Bible Concepts

Use these free printables to help children learn important Bible concepts. Many of these concepts seem difficult to grasp at first, but using fun, fully illustrated printables can help children better understand these ideas.

Where Is Your Faith?

In Luke 8:22-25 (see also Matt. 8:23-27; Mark 4:35-41), Jesus was crossing the Sea of Galilee with His disciples. During the trip, Jesus fell asleep in the boat. A fierce windstorm arose, causing waves to crash over the boat. Even as the boat was being tossed and overwhelmed by the waves, Jesus continued sleeping. Panicked,…

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Wanted to Pass By (Mark 6:48)

After Jesus miraculously fed the crowd that included 5,000 men, “He made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd” (Mark 6:45). He told them good-bye and then spent some time in prayer. When evening arrived, Jesus was alone on the…

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It Is I

When Jesus’ disciples “saw Him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw Him and were terrified. Immediately He spoke with them and said, ‘Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid’” (Mark 6:50; see also Matthew 14:27; John 6:20). The commands to have courage and…

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Tilitha Koum (Mark 5:41)

In their Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke included accounts of Jesus’ raising Jairus’s daughter from the dead. In Matthew, we have no report of Jesus saying anything to the girl: He “went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up” (9:25). Luke wrote that “He took her by the hand and…

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Compassion of Jesus

As Jesus “stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then He began to teach them many things.” So wrote Mark in his account of Jesus’ feeding of the crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children (Mark 6:34; vv. 30-44 for the…

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God’s Timetable

After Moses received God’s command to confront Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go, Moses obeyed God. Pharaoh spurned Moses, however, and spurned God as well: “Who is Yahweh that I should obey Him by letting Israel go? I do not know anything about Yahweh, and besides, I will not let Israel go”…

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Faith: What We Learn About it from Abraham

Why is Abraham remembered as a man of great faith in God? The writer of Hebrews mentioned several specific reasons in Hebrews 11. He highlighted Abraham’s faith in verses 8-10, stating that faith compelled the patriarch to obey the Lord. This meant leaving his homeland, traveling to a land previously unfamiliar to him, and living…

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Favor

In the Holman Christian Standard Bible, Genesis states, “When the LORD saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time, the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Then the…

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Day

Is the “day” referred to in Genesis 1 a 24-hour day, or was it longer, even possibly millions of years? This question often arises with regard to Genesis 1 because of a perceived conflict between the biblical account and modern science. We will say more about science in a few moments, but for now, let’s…

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