Benjamin Wilcox

Psalms Part 1 This week we’ll be studying the first of three lessons from the Book of Psalms. And, a little something about teaching the Psalms. It’s a little different, and it’s a little challenging to teach. It’s a book unlike any other in the Old Testament and since it’s so different, I find it often requires a different approach. Unlike all the books we’ve studied so far, Psalms is not a book of stories, it’s not a book of sermons, it’s not a book of laws or genealogies. It’s a book of...

Hello fellow teachers! This is Ben Wilcox and welcome to this supplemental teaching activities video. This week, we’re beginning our study of the Book of Psalms. And before we get into the actual lesson ideas, I need to explain why I’m going to approach these next three weeks a little differently than usual. Come, Follow Me devotes three full weeks to Psalms this year. And honestly, I’ve gone back and forth on the best way to handle that. Psalms is a beautiful and important book, but it...

TEACHING ACTIVITIES This week is structured a little differently than most Teaching with Power weeks. Job is one sustained story and one extended examination of suffering, faith, and trust in God, so dividing it into three unrelated lessons would either create a lot of repetition or leave important parts of the story out. Instead, I’ll begin with one shared introduction to Job and then give you three different lesson emphases. The first examines whether our faith depends on immediate...