May 15th Lessons

9:00am DiscipleLand

1st-2nd grade 
The Bible Tells Me So Lesson 8--—#7 Keep Marriage Holy

God's View of Marriage –Hosea 1-3
The LORD God commands husbands and wives to be faithful to their promise to God in marriage.

Verse: 

“You shall not  commit adultery."—Exodus 20:14

Focus:

~God requires people to remain faithful to their marriage vows.
~The marriage vow is a promise to be faithful to God and to the spouse.

~The marriage relationship represents God's relationship to His people. 

Missionary Biography 2: Adoniram and Ann Judson—The Zayat

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9:00am DiscipleLand

3rd-4th grade 

Valiant Voyagers Lesson 10—Shipwreck!

Acts 27

 The Holy Spirit delivers believers from harm in order to achieve His purposes.

Verse: 
“He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.
Let him deliver him,    since he delights in him.”--Psalm 22:8

Focus:

~A great storm threatened Paul's ship while Paul was taken to Rome as a prisoner.
~An angel reassured Paul that everyone on board would safely reach Rome.
~As the ship was breaking up, Paul instructed the crew to safety.

Missionary Biography: George Mueller—Ashley Downs

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10:45am TRU

1st-4th grade

Main Focus: God Is Gracious

Parable of the Workers in the Field

(Matthew 20:1-16)

Anticipate: Making Money

All the stories or parables we have been studying are teaching us about who God is and what is important to Him. Sometimes it is easy to forget that money isn’t what God’s focuses upon. At the end of the day, money is just paper and you can make it yourself!  But what we need to remember is that God’s values are not the same as the world’s values and money is less important to Him than our hearts and minds and souls.

Worship with Singing: led by Youth Band

Memory Verse: 

"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
    therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
    Blessed are all who wait for him!"--Isaiah 30:18

In today’s Big God Story, Jesus tells the parable of the workers hired to work in a vineyard. The landowner, who represents God, gave the same amount of money to those who started to work at the beginning of the day as he did to those who started at the end of the day. The early workers didn’t think this was fair even though they received exactly what the vintner promised them when they were hired.  God is gracious.  Though His grace does not always look like what we would expect, He offers grace to everyone.

Respond: Trading Post
When we seek fairness in this world, we will be disappointed.  But God is gracious.  He offers grace to everyone.  
Bless: 

Ephesians 2:8–10:

It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God … For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

May our children see God’s graciousness in their lives. May they notice the ways He shows love and kindness to them.