What the verses say: 1. God picks you from the patch and brings you in. (John 15:16) John 15:16 English Standard Version (ESV) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FatherContinue reading “Children’s Church, Oct. 11th”
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The door
Knock on the pew to represent knocking on a door. These pictures are black and white so that colors aren’t the first thing you see. *For the lesson, I printed them in black and white. Show children the picture of a normal door. Then show them the picture of Jesus standing at the door. OtherContinue reading “The door”
Human mess
The person I was yesterday, I am not today. Jesus has given me the opportunity through grace, to change who I was and who I will become. We learn. We grow. We change. We overcome. Walking in the foot steps of Christ is hard. I stumble: I make snap judgments.Continue reading “Human mess”
What did you say?
Acts 17:23 “For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an alter with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.” When I was in college, we HAD to take Old and New Testament. One semester of each. There was no getting around it.Continue reading “What did you say?”
The Book of Jonah
*Author’s note: I’d like to thank Michael Raven for being my sounding board. Check out his blog at https://ravensweald.com. This post isn’t to cause you to question your Faith. I hope it helps you remove the splinter from your own eye before you call out someone else. Matt 7:5 The book of Jonah Who wasContinue reading “The Book of Jonah”
Church, A School of Love
Part 4 Thirty-three The majority of religious scholars agree that Jesus was thirty-three when he died on the cross. Aaron was now thirty-three. He felt a need to find a church. He decided he would try a different church every week until he found one. Week one: This church was nice enough. But NO ONEContinue reading “Church, A School of Love”
Church, A School of Love
Part 3 Twenty-two As soon as Aaron could, he ran to college and never went back. During holidays or summer break, he made excuses to his aunt about not coming to her house. Studying. Work. He didn’t care what the lie was. Most of all, no church. He met a sweet young lady and wasContinue reading “Church, A School of Love”
Church, A School of Love
Part 2 Sixteen Aaron’s grandma died and he was boxed off to his aunts. He remembered standing over his grandmas casket. All he saw was that clown face from when he was six. It took every ounce of strength he had not to ask his aunt to make sure she was really dead? Maybe whenContinue reading “Church, A School of Love”
Church, A School of Love
Part 1 Matthew 21: 12 “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you makeContinue reading “Church, A School of Love”
Thankful Thursday
Recently, I listened to Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac. At the end of the book Mr. Chidiac encourages his listeners to be “thankful for you”. Undercover Publishing House 2025 I grew up in a household where you DID NOT brag on yourself. Being thankful for you might be viewed as bragging? ThereContinue reading “Thankful Thursday”
