people, built by unity, righteousness, and compassion.   FIRE IN THE BONES: I get a fire in the bones when I realize that this is a chance to inspire in my students a builder’s mentality. In the restored Church of Jesus Christ we are endeavoring to create a covenant community. So this lesson is a kind of invitation to become part of something exciting,...

NOTE: And this is an interesting week because we basically only have one chapter to study. I really don’t do anything with Genesis 5 since it gives us so little compared to what Moses 6 gives us. Now, because of that, I always like to include a lesson from last week’s chapters this week, an additional lesson from a short 5 verse story from Moses 5. There was so much we had to look at last week that I felt this particular lesson would fit better into this weeks’ time frame. And it contains a...

Teaching Activities   LESSON #1 The Greatest Magician: Avoiding the Adversary’s Tricks and Traps (Moses 4)   TRUTH: Satan deceives through lies, shifted focus, and rebellion, but God’s truth helps me see through his tricks.   FIRE IN THE BONES: The relevance of this lesson is what gives me a fire in the bones for teaching it. The temptations described here are not distant or abstract. We’ve all felt them. The story of Adam and Eve is the human story, and we’re meant to recognize ourselves in...