Building our Life on God's Word

Delaney and Amber help lead the kids in energetic worship:

POA kids engaged in worship:

We had 4 visitors in KC this week!

Our lesson this week dealt with making good choices and the importance of building our lives on the foundational truths in God's Word. Sister Dawn's object lesson helped get things started.

Chris volunteered to help out. He was given a choice - he could have either a Reese's Peanut Butter cup or a jar of baby food prunes to try out. Well, he chose the prunes (yes, we put him up to it!), took a bite and immediately regretted his decision!

I guess they didn't taste that great!

From this lesson, she reminded the kids that we all have choices like this every day. And to some of us, it seems like such an easy choice to follow Jesus - like picking the Reese's. But, many people choose the hard way and then have to live with the consequences from those decisions.

For our next object lesson, Brother Mark and Sister T showed us an example of the 2 men from the Bible - one built his house on sand and the other on a rock. He took some army guys and glued them to a concrete block and then put some in a container full of sand. The interesting thing is that most of the kids truly thought that it would be silly to build a house on sand. At first, they just didn't understand. But, when we discussed the storms of life that come and then demonstrated by pouring water on our 2 examples, they quickly understood. The men on the block did not fall...

but those on the sand drowned!

We then discussed how our lives are the same way. We can choose to build our lives on the solid rock of God's Word or on the sinking sands of this world, but only one is going to stand when the storms come.

Further examples! Caleb and Brother Mark were each given 15 cups. Sister Tammy gave them instructions to follow using the cups. If they followed the directions, they would make something in the end. Well, Caleb did exactly what he was told to do while Brother Mark ignored the directions:

In the end, Caleb made a pyramid out of his cups, but Brother Mark had nothing to show for his time.

We each have the opportunity to hear God's Word to us, but we each have to decide for ourselves whether or not we will follow the instructions that He has given us. He wrote His Word as a life manual for us to guide through every path our life takes us down - it is up to us to chose to obey!

We pray that each child who comes each week has a desire to follow Jesus no matter what direction their life takes them down.