Cooking Up Truths from God’s Word 🍽️🥄
The kitchen is full of powerful teaching tools! From salt reminding us to be the “salt of the earth” to a paper towel illustrating how we soak up what we’re around, everyday kitchen items can bring faith lessons to life. Turn ordinary utensils into extraordinary spiritual insights!



Object Lesson: Styrofoam cup

Devotion: Imagine holding a simple Styrofoam cup in your hands. This seemingly ordinary object is lightweight, disposable, and easily crushed. It’s often used for temporary purposes like holding…

Surprising Protection

IllustrationTake a napkin, wad it up, and place it inside a cup. Turn the cup upside down and slowly lower it into a large bowl of water. Then pull it out and show the students that the napkin inside…

Gentle Walk Devotion

IllustrationGive two volunteers wooden spoons and eggs (real or fake). Have them carefully walk from the starting point to a marker and back, balancing the egg on the spoon. The goal isn’t speed, but…

Clean on the Outside, Dirty on the Inside

Illustration Ask: “Who would like a drink of Dr. Pepper (or chocolate milk or another favorite drink)?” Call up a volunteer. Then show them a cup that looks clean on the outside but is dirty or…

My friend escaped jail by wrapping his face with a whole roll of paper towels.  Now there’s a Bounty on his head.

Paper towels are designed to absorb. Whether it’s a spill on the counter or water on your hands, they soak up whatever they touch. But if you use one to clean up something dirty, it…

Have you heard about the new broom? 

It’s sweeping the nation. New trends and ideas sweep through our world all the time, grabbing attention for a season before fading away. But God’s renewal is not temporary—it is a complete…

Object Lesson: Coffee

Devotion: In many households, coffee is a staple of morning routines. It provides comfort, warmth, and a much-needed boost to start the day. Just as coffee is a familiar and essential part of our…

Recipe Book – Following God’s Instructions

Hold up a recipe book or show a printed recipe. Ask: What happens if you leave out an ingredient or mix things out of order? Chances are, the recipe won’t turn out the way it’s supposed to. Even one…

Paper towels: Absorbing the Right Things

Paper towels are designed to absorb. Whether it’s a spill on the counter or water on your hands, they soak up whatever they touch. But if you use one to clean up something dirty, it…

The Empty Spoon: Only Jesus Satisfies

A spoon is a useful tool, but by itself, it has no value. A spoon can’t satisfy hunger—it only carries the food that nourishes. In the same way, the world offers us an empty spoon—No amount of…