New Testament Bible Story <> Software Cross Reference

Birth of Jesus Stories: See my extensive Advent & Christmas Software Page here at this website.

• Fluffy & God’s Amazing Christmas Adventure CD is the program of choice for age 6-15.
• Charlie Church Mouse 1 and 3 have part of the Xmas story for younger crowd.
• Play and Learn Children’s Bible CD
• Life of Christ CD
• See my Advent software lesson ideas and list in greater detail.

Jesus in the Boy in the Temple (Luke 2:21-52)

• Life of Christ: Lesson # 9
• What were young Jesus and the teachers talking about that amazed the teachers? Use Let’s Talk to create the lesson & recreate some dialog. What questions did they ask him? What questions did he ask the teachers? What did his parents say? What difficult questions would you ask YOUR elders? Click here for a detailed lesson suggestion for teaching the Boyhood of Jesus using Let’s Talk.
• Disciple’s Diary: * Out of print. Narration: Jesus chose to live with his family. His observations of daily life became basis for teachings. Several excellent video selections listed by the Jar: Bethlehem 1 and 2, One Room House 3-D.
• Life & Min. of Jesus: * Study note on obeying parents. (CD now out of print)
• A Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus: * *Photobubble and narration of boys being instructed in the Temple. (out of print)
• Play and Learn Childrens Bible CD “Jesus teaches the Teachers”

The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17, Luke 3, John 1)
The Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness (John 1:15-34) (Matthew 4:1-11)

• Jesus in Space CD covers the Baptism of Jesus.
• Life of Christ: Lessons #10, #11, #12 …Baptism, ‘Lamb of God,’ Temptations.
• See my “Tempations” lesson idea for Let’s Talk CD. This would be a good follow-up to using Life of Christ CD.
• Disciple’s Diary: Narration: All about John the Baptist and Jesus’ Temptation in the Wildnerness Videos: Don’t miss Jordan River flyover, Essene Temple, Judean Wilderness, and Qumran. See note about controlling 3-D motion above.
• Imagine new temptation dialog and have the kids recreate it (or you recreate it for them) to be spoken aloud through Let’s Talk CD.
• Ilumina Bible * DVD has animated video on this
• Walk in the Footsteps: * Photobubble and narration of baptismal site. Wonderful photobubble and narration of Wilderness temptation area. (out of print but we still have the outline)
• Walking in Their Sandals covers both with maps and photos.
• Play and Learn

Jesus Preaches in Nazareth (Luke 4:14-30)

•  Life of Christ: Lesson #15
• Use Let’s Talk CD to recreate the dialog “in the crowd” as they rushed him to the cliff. What were they complaining about? What would people say to defend him?
• Walk in the Footsteps: * Photobubble about Nazareth. (CD now out of print)
• Sandals Atlas and Holyland 3-D CD * can show kids where Nazareth is. Pretty cool media in both!

Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11)

Life of Christ: Lesson #13

Disciple’s Diary: Step 3 * –Narration: Cana and Miracles. Jesus in Nazareth (Luke 4), Outward and Inward Change. Videos: Cana, Nain, and Nazareth are not to be missed.

Heard a great lesson idea: use this story as an opportunity to talk about “what marriage is” (being that Jesus was there to celebrate one, and most of the kids see a marriage upclose everyday.) Illustrate with Kid Pix? Talk about with Let’s Talk CD.

Jesus Chooses his Disciples (Luke 5:1-11)  “Call of the Disciples”

• What would a Call to Discipleship “sound like” today? Have students speak this aloud using Let’s Talk CD. What would the Call sound like to steelworkers? A waiter? A businesswoman? A nurse? etc.
• Play and Learn Children’s Bible CD
• Life of Christ: Lesson #16.
• Disciples Diary: Step 4 in the Disciple’s Archive has a bit on this.
• I have POSTED my own lesson plan for Call of the Disciples using Life of Christ and Let’s Talk. Go to www.sundaysoftware.com/lessons/calldisciples.htm
•  Take Kid Pix and create different “scenes” calling Carpenters, calling ballplayers, calling kids, calling pirates. Because Kid Pix 3 can speak back whatever they type, you can come up with some very unique “calls.” Can also use Let’s Talk CD to do this (though without the illustrations).

About Various Apostles/Disciples

• Bibleland.com CD: * view the list of characters in this program which includes many disciples
• Life of Christ has material about some of the Disciples.
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: * Several good study notes about individual disciples, including Doubting Thomas. Look also in ‘People Jesus Knew’ exhibit. (CD now out of print)
• Use Bible Crosswords and Word Games CD to create crosswords and word searches about info about the Disciples and their names. Use Fall of Jericho quiz game to create a 25-30 question quiz game about the Disciples.
• See my Let’s Talk CD lesson’s page for several ideas about creating dialog/storylines for the disciples.

Samaritan Woman at the Well (John 4:4-42)

• Life of Christ: Lesson #14
• Life and Ministry of Jesus CD: * Interesting Chart in Study Notes about how Jesus treated women. Samaritan Woman is also in ‘People Jesus Knew’ exhibit.
• Let’s Talk CD See my lesson plan sketch here. Note: What if that had been a teenager or child at the well? What if that person at the well had been a bully, or a kid who had made bad choices and hung out with bad people? What if that had been an alcoholic or a teacher, or a leader in your church? What excuses would you give? And how would Jesus respond? Use Let’s Talk for this type of reflection activity after you’ve seen lesson 14 in Life of Christ CD.
• Good Sam the Samaritan –interactive “Good Sam Land Map” deals with the issue of Jews vs Samaritans. Narrated notes and questions included in it as well as a mention of the Samaritan woman.

Nicodemus (John 3)

• “Decode” the vocab/concepts using my free Nicodemus Question Set and Lesson Plan for use with Fall of Jericho CD.
• The gist of this story is a memory verse, ie “water and spirit”. That makes it a candidate for Cal & Marty’s Scripture Memory Game.
• Nic and Jesus’ conversation needs “decoded” for kids. You can do that (or have the kids do that) by using Let’s Talk CD to create the conversation in new words. www.sundaysoftware.com/lets-talk

Mary and Martha

• Play and Learn
• Use Let’s Talk CD to imagine the dialog in the house before and after Jesus was there. There are two sides to this story! Mary and Martha is one of the example lessons in Let’s Talk.
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: *Jesus Knew exhibit
• Disciple’s Diary: Videos: One room typical house 3-D walk through, Bethany video, home of Lazarus/Mary/Martha
• Bibleland.com*
• Footsteps of Jesus *-Bethany House View and print my Mary-Martha lesson plan that uses B.com and Footsteps. (CD now out of print)

Zaccheus, Lazarus

• Awesome Bible Stories CD -for Zaccheus www.sundaysoftware.com/awesome
• Play and Learn (both stories)
• Charlie Church Mouse #3 -Zaccheus up to age 7.
• Life of Christ: Lesson # 24 and # 26
• Footsteps of Jesus: *Photobubbles of Lazarus’ house, Zaccheus’ town (CD now out of print)
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: *Both are in the People Jesus Knew exhibit (CD now out of print)
• Disciple’s Diary:* Videos: One room typical house 3-D walk through, Bethany video, home of Lazarus/Mary/Martha
• Fly-down the Jericho road in Holyland 3-D CD*

Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

• Disciple’s Diary*
• Use Let’s Talk CD to imagine/recreate the dialog in the crowd. What were all the different reactions to this miracle from the bystanders?
• iLumina Bible* has a short animation on the “healing of the blind man.”

Woman caught in Adultery, Judging Others

• Life of Christ: Lesson # 22 ..Woman Caught in Adultery. Who will throw the first stone?
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: *Two good study notes: Sticky Situations… forgiving your debtors, a story about Chris. Heroes and Villains: James (Jesus’ brother), Judging others. (CD now out of print)

Sermon on the Mount/Beatitudes (Matthew chapters 5-7)

• Galilee Flyer –students fly across Galilee picking up and matching verses from the Beatitudes (or if selected: sayings from the Sermon on the Mount, including- salt, light, seek first). Pop-up windows explain their meaning.
• Life of Christ: Lesson # 40 about the sermon
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: excellent study note on the Beatitudes.
• Footsteps of Jesus: * Photobubble of what the Mount looks like. (CD now out of print)
• Disciple’s Diary: Step 4…Narration: Jesus moves to the seashore. The Disciples tells how he became a disciple. Sermon on the Mount, How Jesus taught, Who is welcome in the Kingdom. Videos: Beatitudes, Capernaum I ruins (this CD is out of print)
• Walking in Their Sandals Bible atlas has some excellent maps, a video lesson shot on location and articles about the Mount (this video is also included in Galilee Flyer CD).
• Holyland 3-D CD * can also allow you to fly-in to the area. Photos as well. Cool stuff.

 Lord’s Prayer

• Sunday Software’s Galilee Flyer covers it great – providing background and vocab info too.
• Cal & Marty’s Scripture Game can do it too.

Lessons on Prayer & Praying…

• Galilee Flyer CD’s “Lord’s Prayer” interactive lesson includes content “about praying”. For younger children, Say Your Prayers with Lil Angelina CD and our Play and Learn Children’s Bible CD have content on prayer. Let’s Talk CD and Kid Pix CD can also be used to create prayers that can be spoken aloud by the computer. See my article on Teaching About Prayer with Software

Kingdom of God – Short parables of Leaven / Mustard Seed / Pearl / Treasure

• Galilee Flyer –Does a good job of explaining what the Kingdom of God was. Game is played with verses from each of these “short” parable of Jesus. Student pick up and match as they fly the Galilean landscape. Pop up windows explain meaning.
• Pearl is found in Charlie Church Mouse #2 for up to age 9.
• Interactive Parables CD has a game about it.
• See my curriculum on four different Kingdom of God lessons

The Man let down through the Roof (Mark 2:1-12) (aka “Healing of the Paralytic”)

• Faith Through the Roof CD ….A full CD about this amazing story, includes lots of content and reflection.
• Life of Christ: Lesson #17
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: * Video Clip (CD now out of print)
• At this website…. a downloadable Walk Through of Peter’s house where miracle took place (view/download now)
• Footsteps of Jesus: * Photobubble of ruins of Capernaum (Peter’s town) today. (CD now out of print)
• iLumina Bible * has video tour of village of Capernaum
• Play and Learn
• Let’s Talk CD: what did the friends say to each other (argue about) or have to defend to others when they made the ruckus?

Jesus Calms the Storm (depending on which Gospel you’re reading, this story may be combined with Jesus & Peter walking on water.)

• Life of Christ: Lesson #18
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: * Video Clip (CD now out of print)
• Play and Learn Children’s Bible CD (see my lesson plan for “Calms the Storm”. It has adaptations for older children as well.)
• Footsteps of Jesus: * Photobubble of Galilee and boat
• Walking in Their Sandals Bible atlas –video of Galilee, maps, discussion.
• Let’s Talk CD: what did the disciples mutter to each other when Jesus did the miracle? What was Jesus thinking but not saying?
• Holyland 3-D CD* can also allow you to fly-in across the sea. Photos as well. Cool stuff.

Jesus Walks on Water, Peter Walks on Water

• Life of Christ: Lesson # 20
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: * Video Clip (CD now out of print)
• Play and Learn
• As a follow up reflection, use Let’s Talk to give voice to Peter while he’s sinking…along the lines of “excuses that make us sink,” and specific cries for help a young person might utter today.

Feeding of the 5000 (John 6:1-14)

• Five Loaves ~ Two Fishes CD! New from Sunday Software, includes Neil’s four week lesson set using video, software, skits and games to teach this important story.
• Life of Christ: Lesson # 19
• Life and Ministry of Jesus (CD now out of print)*Main animated story (good), Video Clip and study note. It’s very common to use both Life of Christ and Life of Jesus together for this lesson.
• Play and Learn
• Charlie Church Mouse #1 for non-readers
• Sandals Bible Atlas, view of the Professor on location.

Transfiguration of Jesus (Luke 9: 28-36)

• Life of Christ: Lesson # 21
• Disciple’s Diary: *Narration: Peter declares Jesus the Messiah, Transfiguration Videos: Mt. Tabor video of Transfiguration, Caesarea Philippi declaration of “you are the Christ.”
• Walking in Their Sandals Bible atlas has wonderful video lesson, maps and very insightful article on this subject. The teacher in the video is standing on the Mt. and explains the significance of the story.

Lost Sheep/Coin

• Play and Learn (sheep) for non-readers
• Charlie Church Mouse (coin) for non-readers
• Rewrite and illustrate the story in Kid Pix 3 using different imagery than sheep/shepherd. How would you tell it in our day?
• Create a “Where’s Waldo” -like sheep puzzle in Kid Pix. Create a sheep maze.
• Our Prodigal Son CD is the quintessential “lost” parable.

Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10)

• Good Sam the Samaritan CD
• Life and Ministry of Jesus: good chart about people’s attitudes toward Samaritan (CD now out of print)
• Interactive Parables CD has a game about it.

Parable of the Prodigal Son

• Play and Learn Children’s Bible CD for preschoolers
• Prodigal Son CD …from us at Sunday Software
• Charlie Church Mouse #3 for ages 4-8.
• Interactive Parables CD has a game about it.

Parable of Sower

• Walking in Their Sandals Bible atlas….”Sower’s Cove” video lesson and map
• As a follow up reflection, use Let’s Talk to create an animated onscreen character who re-invents the parable using other imagery, or who asks question to your student about “things in their life that work against their Faith/Word growing.” They can respond through the character too.
• Interactive Parables CD has a game about it.

Parable of the Talents (the servant who buries his master’s money), Stewardship

• Awesome Bible Stories CD www.sundaysoftware.com/awesome
• Interactive Parables CD has a game about it.

Parable of the Thankful Leper (Ten Lepers)

• Not specifically found in any Jesus software. Use Let’s Talk CD to create a talking version of the story set in modern situation. Create dialog that imagines & speaks dialog between the 9 lepers and the 1 who decides to return. Imagine dialog between the lepers and the priests concerning who Jesus is, how he had the power, etc. Could also use KidPix to create a project.

Parable of Workers in the Vineyard

• A perfect story for Let’s Talk. There’s so much GRUMBLING in this story which goes unspoken. And it’s a story about “fairness” which older children are concerned about. “Does God play favorites?” Kids can give voice to it. You could create a talking lesson with a quiz and discussion questions for the story. Then afterwards, you can have the kids turn on the “Talk Now” module and create answers your questions. How does the church “play favorites” …or not? Are kids treated as non-members? etc etc. How do you treat new kids in the class? How do you help others in the class that may not know as much as you about these stories?

Other Parables —

• Interactive Parables CD has 24 quizzes about 24 parables. But note:This is a 3d game CD for older students that can take over 35 minutes to play per story.

 “Who do men say that I am?” …and… “On this rock I will build my church”

• Walking in Their Sandals Atlas, Caesarea Philipi extraordinary video lesson and map with text.
• HolyLand 3-D CD allows you to “fly in” to Mt Hermon right above Caesarea Philippi in a spectacular way. (CD now out of print)

The Great COMMANDMENT, Matthew 22:36-40

• If ever there was a verse that kids should memorize, the Great Commandment is it. Use Cal & Marty’s Scripture Memory Game after you’ve done some discussion about Loving God, Loving Others. See my lesson example for the Great C on the bottom of the Cal & Marty description page. The Great Commandment is also ‘seen’ along the trail up Mt. Sinai in the Ten Commandments CD. Note: the word “Great” is the word “Mega” in the Greek, which can also be translated as “large, loud, awesome.” Quite a visual word if you were going to illustrate it in Kid Pix.

Jesus the Good Shepherd – John 10

• Use Kid Pix to illustrate “I am the gate” How is Jesus like “a gate” …what is he standing/laying between? I would also suggest you teach the story of the Shepherd who goes out to find the one lost sheep. Two halves of the same important concept.

Jesus Appears saying Peace Be With You — John 20

• Use Let’s Talk CD to rephrase Jesus’ greeting and invitation to be touched.