Lenses is a great teaching technique to help students read the scriptures from different perspectives. Try it if you decide to use the lesson manual activity where students try to think about the resurrection of Lazarus through the eyes of different people in the story. Primary teachers of younger children may find their students do not understand what death is. Be sure your students understand what death is before you talk about resurrection.

This is a story about when Jesus showed the people he had power over death. The story is found in the scriptures in Luke 10 and John 11. This is an easy-to-read version from New Testament Stories: A man named Lazarus lived in Bethany. He lived with his sisters, Mary and Martha. They loved Jesus […]

Sydney S. Reynolds, “Sharing Time: Savior and Redeemer,” Friend, Apr 1999, 13 “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25).” Nathan and his cousins were playing by a large irrigation ditch. They knew that they shouldn’t play so close to it, […]