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It's great to celebrate Harvest!

The Bible tells us that God is always at work helping us to have the food we need. Jesus, as Lord of the Universe, created all things for himself, and "in him all things hold together" (Colossians 1:16-17) - so that means the plants that our food comes from too. He made them, they "hold together" - they grow, and keep growing - because of Him. Jesus makes it clear that we're to pray to "Our Father", "Give us today our daily bread!"

So it makes so much sense to praise Him and thank Him for our food - when it's Harvest, and all year round! At our church we're going to be having a special "Harvest" All-Age service, and I'll be doing Harvest Assemblies in school too. Perhaps you'll be celebrating Harvest with the Sunday School or a Kids' Club?

Here's a great song that sums that all up: "Harvest Time" - a time for "Thank you" because God is at work in it all, and "Please" because he's still at work today.

Have a look at the words on the MGBT website - click here. Or click here to get the downloads or a CD from the MGBT store.

Maybe your Bible story in Sunday School is a healing miracle, and you're really keen that the children understand: it's because of who Jesus is! It shows us he's the Son of God!

Remember Peter suddenly realising who Jesus is in Matthew 16 (like Mark 8)? "You are the Christ - the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16) - that's what we're supposed to realise, when we've seen the miracles. Some did - Blind Bartimaeus understood, and called out to Jesus "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!".

"One Man Said" imagines what it must have been like to be healed by Jesus, and, like Blind Bartimaeus, realise exactly who Jesus really is. "One man said: 'He gave me sight when I was so blind, now I can see in the bright sunshine, who could this be with this power so good?' Gave him sight? SON OF GOD!"

There are 4 verses - three miracles, and one verse about our response. Actions / Motions are fairly easy to work out for this one!

Have a listen here: 

Or go to the Jukebox on MGBT to hear the whole song. Here's a link to the downloads - MP3 files and PDF sheet music.

"Jesus has Authority" - he's the boss, the one in charge, and you can see it through the miracles he did.

Where John focusses on "signs" (see Songs about Miracles #1), Mark in his Gospel shows us Jesus' Authority - and he's got real authority in bucket loads: over nature, sickness, sin, and even life and death.

The Sunday School Song "Jesus has Authority" looks at some of these miracles from Mark's and John's Gospels, and encourages us to see Jesus' authority, and so respond with faith in him as the "way, truth and life" (John 14:6).

There are verses about the wedding at Cana, the healing of the paralytic, Jairus' daughter, and the calming of the storm. It's a song that has a free rhythm, and works really well with solo guitar or piano, or just unaccompanied.

Have a listen: 

Get the downloads (PDF Sheet Music, MP3 files, including instrumental) from Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes - and listen to the full song on their "jukebox".

In John's Gospel the miracles are presented as seven "signs" - pointers to who Jesus really is. We're supposed to see the signs through John's testimony, and believe in Jesus as the Son of God (John 20:31)

That's a really helpful perspective in Sunday School, because the children might be wondering why Christians can't do miracles like Jesus' today. The obvious answer is: because we're not the Son of God! At the same time, it's vital that John gives us the evidence that Jesus IS the Son of God - otherwise, how would we know to believe?

The song "Seven Signs" takes us through the signs as they come up, and asks what they're all about - with the great answer: they're about Jesus being the Son of God!

You can listen to the full version on the Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes website: Seven Signs - you can get downloads of Sheet Music and MP3 files there too.

"Grace" is right at the heart of what we want children to understand about God. As a Sunday School teacher, it's so tempting to want them to "do the right thing" - ie, to do what they're told - that we turn the Good News of Jesus into a message of "being good".

The reality of God's grace is that he loves us even though we can't actually achieve the elusive "being good". So in Sunday School I like to teach kids about Grace: God giving us what we don't deserve - the amazing generosity of God - or, as someone once said: "God's Riches At Christ's Expense"

The song 1,2,3,4 Grace has a simple message about God's grace, combined with a little joke about the sounds of the numbers one, two (to), three (free) and four (for).

Listen to a short snippet of the song here:

Here's a link to the full song: 1,2,3,4 Grace - have a listen and sing along!