October 12th, 2025
Recap: Sunday October 12th, 2025
STORY 5: A Table and a Tower (Genesis 10-11)
*Continue the conversation at home reading through Genesis 10 & 11 and going through The Biggest Story Family Devotional that corresponds with Story 5!
Big Picture: The Bible shares a story about how God created the nations, gave people different languages, and scattered them around the world. It might sound like a fun story. But it’s actually another sad story. Or, it starts fun and ends sad. It starts with God’s image bearers’ keeping God’s command to be fruitful and multiply (start lots of families!). But it ends with God’s image bearers’ wanting to make themselves as great as God, instead of showing how great God is. (From The Biggest Story Curriculum)
Big Truth: People wanted to be great, but only God is great.
Memory Verse: “Its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:9)
Extension Activities:
Babel Confusion: Each child was given a colored popsicle stick. Then, by only saying their color they had to find their “tribe” This related back to the Tower of Babel story, emphasizing the confusion, the scattering, and the separation of the people due to the language barrier.
Babel Cup Tower Challenge: Each group worked together to build the tallest tower they could using plastic cups, paper cups and wooden craft sticks to complete their challenge. They had to use clear communication to work together!
Resources for Parents about Genesis:
Does your child have questions about some of the topics brought up in Genesis? Unsure how to answer those in a way that is age appropriate?
“Christians are counter-cultural: our primary goal should not be to raise intelligent, successful, competent, and upright citizens, our primary concern ought to be for the good of our children's souls - and so for God's glory.
Teaching our children the Scriptures in a compelling, relevant, and holistic manner during daily family worship is one of the chief means we can achieve this. If you need help to do that - this is the series for you! It's a comprehensive guide for the entire family and particularly children between the ages of 5-12.”
Beginning: Family Worship in Genesis By Joel R. Beeke & Nick Thompason is a great additional resource to The Biggest Story Family Devotional, diving deeper into specific questions and reflection throughout Genesis.
The Bible Project overview video on Genesis 1-11, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Genesis, God makes a good world and commissions humans to rule it, and then they give in to evil and ruin everything.
