Did you decide you wanted to become a Christian at the end of the last episode? If YES - welcome to the universal church, your name has been written in the book of life and whenever you do end up dying, you get to spend eternity with God and with me! I’ll be praying for you because living as a Christian, trying to please God, love others and not sin is hard, although it is very rewarding. If you said NO, you didn’t want to become a Christian - that’s totally fine - keep listening and learning and thinking, there is no rush. Just remember, if you don’t accept Jesus you reject him. As a Christian, living for God, one of the most important jobs he gives us is telling other people about the gospel. Evangelism Why? So they can go to heaven too! Imagine what it will be like when you get to heaven. Your friends aren’t there because you didn’t tell them. Why wouldn’t you tell your friends? You were too shy to invite them to church. You enjoyed going to kids groups at church with the kids there and didn’t need any more friends at church, so you decided to not invite them. You had told yourself that they would have been too busy to come anyway - playing soccer and dancing and learning musical instruments. Bible verse: How are your friends going to become Christians? In the bible, in Romans 10:13,14 Paul wrote, “All who call out to the Lord will be saved. How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?” Why don’t I like sharing the gospel - I avoid arguments 3 Things You Can Do to Share The Gospel: Memorise the gospel story by heart and tell them Invite them to a church event Pray One final thing you could do is tell them about this podcast! If your friend hears the gospel in these episodes then they might be able to call out to the Lord and be saved! Also write an apple podcasts review. You could actually help lots of other people - kids and parents who don’t know you - to hear the gospel and become Christians by sharing this podcast, by leaving a review, by subscribing and following us on social media. All these things help the rankings of the show and enable the algorithms to rank us more highly, boosting our downloads, which means even more people may come to know Jesus. Just imagine how cool that is - to help people you don’t even know! I can imagine you getting to heaven and finding out heaps of people are there because of a review you wrote out in 2020 on itunes! Discussion Questions: What things make you hesitant to share the gospel? Who do you want to share the gospel with? Kind of like a role play - can you practise saying out loud what you would say to the person you just mentioned in the second question. I have an additional challenge, and if you’re listening to this a month or a year or even several years after I have posted this, I would love you to still do this challenge: Make a short video of yourself explaining the 5 parts of the gospel story and upload it to our facebook group. It can be as elaborate or as amateur as you like - we are not professionals here and there will be no mark. By doing this, we can get encouraged by you and you can get some practise!

Nobody really likes to talk about death. There is nothing good about dying. Or maybe there is? In this episode I am going to talk about it. Why? Because even though it isn’t a super-fun topic, it is actually a really important one. When you die and you believe Jesus took your sins, then you get to be with God and you will have nothing to fear. Here’s why: You will not be alone - God will be there and he loves you to infinity and beyond There is no sin there - no other people will be mean, hurtful or bullying you at all You know what it is not like - not sad, painful, lonely, depressing You know what you will feel - happy, joyful, content, bliss You know a bit about where you will be - A new Earth - Paradise Eternal life with God! That is what God created us all along for! I still have heaps of trouble imagining what it is ultimately going to look like, but know that it is going to be excellent and very worthwhile, because we are promised that it will be in the bible. How do I know all of this? The bible of course! Here is an awesome bible passage for you from the last book of the bible, Revelation 21:1-4, written by Jesus’ disciple John who saw heaps of things that are to come in the future. He says: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and so had the sea. Then I saw New Jerusalem, that holy city, coming down from God in heaven. It was like a bride dressed in her wedding gown and ready to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice shout from the throne: God’s home is now with his people. He will live with them, and they will be his own. Yes, God will make his home among his people. He will wipe all tears from their eyes, and there will be no more death, suffering, crying, or pain. These things of the past are gone forever.” Now there is one more sad thing to mention before the end of this episode and I would rather not talk about it because it is not a good thing. I am referring to the question about what happens to the people who don’t believe in Jesus and that Jesus was able to take away our sins on the cross. What happens to those people when they die? If you don’t believe in Jesus and don’t think you need your sins to be taken away then you will not be allowed to enter into eternal life with God. He has reserved places especially for people who believe in Him. If you don’t believe in him then you will not be let in. The other place people go when they die is usually referred to as Hell, but is really just a place where God is not. If God is loving and free of sin, then I can imagine a place without God would be horrible. The bible refers to it as ‘eternal destruction’ in 2 Thessalonians 1:9. So for those people this earth right now is the best existence they are ever going to get, but for us we are blessed with a perfect Eternal Life with God to look forward to! But we don’t have to be worried, because Jesus said some comforting words to his disciples that we can take comfort in too. Jesus said to his disciples, “Don’t be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I wouldn’t tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. After I have done this, I will come back and take you with me. Then we will be together.” John 14:1-3 Discussion Questions: Share any concerns you may have about dying. Are there any things that you heard today that make you excited? What 3 words would you use to describe God to someone who has never heard of him?

Jesus. This is what this episode is about.  He is God. He is also God's Son.  It sounds complicated, let me explain... God has 3 parts that are all God, 3 different roles. God The Father, God The Son, Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. The Father sent Jesus to be born, and we celebrate God the Son becoming a human at Christmas. Jesus grew up, proved he was God by doing amazing, miraculous things and teaching amazing things as well, and then he died on the cross, pinning all of the world’s sins there with him. Jesus had no sins, which meant he could take the punishment we should have got because we had sinned, and he did it. Remember how there are consequences for disobeying God? This was the consequence, and Jesus did it so we won’t have to. The reason why God chose to do it like that was because when Jesus did it, he could come back alive again and go to heaven because he is God and perfect and holy! So our sins have been paid for. The sins of the whole world! It doesn’t matter how bad your sins are or how many you have done! Remember back to the beginning, when God created everything? He loves his creation and thought it was worth going through all that terrible suffering in order to get rid of the sin and make us his friends again. Amazing hey!!! We know this because a verse in the bible, John 3:16 says “16 God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and have eternal life.”  Remember in the White Episode (Episode number 2) when I talked about clean, white paper with no smudges on it? Imagine every time I sin is like I get out a big black marker and scribble all over the clean, crisp paper. Sometimes my sin is just one little smudgy scribble, sometimes it is a huge dark blot. Whatever the sin is that’s on our lives it needs to come out to get to heaven right? Imagine that Jesus is the AMAZING MIRACULOUS ERASER, which not only erases out the small smudges and lead pencil marks but can rub out all of the massive black blobs that are there. There is actually no sin that Jesus can’t rub out and get rid of. Through his death, Jesus got rid of them all!!! How absolutely excellent is that?!?? 2 Corinthians 5:21 says that “God put the wrong on him, Jesus, who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.” 1 Peter 3:18 says that “Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.” Believing in Jesus, the amazing and miraculous eraser, is what makes me a Christian. Jesus is the reason why I get up in the morning, why I know that I am going to get eternal life after I die from this earth, and he is the reason why I am making this podcast. I believe in the fact that Jesus died for me and it has changed everything about my life! Discussion Questions: Imagine getting into trouble at school and being given a detention but one of your friends works out a way for you to play and says that they would like to do your detention for you. How would you feel? Chat about the worst sins you can think of and talk about whether you think God is capable of forgiving them. Contact… Facebook: @thewordonthestreetpodcast Instagram: @thewordonthestreetpodcast website: thewordonthestreetpodcast.com

This episode is called Black, and I think you will know what I am talking about with this one. SIN. Sin is the thoughts and actions and not doing things too, that goes against what God wants us to do. It is kind of like being naughty, but when you are at home and you’re naughty and get into trouble that is because you are doing thinks your parents don’t want you to do. Sin is doing things God doesn’t want you to do, whether it is on purpose or even if it is an accident. Adam and Eve did this in the Garden of Eden and we do it all the time. We all sin, every single person in the world, I know because it says so in the bible, in Romans 3:23 it says, “ALL HAVE SINNED.” The sin is a bit like drawing on paper. Think about a fresh, clean sheet of white paper, without any smudges or wrinkles or drawing on it. It is perfect, a bit like people when God first created them. Now imagine a big black marker drawing all over it, creasing it and putting holes in it. That marker is the sin. The paper is no longer perfect, just like when people sin, we are no longer perfect and holy either. Even if the marker only did one small dot, it still wouldn’t be perfect. Some people do heaps of sinning and other people do only a bit, but just one tiny sin is enough to stop us from being perfect and holy for God. Sin is not just like a little hiccup - it is a MASSIVE problem. It is ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT that God does not have any sin in Heaven or in Him.  In the Bible Isaiah the prophet says in Isaiah 59:2, “Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God.”  Adam and Eve just did one small thing and no longer could they hang out with God in the Garden of Eden. They actually had to leave the garden and go and find their own food and water and shelter. God made them clothes from animal fur and was really sad to have to punish them. When God hears that his people have disobeyed him, he does the same as what any parent does when their kids do the wrong thing - he gives them a punishment. For example, the snake gets his legs taken off him, Adam and all men will have to work hard to get food and women will have to go through pain in childbirth. What happens when you do the wrong thing? What happens when we sin against God? We can't spend eternal life with God in Heaven when we die! We will have to go to a place without God, a place we often call Hell. After sin came into the world it meant that life can never go back to how it was in the Garden of Eden, into that perfect, holy life with God. Sin is a BIG DEAL. It is a huge problem for God and for all of us, his creation, his creatures. It is such a massive problem that it is needed to be talked about.  I can't just leave it there on such a negative note, so I will let you know that there is good news - God has already worked out a way to get rid of this sin that separates us from him! Discussion Questions: How do you think Adam and Eve felt when God turned up after they had sinned and eaten the fruit? Do you think you would have eaten the fruit if you were there? Is there something you do that makes God sad that you find really hard not to do? If you want to you can pray about that now and ask him to help you!

One thing that happened at the end of each day of creating was, “God looked at what he had done and saw that it was good.” At the end of all of his creating, at the end of the 6th day Genesis 1:31 says, “God looked at what he had done. All of it was VERY good!” When someone asks you how you are, or how was your day, what do you say? GOOD! Sometimes we say it so often that we don’t even think about the real answer and we don’t even mean it. But when God looked at what he had done and saw that it was good, he wasn’t talking about GOOD in the same way we talk about Good. He was referring to his creation being perfect. As being untainted. His creation could not get any better! Have you worked out why this episode is called “White”? It is because fresh snow, or clean white paper is a bit like what it was like in the beginning - perfectly clean and holy, everything was good, just as God wanted it to be. God especially wanted a perfect friendship with people, with us, and it was in the Garden of Eden that the friendship was perfect. When someone asks you how you are, or how was your day, what do you say? GOOD! Sometimes we say it so often that we don’t even think about the real answer and we don’t even mean it. But when God looked at what he had done and saw that it was good, he wasn’t talking about GOOD in the same way we talk about Good. He was referring to his creation being perfect. As being untainted. His creation could not get any better! When I try to explain to my kids how much God loves them, I really struggle, because it is just so so so much!!! And when I say that he loves them even more than I do, I don’t want them to think that I mustn’t love them very much. But God actually loves you more than your parents. In fact, it was God who decided he was going to make you before he even created the world, and it was God who decided who your parents were going to be! Crazy huh?! I know that it is hard to believe, especially when your parents tell you that they love you to infinity, or as far as the moon and around the stars. But remember, God made those stars, and he is massive so that means that he is able to love in a MASSIVE way! So why would God create you and love you so much? Because he wants to have a friendship with you. One where he can hang out with you all day every day and you will never have to be lonely. He wants to hang out with you in the same way that he hung out with Adam and Eve in the garden - perfectly and without sin. Tune in to hear more about why God thought his creation was GOOD! Discussion Questions: What is God like? Discuss all of God’s attributes that you can think of with your family. God doesn’t love you because you are good at soccer or swimming, or because you are kind. Talk together about the reason why God loves you. What do you think you could do that would stop God from loving you? About me… My name is Anna Ware and I am a mother, wife and teacher and I have a passion for explaining biblical concepts to children. I love camping, swimming, running, reading and chocolate and I pray that I can help parents to have the courage to engage with their kids in the big conversations. Contact… Facebook: @thewordonthestreetpodcast Instagram: @thewordonthestreetpodcast website: thewordonthestreetpodcast.com

Hello and welcome! We are going to cover the gospel first, and I have always understood the gospel easily using the Jesus Colours, or the Colours of Life - Green, white, black, red and yellow. I find it is easier to remember what I believe and easier to explain by using these colours, and I am hoping that you will find it all easier to remember by using these colours too! Have you ever created something AWESOME? Every single kids bible I have ever read starts with God’s creation, and goes through each of the days and what God created and when. If you’ve ever read it, you will know that the world was created in 7 days, although on the last day technically he rested. On the other days he created the land, the water, the plants, the planets and all the animals in the water, the sky and on the land. And finally he created us - people! The first 7 verses of the whole Bible go like this: Genesis 1:1-7 In the beginning God created the heavens  and the earth. The earth was barren,  with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean  covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God  was moving over the water. God said, “I command light to shine!” And light started shining. God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness and named the light “Day” and the darkness “Night.” Evening came and then morning—that was the first day. God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.” And that’s what happened. God made the dome and named it “Sky.” Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.” And it keeps going like this until he had created everything!!! How powerful is God?! He created all these things with just his voice! AMAZING! God designed the whole world intricately, down to every detail! He is super powerful and he is awesomely creative! We know that because we can read it later on in the bible, in Romans 1:20, where the apostle Paul says, "God’s eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made.” Have you worked out why this first part of the gospel is green? Yes, because a lot of what God created is green - the leaves, grass, bushes. When we think of nature, we typically think green, and so that is the colour that can help us remember this section! In every episode, I am going to finish up with some questions. It’d be awesome to hear some of your answers, so if you’re keen to share what you come up with, pop on over to our facebook group or Instagram to join in the conversation! So here are the questions, I won't play thinking music for you, you can remember them or you can pause me after I’ve asked each one then hit play again when you're ready for the next one! Discussion Questions: Have you ever created anything that you were so proud of and loved so much? What is one of your favourite things that God created? Why is important to believe that God is the creator? Contact… Facebook: @thewordonthestreetpodcast Instagram: @thewordonthestreetpodcast Website: thewordonthestreetpodcast.com