Play: Beauty for Ashes

Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown with words and questions from the CTR 8 lesson “Beauty for Ashes”.

Forehead Guess

One player holds the screen up to their forehead, facing the class. Everyone else gives clues. Tap “Got it!” or “Pass” (or tip the screen down or up) before the timer runs out.

Scripture Showdown

8 questions from the lesson on one screen. Teams take turns, tap an answer and see why.

The words (19)

  • 🧔 Isaiah: Wrote the words Jesus read in Nazareth
  • 🏘️ Nazareth: The little town where Jesus grew up
  • 🕍 Synagogue: Where Jesus stood up to read on the Sabbath
  • 📜 Scroll: Rolled-up book Jesus unrolled to find Isaiah’s words
  • 📅 Sabbath: Isaiah said to call it a delight
  • 🍽️ Fasting: Going without food and drink to grow closer to God
  • 🍞 Bread: Isaiah said to share it with the hungry
  • 🧑‍💼 Bishop: Uses fast offerings to help people in need
  • 💵 Fast Offering: Money we give so hungry people can eat
  • 🌱 Watered Garden: Isaiah said we’d be like one when we fast and help
  • 🏺 Potter: Shapes clay into bowls and jars
  • 🧱 Clay: Soft stuff a potter shapes. Isaiah said it’s us!
  • 🔥 Ashes: Gray stuff left after a fire; sad people put it on their heads
  • 👑 Crown: Jesus gives beauty, like one of these, for ashes
  • 💔 Broken Heart: Jesus came to bind it up
  • ⛓️ Chains: Jesus came to set captives free from these
  • 🙈 Blind Man: Jesus helped people like him see again
  • 🌍 New Earth: Jesus will make one when He comes again
  • 🐺 Wolf and Lamb: Isaiah said they’ll eat together someday

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