02/09/2026
Here's this week's Awana message...When Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, sin came into the world, bringing death and destruction and corrupting every part of God’s perfect creation. From the outside, it looked like this was the end. But God. Our Heavenly Father had a plan from before the beginning of the world to redeem what was broken and restore the close relationship between us, His wayward creation, and Him, our holy Creator. But this plan required a sacrifice.
That sacrifice was given by Jesus Christ, God’s Son, God Himself, who took on the form of a man, lived a perfect life, then gave it up on the cross and rose again three days later so that we might be saved (Philippians 2:5–8). Because of Jesus, can have true life with the Father. Because of Jesus, we have hope.
Creation → Fall → Redemption
But though Christ’s sacrifice provided a pathway for redemption, creation remains corrupted. One day, however, Christ will come again and He will restore all things to how God meant them to be. We’ll talk more about that next week.
Talk About This One Thing:
This week, talk about how the entirety of the Bible points to God’s plan for redemption in Christ. Prophecy after prophecy talks about a coming Savior, and story after story foreshadows His arrival (see Genesis 3:15; Genesis 28:14; 2 Samuel 7:12–13; Isaiah 7:14 and more). Resources like The Jesus Storybook Bible do a great job at illustrating this truth.
Continue the Conversation
1. Memorize Philippians 2:5–8 as a family: Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2. Break the passage down into smaller phrases and write them on index cards. Do memory speed drills with the cards or post them around your house so your kids can see them and be reminded of the verse.
