December 04 Lessons

9:00am DiscipleLand 

1st-2nd grade 
At Work with God Lesson 2--Farmer
God cares for His children just as a farmer patiently watches over and takes care of the young plants. 

King 19:19-21; Mark 4:3-20 (Elisha and the Four Soils)
God Is Patient

Verse : 

Mark 4:8
"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times."

Focus:

~God is patient with His people.
~God called Elisha, the farmer, to be a prophet.
~When people's hearts are good soil for God's Word, they will produce good fruit.  

Missionary Biography: Gladys Aylward--Train Through Siberia

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9:00am DiscipleLand

3rd-4th grade 

Amazing Words Lesson 2—God's Kingdom

Matthew 6
God rewards those who do the right things for the right reasons.

Verse: 

Matthew 6:33
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

Focus:

~God rewards those who do the right things for the right reasons.
~God will give those who seek His Kingdom all they ever need.
~As God's people, we can trust God instead of worrying about things.

Missionary Biography: Jackie Pullinger—The Walled City

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10:45am TRU

1st-4th grade

Main Focus: God Claims His People
Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 19-21; 24)

Anticipate: What Is It?

Its hard to figure out what a person is describing when they give you a few descriptive words or phrases. That is what the Israelites would have to do to figure out that Jesus was their Messiah. And only those who knew the prophecies and who had eyes and hearts opened to God ever figured it out.

Worship with Singing: led by Youth Band
Singing: Claim Your Shoe

Memory Verse: 

"For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."--Isaiah 9:6

To claim something is to say it belongs to you.  God claimed the Israelites to be His own, His children.  He gave them the 10 commandments so that they know how to live for God's special purposes.  God is claiming us to be His very own today.  He calls us His treasured possession and He desired for us to be set apart and live a life that's honoring Him.

Respond: Ornaments!

The Israelites had to put together lots of pieces of information to understand that Jesus was the Messiah. In the church we are also made up of a lot of different people from different backgrounds and with different personalities. Today we are going to create some Christmas Ornaments with lots of different things that make sense or are simply better and more beautiful when put together.  Have your heard it said “Jesus is the Reason for the Season?” This phrase reminds us the Christmas is about Jesus who is God’s greatest present to us!