Teach Me Jesus Thursday: Celebrating Jesus’ Resurrection

If you read my article at Desiring God a couple of weeks ago, you may remember that one of the suggested topics for teaching our children about Easter is the resurrection.

The resurrection of Jesus from the grave is key to our faith. When we teach our children the gospel, we tend to focus on Jesus’ death for their sins. But we also need to include the resurrection, for had he not risen, our faith would be useless and we would still be in our sins.

The kids and I recently read the passage in 1 Corinthians that teaches this truth. “But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.” (1 Corinthians 15:13-19)

After we talked about this passage, the boys made themselves a sweet and fun treat. Perhaps it is something you might want to do alongside teaching your children about the resurrection.

I took a donut and cut it in half to use as a cave opening (you could also use a bagel). We used an Oreo cookie to represent the stone rolled away. We used icing to hold it all in place. On the plate, we used more icing to write “He is risen” on it. Then we sprinkled shredded coconut I had died green with food coloring around the tomb.