We’ve done the planning & prep for you.
Our lessons take the pressure off you so you can enjoy your role in children’s ministry even more. Material is convenient, flexible, and seamlessly delivered to you through an online experience, which you pass on to your kids in person.
Here’s how it works
Our Bible-focused lessons are flexible and adaptable, with options for kids from Kindy to Year 6. Lessons are insightful and educational as they cover a Bible story, character, or theme in a fun, engaging, and age-appropriate way. Each lesson comes with suggestions for music (singing and dancing), craft, games, and more for an interactive Bible lesson everyone can enjoy.
Just like a school curriculum, Living Words content builds on previous material, not only from week-to-week, but also year-to-year. This means content flows in a logical order, and concepts are revisited over the years to help children develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the Christian faith. It also allows us to come back to concepts in a new way as children grow in maturity, life experience, and have a greater capacity for understanding.
You can purchase individual lessons as a once off, or bundle lessons so you have more content up your sleeve. We recommend purchasing content for the year so you can benefit from that nice logical content flow we mentioned earlier. This is also more economical, not to mention less stressful when it comes to lesson planning.
However, you might like to purchase one or two stand alone lessons if you’d like to cover a particular topic within your ministry.
That’s why we’re here. Our Biblical lessons are designed to make your role easier, more enjoyable, and provide clear guidance so you feel confident and assured every Sunday.
Once you’ve made a purchase, you’ll receive a link to our online content via email. This will take you to an interactive platform called Sway. Sway is really easy to use and gives you access to a slideshow, as well as options to print PDFs and activity sheets.
There’s very little planning that needs to be done by you; it’s more about looking over the material to make sure you’re confident and familiar with the content as well as any accompanying activities. Lessons can be delivered via a screen or you can print the content for your kids.
Let’s recap
Select the lessons you’d like to buy and then choose how you’d like to purchase (either individual lessons or bundled content). Once you buy a lesson, it’s yours for life.
You’ll receive an email with a private link to your purchased lessons. Each week, you can jump on and familiarise yourself with the content, as well as any accompanying activities.
Confidently deliver your lesson! Watch kids be engaged, inspired, and encouraged as they learn about Jesus through age-appropriate theology.
TERM 1 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s Old Words,
The Stories | Topic | Creation | The Fall | Covenant with Abraham | The Great King’s mighty act | The Law | Into the land | Kings | Kings | Exile | After exile |
Reference | Genesis 1.26-2.15 | Genesis 11.1-12.4 | Genesis 12.1-13.18 | Exodus 2.23-4.9 | Exodus 19.1-20.21 | Numbers 22.1–35 | 1 Samuel 17.1-53 | 1 Kings 18.1-40 | 2 Chron 36.11-23 | Daniel 3 | |
Title | Ruling under the Great King | How do you get a great name? | The Great King’s promise | The Great King’s messenger | The mountain of the Great King | Can a blessed people be cursed? | The Great King of Israel
Part 1 David, Israel’s faithful king | The Great King of Israel
Part 2 The Great King above all gods | Can the Great King break
his promises? | King of kings |
TERM 2 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s Old Words,
The Wise Words | Topic | Psalms | Psalms | Psalms | Wisdom books | Wisdom books | Wisdom books | Prophets (Major) | Prophets (Major) | Prophets (Minor) | Prophets (Minor) |
Reference | Psalm 2 | Psalm 23 | Psalm 33 | Job 1, 2 | Job 3 | Job 38 | Ezekiel 34.1-16 | Ezekiel 37.1-14 | Habakkuk 1.1-2.4 | Habakkuk 3 | |
Title | For the king of Israel | The Great Shepherd | Our hope is in the Great King | But he didn’t do anything wrong | Why? | Where is God in all those hard times? | What can the Great King do with dry bones? | More shepherds | How can you just sit there and do nothing? | Faithfully following the Great King |
TERM 3 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s New Words, Jesus, The Word | Topic | Who is Jesus? | Who’s in?
| Stories about the Kingdom | Jesus in charge | The unkingly King | The transfiguration | Position in the Kingdom
| The anointing | The Lord’s Supper | Various responses |
Reference | Mark 1:1-15 | Mark 1:21-2:17 | Mark 4:1-20 | Mark 4:35-5:43 | Mark 8:22-38 | Mark 9:2-10 | Mark 10:13-52
| Mark 14:1-9 | Mark 14:12-26 | Mark 14:53-16.6 | |
Title | Introducing Jesus, recognising God | Do you see the King? | The Sower and the Seed | There’s a new King in town | Not my type of King
Part 1 The upside-down Kingdom | Not my type of King
Part 2 A sneak preview | How to be 1st in the
Kingdom | King Jesus | The meal of the Kingdom | Who do you say I am? |
TERM 4 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s New Words,
The Letters | Topic | What Paul says | What Paul says | What Paul says | What Paul says | What Paul says | What John says | What John says | What John says | What John says | What John says |
Reference | Colossians 1:1-14 | Colossians 1.15-23 | Colossians 2.6-10 | Colossians 3.1-17 | Col 4.7-9 + Philemon
| Revelation 1.4-20 | Revelation 2, 3 | Revelation 4, 5 | Revelation 11.17, 18; 12.10-12 | Revelation 21.1-5; 22.1-7 | |
Topic | Paul prays for the Colossians | Who Jesus really is | How we keep going | A whole new wardrobe | Reconciliation: Onesimus + Philemon | Jesus like you’ve never seen him before | What’s wrong with the church? | The Great King in control | The serpent is crushed | The bride, the city and the garden |
TERM 1 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Who is God? | Title | No one made God | God created everything | God is the Great King | God is the only God | God made people | God cares for people | God is holy | God never changes | God makes promises and keeps them | How do we live faithfully with God as our Great King? |
Reference | Genesis 1.1 + Psalm 90.2 | Genesis 1 | Genesis 1.1 + Acts 17.24 | Deuteronomy 4.32-40 | Genesis 1.26-2.15 | Psalm 8.3-9 | 1 Samuel 2.2 + Isaiah 59.2 | Numbers 23.19 + Psalm 102.25-27 | Deuteronomy 7.9 | Psalm 119.9-11 |
TERM 2 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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What is in the Bible? | Title | God’s words | God’s Old Words | The Law | The Stories | God’s Messengers | The Wise Words | God’s New Words | The Gospels | The Letters | What do we learn from the Bible? |
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TERM 3 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Who is in the Bible? | Title | Adam | Noah | Abraham | Moses | David | Elijah | Isaiah | Peter | John | Paul |
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TERM 4 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Who is Jesus? | Title | God with us | The Promised King | King of creation | King of sickness | King of sin | The Unkingly King | Faithfully following the Promised King | Who is Jesus? | Jesus dies | King of death |
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TERM 1 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s Old Words:
The Stories | Title | The Great King | The great sin | The great promises | The great rescue | The great mountain | The promised land | The faithful king of Israel | Israel breaks | Unfaithful Israel | Is God still the Great King? |
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TERM 2 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s Old Words:
The Wise Words | Title | The faithful follower | The Great Shepherd | The Great King who knows me | How wisdom begins | Trust in the Lord with all your heart | A time for everything | What Isaiah says | What Jeremiah says | What Hosea says | What Jonah says |
Reference | Psalm 1 | Psalm 23 | Psalm 139 | Proverbs 1.7 | Proverbs 3.5, 6 | Ecclesiastes 3.1-8 | Isaiah 5.1-7 | Jeremiah 31.31-37 | Hosea 11 | Jonah 1-4 |
TERM 3 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s New Words:
Jesus, the Word | Title | A special baby | Preparing for the Promised King | New beginnings | What Jesus says | Jesus feeds | Jesus heals | Jesus forgives | Jesus prays | Jesus dies | Jesus lives |
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TERM 4 | WEEK | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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God’s New Words: What happens next | Title | Jesus goes up | The Holy Spirit comes down | What Peter says | God’s new people | Philip tells a man from Africa about Jesus | Saul=Paul | Paul goes | Churches, churches everywhere | What Paul says | What John says |
Reference | Acts 1.1-11 | Acts 2.1-13 | Acts 3.1-41 | Acts 4.23-37 | Acts 8.26-40 | Acts 9.1-19 | Acts 12.25-13.52 | Acts 16.1-19.22 | Ephesians 2.1-10 | 1 John 4.7-21 |