QUEST: Preschool Lesson for May 16
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Daniel and the Scary Sleepover, p. 152
This week’s Big Idea:
God rescued Daniel and He has sent another to rescue us all!
This week’s Key Verse:
Jonah 2:9
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After you’ve read the story from the Jesus Storybook Bible, you can watch a special video lesson based on the book Jesus and the Lion’s Den to help your family recognize and see Jesus in the story of Daniel! Find it and a lesson guide here.
Interested in reading Jesus and the Lion’s Den? Stop by Sunday and check it out in the QUEST library!
QUEST: Clubhouse Service for May 9
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Salt and Light, Lesson 3
LESSON 3: “I WENT THE EXTRA MILE”
Several years ago I ran in the annual Army 10-Miler in DC. I signed up for 10 miles and I trained for 10 miles. What happened instead was a race diversion, because of a bomb scare, and I, along with 20,000 other runners, ended up going 11.5 miles. When asked to run 10 we ran 11.5 instead. Ok. That’s not exactly what Jesus was talking about in His most famous sermon (Matt 5). So what was He getting at? Love your enemies, do good to those who persecute you, if someone forces you to go a mile, go with him two miles. Say what? This is crazy talk, Jesus. That’s just not feasible. He clearly hasn’t kept up with the latest personal assertiveness seminars. Get ahead by standing up for yourself. That’s the American way.
We started out this section looking at how we can love our neighbors in the family, and in the church. Most recently, as we discussed our neighbor in the world, we first looked at the sinner and then the defenseless. So far so good.
Download Salt and Light, Lesson 3QUEST: Preschool Lesson for May 9
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
A Dream of Heaven, p. 342
This week’s Big Idea:
Jesus will return one day to make everything new.
This week’s Key Verse:
Revelation 21:3-4
QUEST: Clubhouse Service for May 2
QUEST: Preschool Lesson for May 2
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
God Sends Help, p. 326
This week’s Big Idea:
When we meet and follow Jesus, we are changed.
This week’s Key Verse:
John 3:16
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Salt and Light, Lesson 2
LESSON 2: THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS OF THE LAW
“You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.” – Jesus the Christ
Think back to your days on the school yard. What was the law of the jungle? The weak kid, the overweight kid, the kid dressed poorly, the different kid, was ignored at best and in many cases the object of abuse. If you’re like me you might be feeling some shame right now as you think back on those times. Good. Now let’s help our children be “other than” when it comes to their treatment of the defenseless and needy.
Download Salt and Light, Lesson 2BABY QUEST: May Lessons
Baby QUEST is Reston Bible Church’s ministry to the youngest members of our Body.
Each month, we will feature a guide for your family to use with children ages 0-2. The guide includes follow up activities, a craft or sensory activity, recommended reading, a song, and other tips that are uniquely tailored to the development of infants and toddlers.
The guide follows the themes we are teaching in our nursery classes, giving you an opportunity to connect and reinforce the ideas taught at home. Because children this age need repetition, each activity can be done multiple times throughout the month to continue to press it upon your child’s memory as they grow!
This month, we’re focusing on the Creation story. Children will learn to identify God as the Creator and different things He created in the world around them–including themselves!
Big Idea:
God Made Everything!
Scripture Focus:
Genesis 1-2
QUEST: Clubhouse Service for April 25
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Salt and Light, Lesson 1
LESSON 1: BEING DOCTORS WHO MAKE HOUSE CALLS
What if Jesus had stayed in the temple courts or the synagogue teaching? What if He never ventured out into the community, never called old Zach down from the tree, never ate with tax collectors and sinners, never touched the sick and hurting? Why don’t doctors make house calls these days? I’m not sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if suddenly people stopped going to a doctors office or hospital when they were ill?
What if they thought that was the last place to go to be healed? How long would it take for the docs to begin making house calls again? Not long I suspect. Is the church today, the body of Christ the great Physician, staying in the hospital building waiting for the sick to show up? Or, worse yet, staying in the hospital talking about the remedy but secretly hoping that the sick stay away?
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