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We’ve been looking at the story of the Lost (or Prodigal) Son. This is found in Luke’s Gospel (15:11-31), and you can find the pictures I used here.

Here’s some of your work:

The elder son:

The father (notice his radiating heart):

We even had a poem!

Megan also wrote something in her book defining love: “Love is caring about someone so much that nothing else matters and you would do anything for them”. I think that hits the nail on the head when it comes to looking at Christian ideas of love. Christians understand God to be like the father in the story - even though his children may go off and squander everything given to them they are still welcomed back with open arms and a party when they decide to return.

Today we looked at the story of Lazarus and what that told us about who Jesus was.

It’s not just about a dead man coming back to life, but showing that Jesus was the son of God and had God’s authority over life and death. It also shows the very human side of Jesus (he wept with the others).

You produced some interviews with characters in the story and we read some out; one involved “Four bleeps and a piano”! There was some great work so I had to give out loads of merits…

Homework is here.

This is due for the next lesson (24th February)…

Ask two different people what love is, write down their response and bring it to the next lesson.

Make sure it’s two different people. Perhaps someone at home, a friend, a grandparent, the postman?

Today we looked at how Jesus might be the Son of God as well as the Son of Man.

We started by thinking about symbolism - how one thing can point to another. Then we looked at some symbolic art, such as Rubens Adoration of the Magi (found in King’s College Chapel):

or Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity:

Then you created your own piece of art showing the nativity scene.