(Caution: Only use felt on a carpeted floor. If they miss a word, they fall in the river and must wait for the next child to rescue them. Children say one word of the verse as they step on each stone. Place them across floor, spacing them apart so they can be walked on. You need one stone for each word in the verse. Stepping stones-Make “stones” out of felt or use rubber polyspots. Hand motions-Ask kids to help you come up with hand and body motions that fit the meaning of the words.ĥ. Can be used with Paul and Silas talking to Philippian jailer. Walk different ways around the room: tiptoe, march, walk backwards, etc.ģ, Act out the verse. Role Play. When you are holding the item you say the next word in the verse. Toss a bean bag back and forth or pass a toy from person to person. When you get the ball, it’s your turn to say the verse.’ Examples of verses that can be taught this way: 1 John 4:14 and Revelation 4:11. Stomp your feet, use rhythm sticks or egg shakers to make a beat. Set the verse to a rhythm. As you say the verse, clap your hands, thighs or tummy. Here are some great ideas for teaching verses to energetic non-readers.ġ. He was actually mocking false prophets and going for a Jim Morrison vibe with that cover, for what it’s worth.Although we think preschoolers when we think of non-readers, many leaders have older clubbers who have difficulty reading or clubbers who can read, but are not fluent in English. Which was too bad, as it’s a great album too. That whole album is strong, from the title song to “ Hero” to “Sin for a Season.” “ On the Fritz” from that album is also a sneaky beast of a song, as is “I Just Wanna Know.” His I Predict 1990 album cover got him accused of dabbling in Tarot because that’s the kind of thing we argued about in Baptist churches in 1989. ![]() I’ll go with “We Don’t Need No Color Code” from Meltdown (1984) because it tackled a huge issue, racism, from the Christian perspective decades ago and with a moral fire that few can match. “You save the whales, you save the seals, you save whatever’s cute and squeals, but you kill that thing that’s in the womb, would not want no baby boom.” “ Bad Rap” was in fact a bad rap that skillfully skewered the green pro-whale/anti-baby left. “ I Want to Be a Clone” tackled being a maverick in the face of conformist culture. He has put out so many songs across so many decades in so many different sounds - and under different bands, such as Sixpence None the Richer (he wrote and produced their massive hit “ Kiss Me“) and Newsboys, not to mention Chagall Guevara and Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil - that his best is very hard to pin down (so is his worst, for whatever that’s worth). He had a knack for making words that shouldn’t rhyme live together and pretty soon he was stealing the show at Christian music festivals and being written up in Rolling Stone. Steve Taylor was a youth minister who started writing songs for his church youth group. They’re back to sporting the yellow and black and still flying with the harmonic riffs. ![]() Here’s “Do Unto Others,” which they released in 2020. Stryper, for one, broke through in that era and they’re still going strong. Some of them wrote about issues years or decades ahead of their time, some went all the way from Eagles-style country to experimental, some faded away, and some covered Led Zeppelin covering Blind Willie Johnson and are still cranking out good stuff. Some we’ve long forgotten, and nature has reclaimed them like undergrowth on a jungle temple. Some of them were interesting and creative trails that are not yet finished. Even One Bad Pig.įrom the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, a whole bunch of bands followed after the 60s Jesus Music phenomenon led by the late Larry Norman and blazed some trails. What heavy stuff, you probably didn’t ask? Well, Steve Taylor for one. Actually, for those days I was something of a rebel, a Baptist bad boy, because I eschewed the likes of Steve Green and Sandi Patty for the heavy stuff. But it was Texas just south of Dallas in the 1980s and it was our culture. Whether I was born or born again that way we’ll never know.
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