Stay On Course With God

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Stay On Course With God

Elementary Class

June 16, 2024 • Jeremiah 29:11, Genesis 19

When you decide to follow God you receive an amazing gift! God's plan for your life! He has planned a course or path for you. Everyone is following a course whether they realize it or not. It's either their course or God's course for their life! Those who follow God's course do what he wants them to do. They live the way God would want them to live. It starts with reading one verse of the bible, and praying one prayer. Then you'll grow and read 2 verses and pray a little more. Until you are spending everyday with God. It doesn't mean you can't do cool stuff like being a doctor, actor, or even a rapper. It just means whatever we do. We make sure it lines up with what God wants. God wants you to love your neighbor. To bring people closer to Jesus. Above all else to seek God. If your following God you're on the right path! Remember Jesus loves you very much!
Our Memory Verse this week is:
“I know the plans I have for you... plans to give you a hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11

You Have No Right To Judge

August 4, 2024 • Matthew 7:1–5

Matthew 7:1-5 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." Being judgemental of others is something we all are tempted to do! Whether it's our friends, family, or the stranger on the street, we often can look at people and point out their faults. We can be quick to think negatively of them! Jesus teaches us not to be so quick to judge. To not judge unfairly because we will be judged the same way we judge others. What does that mean? Well, if we are harsh or mean, we will be judged harshly and mean. If we judge fairly and with grace we will be judged fairly and with grace. After all, we all have sinned. No one is better than anyone else. We all need Jesus and his loving kindness to help us to be more like him. Jesus goes on to say "first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." We need to focus on asking Jesus to help us with out faults and shortcomings before we start pointing out the faults in others. Jesus was talking to people who spent all their time thinking about what everyone else was doing wrong, and the whole time they pretended like they were perfect! We really need Jesus' help to accept the love he has for us and the love he has for others. It's important that we let Jesus teach us to see others the way he sees them. This week let's pray and ask Jesus to help us to love others, to be kind, and the ask for forgiveness of our own sin!

I Will Do My Best

June 13, 2024

Today we are learning about doing our best all the time, when you do your best, you will be pleasing God and win His approval. It's important to do your best not just when you want to but everywhere you go and to do your best all the time. Your best is just that - it is giving your best. It doesn't have to be the biggest our the greatest, just the best that you can do and that's all that Gods ask from you - to do your very best you can do your best at home, in your school, and obeying God when you do that you are honoring God and you are showing Him how much you love Him so do your best all the time! Are you good at home when someone is watching you? Are you good when the teacher is in the room? Really? OK, here is one more. Are you good in church when the leaders and the pastor are standing right in front of you? But let me ask you this, what about when no one is around watching you? Do you act differently? This can be tough because sometimes we think we can slide by without doing our best because there's no one there to see us. But you need to do your best at all times-whether someone is looking or whether someone will never see you or what you did. We want to do our best at ALL times. How many of you fold and put your clothes away in your drawers when your mom asks you to? Do you do it right away or do you put it off? Or maybe you just shove everything into your drawers thinking no one will see them. Do you think not doing something when you are told or doing it sloppily is doing your best? I don't think so. But what if you took your carefully folded clothes and put them away as soon as you were told? How do you think your mom would feel if she came into the room to remind you to put your clothes away only to discover you had already done it? I know my mom would start dancing. Doing the right thing without having to be told is one way of doing your best at all times. Now you may not think putting your clothes away when you are told or doing it neatly is a big deal. But when you make a habit of doing your best, it won't matter whether someone sees what you have done or not. You just want to do your best. Today when you go home, I want you to do something without anyone seeing you, like taking out the garbage or feeding the dog or cat. God loves to see you do your best, even if no one else sees you.

Seek God's Wisdom For Your Life

June 2, 2024 • Proverbs 3:15, 1 Kings 12

If you ask the average person what's the one thing they need more than anything else, you will get it narrowed down to a few things like money, food, a nice house, or family. All of these things a nice but they aren't the most important thing! God's wisdom is the most important thing we need. It keeps us on the right track and protects us from hurt. When we decide to live for God and study his word we have access to the creator of the universe who knows everything and in life when we have hard decisions to make he can guide us with his wisdom. God's wisdom always keeps us from making mistakes. It's like a stop sign that stops you before you crash. It can't make you stop, but we have to choose to obey it. In our bible lesson, King Rehoboam didn't listen to wise council and made a big mistake! We have to choose to obey God's wisdom, and to learn from God. God has an amazing plan for our lives, but we will never experience the fullness of that plan of we aren't seeking God's wisdom! Our Memory Verse this week is: “Wisdom is more precious than rubies." Proverbs 3:15