QUEST: Preschool Lesson for November 15
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Chapter 8: The Girl No One Wanted, p. 70
This week’s Big Idea:
God often does amazing things through those who are unloved, unwanted, unattractive, and unpopular.
This week’s Key Verse:
Genesis 50:20
QUEST: Outdoor Service for November 8
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Soul, Lesson 3
LESSON 3: THE GOAL OF THE SOUL
What Is the Goal of the Soul?
Our souls were built for relationship with God. That relationship once founded in Christ, can either be cultivated or neglected. Remember back to your childhood for a moment. When you learned to turn cartwheels or dive headfirst into the pool, did you shout, “Daddy! Look at me”? How about when you got good grades, your first job, or got engaged? In a healthy father-child relationship it is natural to want to please Dad. How much more so our perfect heavenly Father? Cultivating our relationship with God means aiming to please him out of love, not obligation. When we love God with our soul we are pleased to please Him. Take a nice slow read of the following two passages and then prayerfully reflect on how we can help the kids cultivate their soul relationship with the Father.
QUEST: Preschool Lesson for November 8
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Chapter 7: The Present, p. 62
This week’s Big Idea:
God provides a substitute. He provided Jesus for us!
This week’s Key Verse:
Genesis 15:6
Awana Message for November 1
QUEST: Clubhouse Service for November 1
QUEST: Preschool Lesson for November 1
This week’s reading from the Jesus Storybook Bible:
Chapter 6: Son of Laughter, p. 56
This week’s Big Idea:
We can believe God even when it seems impossible.
This week’s Key Verse:
Genesis 15:6
Awana Message for October 25
QUEST: Outdoor Service for October 25
Family Quest: Extreme Makeover, Spiritual Edition – Soul, Lesson 2
LESSON 2: SOUL MATE
Who Is Your Soul Mate?
Who is your favorite person to be with? Who is your soul mate? If you could, would you spend every free moment with that person? I have often asked my children, usually when I am frustrated by their lack of time in the Word, if they truly love God. Of course their answer is, “yes.” I usually follow up that question with something like this, “Do you find it strange that you spend so little time with someone who you claim to love above all others?” It’s a great question, but one that rightly should be turned back on myself. David wrote, “My soul thirsts for you, the living God.” Wow! What makes David different from many of us? Is it that we don’t thirst? I don’t believe so. Our souls do thirst and so do the souls of the children we minister to. What made David a man after God’s own heart was that he recognized what, or better, who, would quench his thirst.