A free 20-week Bible curriculum: Creation to New Creation

Kids

• God made everything, and he called it good.
• We can trust the good God who made us and the world.

Youth

• See creation as both gift and calling — image-bearers are made to tend and keep what God made.
• Name the first lie: that God's word is meant to limit life rather than give it.

Adults

• Read Eden as the place where heaven and earth overlap, and the Fall as a de-creating mistrust.
• Notice grace already moving in the judgment — the promise planted inside the unraveling.

Kids

• When we feel angry, we can still choose to do what is right.
• God cares about how we treat the people closest to us.

Youth

• Sin "crouches at the door" — the question is whether we rule it or it rules us.
• Worship and our relationships are where the heart really shows.

Adults

• Trace the Fall's mistrust spreading outward into worship and the first violence.
• See the protective mark on Cain as mercy operating inside judgment.

Kids

• God was grieved by sin, but he rescued Noah and his family.
• The rainbow is a sign of a promise God keeps.

Youth

• When everything feels like it is ending, "God remembered Noah" — the hinge from judgment to rescue.
• Trust that God remembers his people in the flood, not only after it.

Adults

• See the flood as de-creation and a rehearsal of new creation (dry land, "be fruitful").
• The Noahic covenant reaches every living creature — the most universal covenant in Scripture.

Kids

• Building big things to show off does not make us great.
• God makes us great his own way, for the good of others.

Youth

• Ambition aimed away from God scatters us; aimed toward God and neighbor it blesses.
• Tell the difference between grasping for a name and receiving one as a gift.

Adults

• See Babel's scattering not as abandonment but as the condition Pentecost will one day heal.
• Connect the scattered nations of Genesis 11 to the blessing of all families promised in Genesis 12.

Kids

• God promised to bless Abraham, and through him to bless the whole world.
• We can trust God even when we cannot see the whole plan.

Youth

• Faith trusts a faithful God even when the destination is still hidden.
• Abraham builds an altar to receive a promise; Babel built a tower to seize a name.

Adults

• Election is for blessing flowing outward — chosen so that all families are blessed.
• Read the call as pure initiative and gift, not a reward for Abraham's worth.

Kids

• God was with Joseph even when things were hard.
• God can bring good even out of what others meant for harm.

Youth

• The pit and the prison were the road, not the ditch — God was at work the whole time.
• Keep integrity through the long wait, before the outcome is visible.

Adults

• Hold evil intent and redemptive intent together without flattening either.
• Read providence backward: what looked like the end was the means of rescue for many.

Kids

• God saw that his people were hurting, and he sent Moses to help.
• God promises to go with the ones he sends.

Youth

• The better question is not "who am I?" but "who is sending me?"
• God answers Moses' fear not with a pep talk but with a promise: "I will be with you."

Adults

• The covenant Name "I AM" is a promise of presence, not a riddle to solve.
• See mission flowing out of God's self-revelation — he sees, he hears, he comes down, he sends.

Kids

• God kept his people safe; the lamb's blood was a sign of rescue.
• God is the one who saves his people.

Youth

• The plagues confront the false gods of Egypt — God alone is Lord.
• Rescue comes through a substitute and a sign, not by our own strength.

Adults

• See the Passover planting the lamb-and-blood pattern fulfilled in Christ our Passover.
• Notice that God provides the means of rescue and tells his people to trust it.

Kids

• God made a dry path right through the sea.
• We can be still and trust God to save us.

Youth

• "The LORD will fight for you" — some deliverance we receive by trust, not effort.
• Fear at the edge of the sea is met by God's action, not our adequacy.

Adults

• Hear the crossing echo Genesis 1 — God divides the waters to bring forth dry land.
• Trace the pattern blooming in Christian baptism and the song of Revelation 15.

Kids

• God gave good rules to people he had already rescued.
• God gives rules because he loves us, like a good parent.

Youth

• The commandments come after rescue — they are response, not a way to earn it.
• The golden calf and Moses' intercession show the covenant standing by grace.

Adults

• Receive covenant identity — "a kingdom of priests" — as gift before demand.
• Hold law and grace together: obedience is the shape of gratitude, not the currency of acceptance.

Kids

• God wanted to live close to his people.
• God still wants to be near us.

Youth

• The tabernacle is about presence — God dwelling among us, not us climbing up to him.
• God gives the pattern; worship is meeting the God who came near.

Adults

• See the tabernacle as a portable Eden — the overlap of heaven and earth restored in part.
• Follow the dwelling-with-humans pattern blooming at John 1:14 and Revelation 21:3.

Kids

• Ruth came from far away, and God welcomed her into his family.
• God loves people from every place, not just one.

Youth

• Belonging to God's people is about taking hold of him in faith and loyalty, not about where you were born.
• God shelters the outsider who comes to him for refuge, "under his wings."

Adults

• Trace hesed — loyal, covenant kindness — from Ruth to Boaz to the LORD, and see the foreigner welcomed, redeemed, and brought home.
• See the Moabite grafted into the line of David and named in the genealogy of Jesus (Ruth 4:17; Matt 1:5); the church’s pastors and teachers lead deeper into how the nations are gathered in.

Kids

• David trusted God, not his own size.
• God is bigger than any giant we face.

Youth

• Courage comes from whose name you stand in, not from your own strength.
• Name the giants you face — and whose name you face them in.

Adults

• See "the battle is the LORD's" as God's recurring pattern of the small defeating the great.
• Trace that pattern to its full bloom at the cross (1 Corinthians 1:25).

Kids

• God came to live close to his people in the temple Solomon built.
• God is so big that not even heaven can hold him — he is greater than any house.

Youth

• The temple is a meeting-place where God puts his Name — not a box that holds God or a guarantee he must bless.
• God's presence is a gift, kept by trusting and following him, not something a building secures for us.

Adults

• Hold immanence and transcendence together: the glory truly fills the house, yet heaven cannot contain him — presence is gift, not leverage.
• Receive the Davidic covenant ("the throne of his kingdom forever," 2 Sam 7:13) and trace the temple-presence thread toward Christ the true Temple; the church’s pastors and teachers lead deeper into how it is fulfilled.

Kids

• God can bring his people home, even when everything looks lost.
• God’s breath gives life — the dry bones stood up alive.

Youth

• Lament is honest faith: it names the loss without giving up hope.
• Only God can answer "Can these bones live?" — and his answer is to put his Spirit in his people.

Adults

• Hold the layered promise together — Israel restored, the dead raised, the Spirit poured out — without forcing one reading over the rest.
• Trace the indwelling Presence ("my dwelling place will be with them," 37:27) toward Pentecost and the New Creation; the church’s pastors and teachers lead deeper into how Israel and the church relate.

Kids

• Jesus the Savior was born — God kept his biggest promise.
• God came near to us as a tiny baby.

Youth

• God's greatness arrives through humility — a feeding-trough, not a palace.
• See the promises gathering: the child is the long-awaited rescue.

Adults

• Watch the seed of Genesis 3:15, the son of Abraham, and the son of David converge in one child.
• God enters through the small door, not the throne room — the pattern of the whole story.

Kids

• Jesus teaches us how the people of his kingdom live and love.
• God blesses the humble, not the proud.

Youth

• The Beatitudes describe the kingdom community — they are not an achievement checklist.
• Hear what the Sermon asks of the heart, not just the hands.

Adults

• Read kingdom ethics as a description of the community Jesus is forming.
• Weigh the two foundations — hearing and doing — as the Sermon's closing test.

Kids

• Jesus died on the cross and came back to life on the third day.
• Jesus loves us so much that he gave his life for us.

Youth

• "It is finished" means the work is done — a shout of completion, not a sigh of defeat.
• The empty tomb is the answer to the lie that death always wins.

Adults

• See the Passover lamb, the smitten rock, the torn veil, and the Magi’s myrrh all converge at the cross.
• Hold the cross and the empty tomb together as one gospel — Christ died for us, and rose; the church’s pastors lead deeper into how it saves.

Kids

• God's Spirit helped the friends of Jesus tell everyone the good news.
• The good news is for people of every language.

Youth

• At Pentecost diversity is not erased but filled — the Spirit gathers what pride scattered.
• The same Spirit sends ordinary people to speak good news.

Adults

• See Abraham's "all families blessed" take visible shape in a crowd from every nation.
• Babel is reversed not by undoing the many tongues but by the Spirit filling them.

Kids

• One day God will make everything new.
• God will live with his people forever.

Youth

• The whole story has been heading here — heaven comes down to dwell with us.
• The hope of New Creation reshapes how we live now.

Adults

• See the Eden seed become the Tree of Life at the centre of the New Jerusalem.
• Read New Creation as the consummation of the dwelling-with-us arc that began in the Garden.