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.