Sunday, June 15, 2008

FAITH WITHOUT DEEDS!
As Christians, we believe in God and that He sent His Son, Jesus, down to earth to be our Saviour. Jesus loves us, died for us, and gives us eternal life in heaven when we give our lives to Him. A simple way of saying this is to say that we have FAITH in God and His son, Jesus. But what does the word DEEDS mean? A deed is something that we do. Remember that in James 1:22, we learned the verse, “Do not merely listen to the word…Do what it says.” What would you do if you saw someone get hurt? You would try to help them or go find someone else that could. What would you do if someone needed clothes or food? You would find them some clothes to wear and food to eat, or you would earn money to buy these things for them. When you have faith you should be “doers” of God’s word, because in James 2:20 we read, “…faith without deeds is useless.” As Christians, our faith is made complete by what we do!!!

THIS WEEKS MEMORY VERSE
“…faith without deeds is useless." (James 2:20)

Sunday, June 8, 2008

WHO GETS THE BIGGEST PIECE?
Read this story and see if the teacher is being fair. One day, a child brought a delicious cake to share with his classmates. The teacher had to cut the cake into
enough pieces to share with the whole class. She cut the cake into twenty pieces because that was how many children were in the class. However, the teacher did not do a very good job and there were some pieces of cake that were bigger than the others. Who do you think should get the bigger pieces??? The boys? The girls? The tall children? The short children? The blondes? The ones with brown hair, red hair, or black hair? The answer is no one! Every child should get the same size piece or it would not be fair. The teacher has to treat all the children equally or she would be showing favoritism. This meant that she had to cut some of the cake pieces a little
bit smaller. The teacher did not show favoritism. She loved each one of the children in her class the same. In James 2: 1 we read, “…as believers in our glorious Jesus Christ, don’t show favoratism

THIS WEEKS MEMORY VERSE
“…don’t show favoritism." (James 2:1)

Sunday June 1, 2008

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

“Do not merely listen to the word …Do what it says.” (James 1: 22) That sounds pretty simple. We just have to read God’s word and follow what it says. BUT… this is actually not always easy to do. Would you want to be nice to someone who doesn’t share, who is mean to you, or who steals your food? NO! But God’s word tells us to “love your neighbor as yourself”. (Matthew 22.38) We are to show God’s love and the light of Christ to everyone we meet. That reminds of the words to a song, “They will know we are Christians by our love”. Some days we will forget to show our love to others, but we can pray for forgiveness and try to do better the next day. We will never be perfect, yet we can always try to do the best we can. In James 1: 19-27, God’s word has another few lessons for us. We are to “be quick to listen”, “slow to speak”,and “slow to become angry.” Let’s challenge ourselves this week to do what God’s word says!

THIS WEEKS MEMORY VERSE:
“Do not merely listen to the word… do what it says.” (James 1:22)