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001. Angels Announce Jesus’ Birth

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This skit shows shepherds' fearful, yet glad adventures when brightly shining angels appear and sing. The amazed shepherds rush to Bethlehem and find a newborn baby wrapped in rags in an animal’s feeding trough, who is to be the savior of the world.

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002. John Baptizes Jesus, and the Three that Are One Take Part

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Join the crowd as John the Baptist baptizes our Lord, and share his amazement as heaven responds in a most amazing way.

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003. The Devil Tempts the Lord Jesus Christ in Three Diabolical Ways

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Find how sneakily the devil tempts our sinless Lord to do what is wrong. The way Jesus responds sets a valuable example for us to follow.

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004. Jesus Creates Wine to Bless a Marriage, His First Miracle

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Join Jesus and his mother Mary at a lavish marriage. Servants want Mary to be their mediator, to ask Jesus to help in a crisis. Jesus respectfully refuses her, and she tells the servants o go directly to him, with miraculous results.

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005. Jesus Forgives a Paralytic’s Sins Because of his Friends’ Faith

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An astonished crowd watches Jesus prove to proud and angry scholars that he can forgive sins.

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006. A Bedtime Prayer Turns into a Surprising Conversation

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Listen in as a young man starts to repeat the Lord’s Prayer at bedtime, as was his habit. To his great surprise and fear his heavenly Father responds conversationally.

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006A. Jesus Tells how to Build our Spiritual Foundation

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Join Jesus’ disciples as they sit around Jesus listening to him conclude his famous Sermon on the Mount. Have fun with a young man who portrays the foolish builder, and consider seriously what the one true foundation is for believers’ lives.

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007. Jesus Calms a Storm, Proving His Power over Nature

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Accompany Jesus’ disciples in their fishing boat. A storm comes, and they are losing their battle against wind and waves, while Jesus sleeps! Experience their relief and wonder when they waken him and he calms nature’s fury.

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008. The Lord Jesus Forgives a Wayward Samaritan Lady

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Step into the world of a Samaritan woman who joyfully discovers the miraculous wonder of forgiveness for her life of sin and the true water of life. See its effect on her people when they also meet Jesus.

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009. The Lord Jesus Christ says “Eat my Flesh and Live Forever”

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Find why a disillusioned crowd suddenly stopped following Jesus, after they came to him hinting that he give them more free bread.  

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010. Jesus Likens Hearers to Four Kinds of Soil

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Find out how a farmer discovers that sowing seed in different kinds of soil gives very different results. Then search your heart to see if you need to improve your soil.

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011. A Samaritan Shows Practical Love to an Ailing Enemy

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Come down the road to Jericho, Watch as robbers assault a traveler, leaving him half-dead. Two religious officials pass by, shamefully neglecting him. Then one whom he had supposed to be an enemy stops and gives of his time and money, showing true love.

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012. The Lord Frees a Lady from Twelve Years of Suffering

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Act out the intense drama of a desperate rabbi seeking healing for his dying daughter, and an embarrassed lady who has suffered for many years. She is very afraid as she approaches Jesus, as she is unclean according to Jewish law.

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013. Jesus Feeds Five Thousand with a Boy’s Small Gift

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Join a huge and hungry crowd out in the wilderness. A small boy and a hungry little girl squabble over a piece of bread. Find what happens when the boy listens to Jesus and does as the Lord says.

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014. Jesus Tells Peter How Many Times to Forgive

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Reenact Peter’s painful memory of denying Jesus and his joy of being restored. Find out also how many times God’s children are to forgive an offender.

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015. Our Lord Jesus is Transformed on a Mountain Top

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Go up a mountain with Jesus, Peter and James. Sense their terror as a bright cloud covers them, Moses and Elijah appear and talk with Jesus, and a voice from heaven tells them, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

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015A. Jesus Equips Harvesters to Announce His Kingdom

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Join Jesus’ disciples, as he sends them to Israel’s villages to proclaim his coming kingdom. The outcome is not exactly what they expected.

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015A. Jesus Foretells Events both Frightful and Hopeful

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Feel Jesus’ disciples’ astonishment on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem as he tells them the grand temple and city will soon be destroyed.

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016. Lord Jesus Tells of a Father’s Grace and a Son’s Disgrace

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Accompany a wasteful son as he wanders to a distant land and lives in luxurious revelry. Years pass and he finds himself broke, hungry and alone. Then he, like all repentant sinners, comes to his senses and returns to his rightful home, to freedom and joy.

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017. Jesus Heals a Blind Man on the Sabbath, Causing an Uproar

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Share the happy adventure of a blind man whom Jesus heals. However, our Lord does this “work” on the Sabbath day of rest, which angers the Pharisees, resulting in an explosive, but highly instructive, confrontation.

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018. Jesus Rebukes People who Replace God Laws with their own Rules

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Jesus’ hungry disciples pluck heads of grain and eat them, without first going through the traditional washing ceremony. Irate Pharisees accuse them of violating the sacred law, and Jesus answers with a powerful warning against religious legalism.

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019. Jesus’ Kindness Leads Greedy Zacheus to Repent

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A greedy tax collector is too short to see Jesus over the heads of the crowd, so he climbs a tree to see. To everyone’s surprise, Jesus looks up and tells Zacheus, “I will stay in your house today.” People gripe about this, because Zacchaeus is a notorious sinner.

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020. The Lord Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead

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Jesus’ disciples wonder why he delays when Lazarus’ sisters send word that Lazarus is seriously ill and beg Jesus to come. He finally goes, and Martha dares remind him that he has come too late. Jesus weeps at the tomb, and the outcome astonishes all.

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020A. Jesus our Triumphant King Rides a Donkey into Jerusalem

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Some wave palm branches jubilantly and others shout angrily as Jesus rides a donkey colt down the Mt. of Olives, making his final kingly entrance into Jerusalem. Feel the emotion as he stops, looks down at the great and ancient city, and weeps.

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021. Jesus Parts “Sheep” from “Goats” that Lack Practical Love

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Depressing despair turns into exuberant joy when a poor shoemaker in old Russia discovers the powerful meaning of Christ’s moving parable of the sheep and goats before his judgment seat in Glory.

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022. Our Lord Jesus Drives Greedy Merchants from God’s Holy Temple

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Holy anger! It’s the last week before Jesus’ death; he enters God’s temple and sees merchants and the animals that they sell to sacrifice. He makes a whip, drives out the animals and overturns the moneychangers’ tables, spilling their coins on the floor!

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023. Jesus’ Agonizing Prayer in Gethsemane

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Come up to the Garden of Gethsemane and hear our Lord’s agonizing prayer of submission that determines the destiny of all believers. During this “hour of darkness” his disciples shamefully sleep as a hostile mob marches up the slope with lanterns and weapons.

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024. Jesus’ Phony Trial before the Chief Priests

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Enter into the high drama of Jesus’ trials before Jewish and Roman rulers. The High Priest and his court condemn him to death, and the authoritarian Roman governor Pilate yields to the will of an angry mob.

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025. Crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Come to the hill of Calvary and listen as Jesus cries out from the cross. Soldiers mock him, and he prays for their forgiveness. He promises life to a dying thief who believes in the last moment, and a regretful Roman centurion realizes whom he has crucified.

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026. Jesus Restores God’s Image in a Dying Criminal

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Relive the shameful execution of Christ from the viewpoint of the dying criminals hanging on each side of him. Notice a vast difference between the two felons.

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027. Jesus’ Sabbath Day of Burial Divides all Human History

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Join those who weep at Jesus’ tomb. Find how his Sabbath burial became the decisive Sabbath of all time, separating the Old and New Covenants, as Jesus lay in perfect rest. His atoning work done, he’d soon rise as the first fruits of a new, eternal creation.

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028. Jesus Rises from the Dead, as Seen by Angels

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View Christ’s resurrection and its eternal results as seen by angels who watch curiously as the risen savior defeats the Satan who has been holding death’s captives in his greedy claws. Jesus frees all believers from death’s grip.

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029. Jesus Appears to Many after Rising from Death

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Relive the awesome surprise and joy of many disciples who had seen Jesus die, but now see him alive. Peter fears that Jesus will scold him for denying him, but instead receives a life-changing assignment. Others are also thrilled and amazed.

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029A. Our Lord Gives His Great Commission and Ascends to Glory

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Accompany Jesus’ apostles as they watch him rise into heaven after giving his final command. He gives this Great Commission with all authority in heaven and earth; demanding our complete attention and obedience.

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030. Jesus Reveals What the Old Testament says about Him on the road to Emmaus

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Let your heart be warmed as it is for Cleopas when Jesus, after rising from the dead, reveals what the Old Testament had foretold about him. Listen in as three disciples recall people in the Old Testament that pictured Jesus.

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031. Jesus Destroys Satan and Creates a New Heaven and Earth

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ZwPI8cfkJesus Destroys Satan and Creates a New Heaven and Earth About 5 minutes, from Rev. 1; 11; 12 & 21 Participants (No need to memorize lines; the aim is to relive sacred events, not to perform)    John    Mary        A girl or lady who can run fast, if you do the optional part with […]

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Jesus’ Agonizing Prayer in Gethsemane

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Come up to the Garden of Gethsemane and hear our Lord’s agonizing prayer of submission that determines the destiny of all believers. During this “hour of darkness” his disciples shamefully sleep as a hostile mob marches up the slope with lanterns and weapons.

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The Devil Tempts the Lord Jesus Christ in Three Diabolical Ways

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Find how sneakily the devil tempts our sinless Lord to do what is wrong. The way Jesus responds sets a valuable example for us to follow.

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