Overcome Evil with Good – Romans 7 – 16

Free resources from church websites to help you teach the doctrine and principles found in this week’s Come, Follow Me New Testament reading for Romans 7 – 16. Find helps for children, youth, and adults!

Everyone

Activity – “Pillow Tower of Doom.” Use this activity from the new Ensign series “Family Study Fun” to demonstrate how Christ can help us feel God’s love.

Video – Looking Through Windows – We should be careful how we judge others, as we may be looking at them through our own “unclean windows.”

Children

My Heavenly Father loves me.

Activity – I am a Child of Heavenly Parents – coloring page

Activity – I am My Heavenly Father’s Child – coloring page

Activity – A Child of God – This activity allows children to create faces with different eyes, noses, and mouths.

Activity – I am a Child of God – Color by Number

Activity/Article – I am a Child of God – Learn what it means to be a Child of God. Make a Child of God crown frame.

Activity/Article – I Know Heavenly Father Loves Me – A printable “I am a child of God” picture frame.

Faith comes by hearing the word of God.

Activity – Fighting off Falsehoods – Practice battling Satan’s lies with Heavenly Father’s truths by matching each falsehood with a truth.

I can say thank you to those who help me.

Activity – Blessing Quest – Friend readers share photos of things they are grateful for.

Activity/Article – Grateful No Matter What – Dieter F. Uchtdorf teaches about gratitude. Includes a matching activity.

Story – The Gratitude Goal – Kate, whose favorite scripture story is about the ten lepers, remembers to say thank you to the coach when she tries out for a soccer team.

Heavenly Father wants me to prepare to receive all that He has.

Activity/Article – The T-E-S-T – A message along with the accompanying lion craft activity, to talk about how God helps us face our challenges.

Activity/Article – Worthy of the Temple – Children learn about the process to enter the temple and the importance of being prepared and how the bishop can help. Includes an activity to make a craft of a bishop opening a door.

Story – Don’t Delay – President Henry B. Eyring discusses the importance of preparing every day to do the right thing.

“Let us not … judge one another.”

Activity/Article – Parable of the Dandelion – Dieter F. Uchtdorf shares a story about a man seeing a dandelion in someone else’s yard. Includes an activity to learn a scripture about not judging others.

Story – Feeling the Spirit part 1; Feeling the Spirit part 2 – Heber J. Grant shares an experience where he learned not to judge someone because of the way they speak.

Youth and Adults

Article – Phebe – Learn more about this member of the early Church, known for the help she gave Paul.

Teaching Resources – Come Follow Up: Romans 7 – 16 – Artwork, quotes, and video clips to aid teachers in leading the discussion for this lesson.

Those who follow the Spirit can become “joint-heirs with Christ.”

Article – The Music of the Gospel – The music of the gospel is the joyful spiritual feeling that comes from the Holy Ghost. It brings a change of heart.

The gift of eternal glory far outweighs my trials on earth.

Article – “Be at Peace When Your Life Is in Pieces.” This New Era article offers seven tips for finding peace during difficult times.

Article – Worthy of Our Promised Blessings – A vision of our Father’s incredible promised blessings must be the central focus before our eyes every day.

Article – “He That Shall Endure unto the End, the Same Shall Be Saved.” – Let us be faithful to what we have believed and know.

Paul invites me to become a true Saint and follower of Jesus Christ.

Article – “Study the Savior’s Words.” In this New Era article, President Russell M. Nelson explains how studying the Savior’s words in the scriptures can help us come to know and become like Him.

Article – The Challenge to Become – In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.

Article – Agency and Accountability – Which wolf will you feed?

Video – Nothing Can Separate – (Romans 8:38-39) Gordon B. Hinckley speaks about how we can never be separated from God’s love. 

Video – Armour of Light – (Romans 13:11-14) Robert D. Hales talks about putting on the Armour of Light and casting off the works of darkness.

All of God’s commandments are fulfilled in the commandment to love.

Article – Choosing Charity: That Good Part – I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.

Video – Love Your Neighbor – (Romans 14:10-12) Russell M. Nelson speaks about loving our neighbors. 

Video – Serving for the Right Reasons – (Romans 16:18) Dallin H. Oaks talks about serving for the right reason. 

“Let us not … judge one another.”

Article – The Merciful Obtain Mercy – When our hearts are filled with the love of God, we become “kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving.”

Adults

Article – Meeting the Challenges of Today – A BYU Devotional by Neal A. Maxwell “The combined doctrine of God’s foreknowledge and of foreordination is one of the doctrinal roads least traveled by, yet these clearly underline how very long and how perfectly God has loved us and known us with our individual needs and capacities.”

Article – Paul’s Use of Old Testament Scripture – BYU Religious Studies

Article – Roman Law Relating to the New Testament – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – Premortal Existence, Foreordinations, and Heavenly Councils – BYU Religious Studies Center

Video – Come Follow Up: Romans 7 – 16 – Come Follow Up host Ben Lomu leads the discussion with gospel scholar Jennifer Lane and special guest Matthew Wickman on the following topics: Those Who Follow the Spirit Can Become “Joint-Heirs with Christ” and Principles of True Discipleship.  BYUtv

Video – The Acts to Revelation: Rom. 8-12: “Joint-heirs with Christ” – Religious scholars discuss Paul’s teaching of how we become joint heirs with Christ in the kingdom of God as well as the law of election as found in Romans chapters 8 through 12.