May 14 Lessons

9:00am DiscipleLand 

1st-2nd grade 

At Worship with God, Lesson 8-- Temple Worship

God's people exalted God by building a magnificent Temple in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 5-7--Solomon's Temple

God Is Spirit

Verse:

1 Corinthians 3:16

"Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?"

Focus:

~God is Spirit.

~King Solomon built a temple for God in Jerusalem.

~God's glory inhabited the Temple in a cloud and in fire.
~God's Spirit dwells in believers today.

Missionary Biography: The Saint Family--Steve's Waorani Name

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9:00am DiscipleLand

3rd-4th grade

Mighty Miracles: Lesson 11--Questions

Jesus demonstrated that faithfulness to God and family matters most.

Matthew 19

Verse:

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."--Matthew 19:26

Focus:

~God instructs His people to honor marriage as a lifetime commitment.
~God's kingdom belongs to those who have a childlike trust in Jesus.
~To follow Jesus, people must put Him first above all else.

Missionary Biography: John Stewart--Approved

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10:45am TRU

1st-4th grade10:45am TRU

Main Focus: Jesus Restores
Healing of the Blind Man

(John 9)

Anticipate: "Blind Collection"  

In today’s story, Jesus and his disciples encounter a blind man begging for money. Jesus showed this man love and respect by explaining that he was not blind due to his own sins. He then healed him by wiping mud and commanding him to wash it in the Pool of Siloam.

Worship with Youth Band

Game:Tasty but Messy

Memory Verse: 

“I am the resurrection and the life.  The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.”                                                   —John 11:25

Jesus met a man who was born blind.  Jesus restores this man not only physically, but also spiritually and socially.  Restoration means to take something or someone that's broken and fix it to its original state.  Jesus restores the blind man and reassures him that his blindness is to glorify God.  Yet the religious leaders choose only to accuse Jesus of working on the Sabbath day.  They've missed the joy of Jesus' restoration and the heart of God.   Jesus can restore our brokenness due to sin and give us eternal life in heaven where there's no more sickness, crying or dying.  Jesus restores.

Respond: "Tangram Puzzles" 

Jesus restored the blind man’s sight and brought the man into relationship with him. And today, God still restores us because He loves us. God wants His glory to be revealed through your life, and He will restore you. God created us to be in perfect relationship with Him. But all people sin. Even so, God wants to fully restore the relationship with Him and His people. Isn’t it amazing how God restores us? Even better, He restores each one of us so we can play a part in His story. We have roles in carrying out His plan to save and redeem the world. So we get to take part in God’s restoring too.

Bless:

Bless

“I am the resurrection and the life.  The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.”                                                   —John 11:25

May our children see God restore pieces of their own lives, and may they experience God's redeeming love.