Week 5 To The Depths

Main Point: was "I Will Listen and do What the Bible Says!

Read the Bible Passage from James 1:19-25.

Our Bible Story was from 2nd Kings chapters 22 and 23. When we hear God's Word, we need to do what is says.

This weeks memory verse is found in 2 Timothy 3:16. This verse tells us that Gods Word will tell us things to change in our lives.

This is an activity called Mirror, Mirror. You can do this at home to reinforce the topics in our lesson. After the children go to bed, cover up all the mirrors in the house. In the morning, wake everyone up and tell them they have to get dressed without using any mirrors. After they have struggled for a while let them uncover the mirrors and finish getting ready. Tell the family that Gods word is the mirror for our lives and it is just as important that we look into God's word each morning to correct our lives as it is for us to look onto a mirror in the morning to correct our appearance.

This activity is called "Rule Book". Buy a new board game that

your family is unfamiliar with. Get everyone to play the game, but don't read the rules first, just make them up. Keep changing the rules until everyone starts to get frustrated. Then pull out the rule book then read it and play it properly. Explain that the Bible is the rule book for our lives and that we should read it and do what it says.

Week 4 To The Depths

November 9th 2008
This Sunday our main point was "I Will Use My Words To Help Others"


The Bible Passage we used was from James 3:2-12.

Our Memory verse was found in Psalms 19:14 "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."

This week start out by reading the Bible Story to your children and try to explain some of the parts of the verse that they may not understand. Have your children stick out their tongue to show just how small it really is.

Sugar Cookies:

Make a batch of sugar cookies. When you are sprinkling the sugar on the cookies, cover some of the cookies with salt instead of sugar. Call the famioy together an let each one of them taste one of the cookies.
Read James 3:12 "Can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine produce figs? Does fresh water come from a well full of salt water?" Remind everyone that our words should please God and help others. Using hurtful words can ruin things, like putting salt on cookies instead of sugar. We should use helpful words that sound good, like sugar on cookies tasts good.

Card Barrage:

Send a Barrage of cards to someone in your family knows to say helpful and encouraging words. Make the cards together as a family, or buy some cards from the store that do not have a pre-printed message on them. Each person in the family should take a card and write or draw a special, helpful,encouraging message on it.