Sunday School is the class at the chapel that the children attend. (Bible Series)

Among the many memorable prophets in the Bible is Elijah, who transcends death. He goes out walking and is summoned up to heaven in a chariot of fire. (Bible Series)

Alternatively: 走 + 刀 + 口 walk + knife + mouth

You walk to the supermarket, and a vendor is using his mouth to get you to buy a knife.

One of Jesus’s most famous miracles is calming the breakers of the stormy Sea of Galilee. (Bible Series)

Moses goes to Pharaoh and requests him to “let his people go.” Pharaoh asks the rhetorical question, “Who is the Lord?,” and Moses answers with a series of plagues, including an east wind that brings in locusts that cover the land. After ten such plagues, Moses is ultimately triumphant over Pharaoh who lets Israel go. (Bible Series)

As Jesus prepares for his death, he confers authority on his apostles by placing his hands on them, and they received it. (Bible Series)

With this choice of life comes children. And, Adam and Eve's first child, Cain, is a stubborn one--a real blockhead. (Bible Series)

Joseph’s case is special. Picture the drop above this sheaf representing his righteousness that sets him apart. He’s touched by heaven. (Bible Series)

Christ says that those on his right are blessed because they blessed others (Matthew 25:34). (Bible Series)

After letting Israel go, Pharaoh changes his mind and pursues them to the Red Sea. Moses parts the water to let his people pass through, but the water comes together in a deluge to flood the Egyptian army behind them. (Bible Series)

The tempting tree brings knowledge of good and evil, but also contains life and death. This tree of contrasts is represented in this character meaning “dissimilar”, death on the left and tempting life on the right. (Bible Series)

Jacob, renamed Israel, has 12 sons. It is his last son, Joseph, who will carry on God’s covenant, so he is favored. Joseph has a dream about sheaves of grain, where his brother’s sheaves all bow to his. He shares the dream with his brothers in hopes they will see the favoritism is God’s will. They don’t buy it. (Bible Series)

Noah is excited when the dove returns back over the water with an olive leaf in her mouth. (Bible Series)

The ten commandments, a moral code, have kept people in line for thousands of years. (Bible Series)

Perhaps the world’s most famous mom is the hallowed young woman, Mary, who becomes the mother of Jesus. (Bible Series)

Parable of the the Lost Coin: she seeks what is lost by sweeping the house with a broom, using her thumb to get it out of a crack. (Bible Series)

Like people in all ages, the Israelites rebelled. They were getting sick and dying from snake bites, so Moses gets up on a cliff, holds up his staff, wrapped with a snake, and says that all the people need to do to be healed is look back, turn their head toward God (represented by the staff), and they will live. (Bible Series)

The head-hinge he only body part that is allowed to move during Sunday School to bow your head. (Bible Series)

Noah releases the dove one last time, and she doesn’t return. He takes this as a sign that it is time to leave the ark, that the road is requesting his presence. (Bible Series)

Request the Presence of Noah’s Dove: During the flood of misery during the Depression, people often requested the presence of Noah’s dove of peace. (1930's On the Road)

A chapel has a cross on the roof.

Nowadays, Christians meet in chapels, often with a cross on top of the building. (Bible Series)

After leading his people out of Egypt, Moses now has to teach them how not to be slaves but to govern themselves on the way to the promised land. He receives new laws from God, including the 10 commandments, a safety net for the people that encourages them to be of one heart with each other. (Bible Series)

The world turns to chaos, and only by listening to God does Noah save himself, and in turn, all of creation. As the water recedes, he releases a white dove to see if it will find a tree on which to rest. (Bible Series)

This story about choosing to live fully, is a jewel in Western culture, a “pearl of great price,” just like a vermilion-colored pearl would be quite precious. (Bible Series)

One law God’s people are asked to obey is sacrifice. They are to take their best lamb and burn it on the altar to God. (Bible Series)

God gives them specific instructions about the trees in the garden. There is one with very tempting vermilion (bright red) fruit from which they are not supposed to eat. Can you see the fruit hanging on the branch of the tree in this character? (Bible Series)

There is lots of wisdom literature in the Bible. The king famous for his wisdom is Solomon. Two women come to him arguing over a baby that they both claim is theirs. He suggests they cut the baby in half with a sword and each take half. Of course, he knows this is the best way to judge between the women, because the real mother will never allow her baby to be killed. (Bible Series)

The large rope in chapels is made of fine silk.

You alter the snake into a whip.

The snake (in the Garden of Eden) hopes to alter the human condition by becoming the taskmaster. (Bible Series)

To the taskmaster: "You snake! You altered the plan on us!" (Wedding Planner)

A foundation stone exits the quarry to become cornerstone of the temple. (Bible Series)

The people of Israel spend 400 years as slaves in Egypt. One Israelite, Moses, has an outstanding experience, where he sees God in a burning tree. God tells him to get Pharaoh to free his people. (Bible Series)

Proverbs 22:6 Whether it is children or trees, if you plant them in the straight way, they won’t depart from it. (Bible Series)

In the garden, Adam and Eve wear (next to) nothing. Do you see the fig leaves on Eve like a two-piece bathing suit? (Bible Series)

This character shows one elder brother ruling over the sheaf. The elder brothers naturally think Joseph’s sheaf (birthright) should belong to them. (Bible Series)

Joseph’s cruel brothers decide to do away with him and throw him in a pit. (Bible Series)

As a young man, Jesus travels to Jerusalem, the walled city, to teach the elders in the temple. (Bible Series)

Paul, in his epistle to the Romans says, “God hath given the people the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see.” (Bible Series)

While Moses is on Mount Horeb (where he saw the burning bush), he is told by God he will be the one to free his people. Moses asks some rhetorical questions like, “Who am I to do this thing?” Rather than answer, God gives him a rod that can be changed into a snake. In this way, he can demonstrate his power and authority from God. (Bible Series)

wide is the gate and broad is the way of the lively life that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13)

The Bible starts with the creation story: “In the beginning…” and tells of the first two humans, Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve are created as companions. They are so close, Adam calls her “flesh of my flesh.”

Since the garden provides so abundantly, Adam and Eve don’t have much to do besides play. Here they are playing with a jewel they found. (Bible Series)

The heavens are shut to the devil (the big guy with horns).

The heavens are shut to those who build the golden calf. (Bible Series)

The two components of this character sound like one another.

Jesus teaches us to love one another by removing the wooden beam from your eye before removing the mote from your brother’s. (Bible Series)

Adam and Eve make the choice of life, which starts their journey into our world. If we look back to the distant past, we can see our brave first parents showing us the way. (Bible Series)

Adam and Eve are enclosed for a while in a garden called Eden, where they think they have everything they need. (Bible Series)

When you put the sun under a ceiling (like a greenhouse) you produce even more sheaves.

The story goes on with many twists and turns, but ultimately, Joseph ends up in a position of privilege in Egypt (a sunny place) where he can provide grain to his family during a famine. The story is even more fulfilling than we imagined, and the covenant is perpetuated. (Bible Series)

Much of Western civilization’s Bible heritage was transmitted through art. Picture all of those prophets, saints, and especially Jesus, donned with a halo, a drop of silver above their heads. (Bible Series)

The hope of Joseph’s father, that God’s covenant will be carried on, is represented in the colorful cloth, the coat of many colors that Jacob gives Joseph. (Bible Series)

Imagine history as the history of food.

History, in the time of Joseph, was passed down by mouth, so stories often got better and more layered with meaning over time. (Bible Series)