The Sunday School Zone Blog

The Sunday School Zone Blog contains insights on children’s spiritual formation as well as tips, ideas, and suggestions to help Christian parents and leaders as they work with kids of all abilities (and even adults with special needs) at home, church, and school. If you would like to contribute to the blog, please visit our Writer Inquiries page and then send us an explanatory email at [email protected] describing the kind of writing you’d like to do. We welcome those who have something of substance to say to Christian parents and teachers of children. You already know that Sunday School Zone offers tons of free, printable Bible activities for kids. If you think you’d like to contribute, please read more…

Attachments and Identity

In the article on Identity and Self, we saw that the Self is weighing information that is coming in through the child’s senses. Parents and teachers can influence how the baby processes this information by forming meaningful attachments with the child. Attachments are happening in young children at two levels; a neurological level, and a…

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Identity and the Self

Somewhere in the early stages of life, we begin to become aware of ourselves as distinct. This awareness fosters self-reflection; the ability to think about ourselves in the third person. Self-reflection is an important and healthy skill for all people. It gives us the capacity to carry on conversations with ourselves and actually form an…

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Identity, Relationships, and Distinction

In addition to our nature as beings created in the image of God, every human being exists within a complex matrix of relationships. This is true from the moment of conception. Even prior to birth, a child is in a relationship with itself, its mother, its mother’s body and the “outside world” that is able…

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Identity and the God of the Bible

It is clear from Genesis 1 that people are created in the image of God. More specifically, people are made in the image of the God of the Bible who’s name we later learn is Yahweh. This God is not one of many gods. He is the Creator of the universe and all people in…

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Shaping Identity In the Local Church

A local church has the ability to influence an individual’s personal identity through its discipleship ministry. How this happens is a complex and ongoing process. The degree to which an individual is associated with a church, the time a church has with the individual, and other factors will impact just how influential a church may…

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Identity Runs Deep

The fact that we are more than we think (see prior article) is an important principle that will be repeated and underscored in other places in this series of articles. There are aspects of our identity that are determined by reality and what God says about us; not by our opinions, desires, behavior, and histories.…

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We Are More Than We Think

How we each perceive our own identities is shaped by a variety of important factors. It’s important to note, however, that our actual identity is more than or different from our perception of our identity. We are more than we think. Reality defines identity more than our individual perceptions. Just because I perceive that I…

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Helping People Develop a Biblical Identity

Much can be said (and has been said) about how any given individual develops his or her own particular identity. It is a complex process that takes place through life and continues until we die. It is not our intent to oversimplify this process or suggest that identity development can be reduced to a simplistic…

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Rock the Cradle… Rule the World!

William Ross Wallace was a 19th Century American poet who wrote The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and understood what the contemporary church has too often forgotten… “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” It is a truth grounded in virtually every page of Scripture… Rock the cradle… rule…

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