QUEST: Outdoor Service for October 11
QUEST: Outdoor Service for October 4
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Heart, Lesson 3
LESSON 3: MY GIFT OF LOVE
Loving God Is My Gift to Him
“So what’s on your heart this week?” Hopefully you have taken some time during our study to reflect on how to use your interests and passions for God. But what about when you see things in yourself that fall short of God’s standard? Do we assume we’re a lost cause and of no use to God? We cannot hide our good qualities or our failures from Him. He “alone knows every human heart” (1 Kings 8:39). But be of good cheer, the ungodly things I find in my heart bring me to Him in a special way, a humble way. I wish I could bring to Him a Great Commandment Christian-fully assembled and ready to serve, but I came broken and, though I’m not a slave to sin, my flesh still fights against my makeover. When I recognize this and grieve my sin then I am in a position for God to transform my heart. Yes, it’s uncomfortable, but the Lord promises that He is near to the brokenhearted.
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This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Chapter 3, The Terrible Lie (p. 28-35)
This week’s Big Idea:
Even though we don’t always love God, He always loves us. God has a plan to solve the problem of sin, and His plan is Jesus.
This week’s Key Verse:
Genesis 6:5
QUEST: Outdoor Service for September 27
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Heart, Lesson 2
LESSON 2: GOD’S GIFT OF WISDOM
Wisdom – God’s Operating System for Your Heart
About two years ago I started using a Mac laptop instead of my old PC. One thing that prompted that switch was the problems I was having with viruses on my PC. As it turns out, the Mac operating system is much less prone to virus problems. It does a better job on its own, without the expense of extra virus protection services, of keeping out unwanted and damaging material that could slow down or freeze up my machine.
Last week we talked about the good passions and desires that God has put in our hearts, let’s call them the pre-loaded software. We also talked about guarding our hearts from storing up ungodly things, let’s call them malware or viruses.
Download Lesson 2QUEST: Preschool Service for September 27
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Chapter 2, The Song of Creation p. 18-27
This week’s Big Idea:
God created everything and it was good
This week’s Key Verse:
Genesis 1:1
QUEST: Preschool Service for September 20
QUEST: Outdoor Service for September 20
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Heart, Lesson 1
LESSON 1: START WITH YOUR HEART
For an Extreme Makeover: Start with a Heart Check
When Jesus gave the greatest commandment, He was responding to a scribe who was asking the most important question for someone who believes in the all-powerful God of the Bible. What does God want from me? Jesus was glad to answer. He quoted from Deuteronomy 6:5. The answer was simple but profound…if you want to know what God really wants from you, the answer is love – practical, everything I have and am, love – and it starts with your heart.
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