PowerPoint presentations for teaching the Bible to children
Use them in school assemblies or RE classes, church, Sunday school, kids’ clubs, at home – or anywhere else you can think of!
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Elijah runs away (still small voice)
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Elijah runs away (still small voice)
£5.00A Bible story PowerPoint presentation: Elijah runs away and hears the still small voice
PLUS printable cutouts to use in crafts
• Ahab & Jezebel
• Running away
• Under a bush
• Angel
• Food
• Horeb (Sinai)
• What are you doing here?
• I am the only one left
• Wind
• Earthquake
• Fire
• Whisper
• Outside the cave
• Hazae, Jehu, Elisha
• 7000 who don’t worship Baal(15 slides)
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Solomon’s temple
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Solomon’s temple
£5.00A Bible story PowerPoint presentation: Solomon’s temple
PLUS free Living Stones slide and colouring picture.
• King Solomon
• Temple plans
• King Hiram
• Cedars of Lebanon
• Floating logs by sea
• Quarrying
• Carving wood panels
• Outside
• Cutaway
• Front elevation
• Solomon praises(11 slides)
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Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
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Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
£5.00A Bible story PowerPoint presentation: Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
• King Nebuchadnezzar can’t sleep
• The magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers before the king
• The commander comes to kill Daniel
• Daniel and his friends pray
• Daniel praises God
• There is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries
• The statue
• The statue is smashed
• The rock becomes a mountain
• The dream explained
• God’s kingdom will endure forever.
• Nebuchadnezzar praises God(14 slides)
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Rich young ruler (camel and needle)
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Rich young ruler (camel and needle)
£5.00A Bible story PowerPoint presentation: Jesus and the rich young ruler (camel and needle).
• The man comes to Jesus
• The commandments
• I have kept these since I was a boy
• Sell everything you have…
• …and give the money…
• …to the poor
• Follow me
• The man goes away
• A camel trying to go through the eye of a needle
• Who can be saved?
• All things are possible with God(11 slides)
Price includes a free upgrade if/when a new version becomes available.
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About Lamp Bible Pictures
Clear and simple
Bold colours, simple lines, uncluttered backgrounds and basic viewpoints make the pictures clear and immediately understandable. They should be suitable for use on a video projector, TV screen, laptop or tablet, depending on the number of children you are teaching. Or you can print them out any size.
The style is simple and child-friendly – but not babyish or comical.
Easy to use
If you can use PowerPoint, you can use these. There are no fancy effects, therefore as far as I’m aware they should work on all versions.
Adaptable
Use them as they come, use selected slides, add text, or adapt them however you want.
If there is text on the slides it is editable – so you can use any translation of the Bible, your own words, or translate to another language. So far, there are users in about 30 countries.
Biblically accurate
It’s important that we teach the children what is actually in the Bible, not some made-up version. Each story is based on a careful reading of the Bible passage, and I’ve also done my best to make sure it fits with the rest of the Bible. If you do see a mistake, please let me know!
Historically accurate
The stories in the Bible each happened in a real time and place. Clothes, furniture, housing, transport, weapons… these all had distinctive looks at different times throughout the thousands of years covered in the Bible. Yet so often Bible stories are illustrated as if they all happened in a vague ‘Bible time’ that has very little connection with real history at all.
I don’t think this makes sense, so I have spent many hours, over many years, researching the historical backgrounds of the stories – especially the clothes. As well as being more accurate, it also makes the pictures much more interesting.
Of course, there is a lot we don’t know about life in the past, particularly in Israel. So where I have no information I may look at furniture from a neighbouring country, or clothes from a slightly earlier or later period. It’s guesswork, but educated guesswork. And I’m always learning more.
If you’d like to see some of my research, you can go to the Lamp Bible Pictures Pinterest page (where you’ll also find craft and games ideas).
Timeless tales
The parables, on the other hand, are not true stories set at a particular time. They are made-up stories to teach timeless truths. So wherever it’s possible, I’ve set them in modern(ish) times, or ‘once-upon-a-time’.
Who draws these?
Me – Kirsty McAllister. I’m a freelance illustrator and designer – and also was a children’s Sunday School teacher for 30 years.
Contact me here.
I’m available for commissions in this and other styles – have a look at my website.
Or visit my blog.