Context for Kids
Historical Bible context for kids (of all ages) plus character lessons archived each week from my online radio show ”Context for Kids” through Hebrew NationRadio.
Episodes
Where is Isaac? After the ram appeared, Isaac was nowhere to be found, and what happened to him and his family is one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible--one that led the ancient Rabbis to ask questions about the coming Messiah.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/08/11/episode-178-the-mystery-of-isaac/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/-O5IahQoosw
When I was a teenager, there were people with certain diseases whom everyone was scared to get near, and in every generation, there are people who are hated because of what they do for a living, what they believe, or where they come from. Last week, we saw how Jesus dealt with the hated Samaritans, and this week we are going to talk about Princess Diana and Mother Theresa--two ladies who reached out to people whom others hated.
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If we want to see what love looks like, we have to look at how Jesus treats the people whom everyone else disapproves of being with. This time, we are going for the double whammy of a woman who wasn’t even a Jew but one of the Samaritans, their hated enemy. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/07/27/episode-176-jesus-and-the-outcasts-the-woman-at-the-well/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/NqXyJiV3vRM
This week we are going to look at what Jesus said about kids, their angels, and anyone who hurts them.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/07/13/episode-175-you-never-bother-god/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/aae1xF8jOTY
We’re going to talk about a very important part of God’s love this week—justice! What did Jesus mean when He said that people who exalt themselves will be exalted and people who humble themselves would be humbled? How do the stories of Joseph, David, Jesus and the churches of Revelation teach us how God’s love works in making things right? Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/06/27/episode-174-gods-honor-reversal-rollercoas...
This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year on social media so far but the last two weeks have been the worst so far. Sometimes, when grownups and kids are in front of a computer and can’t be punched, the say the most terrible things you can imagine to others--things they wouldn’t ever say if they were in front of the person. And if they would say those things in person, they need Jesus really bad. So, we are going t...
Yeah, everyone calls it the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man but when we look at what Jesus was telling His audience of mostly poor Jews, it was a funny and outrageous story about a very rich man who is so rotten that he ends up getting thrown into the canyon where all the trash of Jerusalem is burned. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/06/08/episode-172-the-rich-man-on-the-trash-heap/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/zqwC_7...
I love the Doctor Pimple Popper TV show because she has something in common with Jesus in the work she does to reunite people with their communities! Jesus healed people and no one did it better than Him but sometimes we forget that the most important thing about many of His miracles is that He got people back together with their families! Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/23/episode-171-the-miracles-of-jesus-and-why-...
How do we love like Jesus? We’re going to talk about the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, how goats aren’t evil, and what it looks like to love the least of these in school and church. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/07/episode-170-sheep-goats-and-the-love-of-jesus/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/BhKgIiGHnE0
Before we go back to Genesis and tackle the ever growing family of Abraham, we need to understand love as Jesus taught it. Otherwise, we might make the mistake of thinking that God approves of the nonsense those guys get into. Case in point—selling your little brother as a slave is not okay. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/05/02/episode-169-love-and-the-good-samaritan/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZUjw_df4TEw
Love is a very complicated thing in the Bible and so we are going to treat it very seriously. The Bible shows us that God’s love is emotional and active and also very interested in justice and mercy. And of course, we can’t talk about love without mentioning Mister Rogers! Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/04/25/episode-168-being-like-jesus-what-is-love/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/f8GG7YuiGzE
What is joy and how is it different from happiness? This week, I teach the kids about my own journey from sorrow to joy and we’ll talk about Jesus’s joyful life. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/04/03/episode-167-being-like-jesus-joyfulness/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDINsXL8Qk
What does Paul mean when he talks about peace? What does Jesus have to say about peacemakers? Is peace a feeling or an action or both? To learn about this we will have to travel all the way from Galilee to Galatia and then to Rome. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/03/26/episode-166-being-like-jesus-peacefulness/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/orlaG6H0SJA
Abraham just found out on the Mountain of the Lord that God will provide. God was getting ready to make His final promise to Abraham and He swears by Himself that absolutely everything He ever promised to Abraham is a done deal and will happen through Isaac and his descendants. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/22/episode-165-abraham-and-the-mountain-of-the-lord/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/HFBAbXGSsiQ
When is a sacrifice not a sacrifice? That’s the big question this week as the Angel of the Lord interrupts the sacrifice of Isaac. And what does this have to do with Jesus? We will also be discussing the ancient concept of the heavens in ancient Near Eastern context.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/14/episode-164-god-saves-isaac/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/8NRh5pNcZXs
Wait a minute—Isaac notices a red flag. They have the sacrificial knife, the coals for a new fire, and the wood, but there is no animal for the slaughter. As Han Solo would say, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” and Isaac is finally alone with his father and able to ask the question his father doesn’t want to answer. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2025/01/07/episode-163-isaacs-scary-question/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/...
Last time we were with Abraham, he had a terrible decision to make. Was he going to sacrifice Isaac in the Land of Moriah or was he going to refuse, or at least argue with God about it? Abraham's response is even more confusing than God's request--absolutely nothing for three whole days. We are starting to see hints about Jesus in this story, and so we will talk about the "type" of Isaac and the "antitype" of Jesus both carrying wo...
So, this year, I want to talk about Advent, which is a season on a lot of liturgical calendars but is often misunderstood as being another name for Christmas--which it isn't. Advent is a word meaning "the arrival of an important person or event" and because Advent almost always (but not this year) overlaps with Hannukah and many scholars believe Jesus was conceived in the winter and born during the Fall Festivals, I would like to t...
This week we are looking at the difference between being sad and being ungrateful. I am also talking to the kids about why Jesus was all He had to be and how anything less wouldn’t have been enough to save us.
Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/26/episode-160-thankfulness-and-the-dayenu-of-jesus/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q5F9PL4dXOA
This week, we are beginning the last chapter of Torah Portion Vayers, where God says something shocking to Abraham in order to test him. Transcript: https://contextforkids.com/2024/11/20/episode-159-abrahams-terrible-test/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekW1OgGhoWM
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