August 24, 2025

Parents, what a joy it is to serve your precious arrows on Sunday mornings! The Little Reformers team wants you to always have full visibility to what we are teaching your kids. It is important to us that we be effective partners to you, reinforcing what you work hard to teach your children at home. Each week, we update this section of the website to reflect the lesson, the big truth, gospel point, verse, and catechism your child(ren) will learn while in our care. We hope this resource is a help to you and gives you confidence as you train up your children in the way they should go.

Bible Story: Chapter 18. Big People, Little Faith (Numbers 13-14)

The Big Truth: Believing God’s promises makes us brave.

The Gospel Point:  We are a lot like Israel. Too often we doubt God’s promises and are too afraid to do the hard things he’s called us to do. But Caleb and Joshua teach us what true faith looks like. True faith is brave. It trusts that God will keep his promises. If he kept his promise to send the Snake Crusher to rescue us from our sins, we can count on him to keep his other promises. So what do we do when our faith is small? There is a simple prayer we learn from Mark 9:24. It goes like this: “I believe. Help my unbelief.” Even such small faith in a big, promise-keeping God is enough because God is, well, big!

Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Catechism: Q: 49. Who will be saved? A: Only those who repent of sin and believe in Christ. (Mark 1:15, Luke 13:3, 5, Acts 2:37-41, 16:30-31, 20:21, 26:20)

Sources: Bible stories from The Biggest Story Bible Story Book by Kevin DeYoung. Catechisms from Truth and Grace Book 1 by Tom Ascol . The Big Truth and the Gospel Point taken from The Biggest Story Bible by Kevin DeYoung, published by Crossway.