9-26-10: Lesson 8 - Love is not a feeling

Sermon Theme: Love is not a feeling
Bible Verse: Love never fails -1 Corinthians 13:8

Bible Story:

God doesn’t love us one day and then stop loving us the next day. He loves us unconditionally and that’s how he wants us to love other people. Today’s memory verse it says “Love never fails” That means unconditional. Love is not a feeling. God showed us what real love is. Real love is unconditional.
What is unconditional love mean? It means there is no condition when you love. Expecting nothing
Example: They don’t have to do anything to gain your love sometimes we often say “I’ll love you if you do this for me”
Today we are going to teach you that:
1) Love is an action
2) Love is seeing people the way God does
3) Love is a choice

The greatest act of love in history was when God loved us so much that He gave us his son Jesus to die for our sins. God didn’t just say He loved us. He showed us that he did.
Jesus didn’t go to those who follow the laws. But he went to love the sinners – the tax collectors, the prostitutes, the blind, the mute, the leopards, the crippled and so on. Those are the people who others find them hard to love.

It’s easy to love those who love you. Even sinners love those who loves them. You think Jesus would say OH GOOD JOB you love someone who loves you…well probably yes!
Jesus is saying how about if you lend someone something but you expect to get it back? Even sinners lend to sinners and expecting to get it back. –So basically he’s saying you expect them to show you love after you love them
But how about loving the ones who are hard to love?

9-19-10: Lesson 7 - Holding on to the promises of God

Sermon Theme: Holding on to the promises of God
Bible Verse: “We can be sure that God will give us everything He has promised us”. -2 Corinthians 1:22
Bible Story: How Abraham hold on to God’s promises (Genesis 12-15)

God gave Abraham everything He promised him. Not only was Abraham a blessed man, but Jesus was one of Abraham’s descendants. When Jesus died on the cross for our sins, all of the nations of the earth were blessed because of Him. All of the nations of the earth were blessed because
Abraham believed. Let me explain how this works in your life. When you pray for your family and you hear God say, “I’m going to save your mom; I’m going to heal your grandmother; I’m going to give you food to eat;” You have to hold on to that promise and believe God with your entire heart. I don’t care how long it takes, you have to believe. Hold on to the promises of God. Abraham believed God and because he believed, he was set right before God. If you believe that God is who he says he is and that God will do what He says he will do, you will be set right before God. I’m only asking you to do one thing today. Hold on to the promises of God.

PIF Kids Retreat: 9-17-10 - 9-18-10

We had an awesome time at the retreat! Bounce House, Arts and Crafts, Service, Outdoor play, Rock Climbing, Canoeing, Basketball, and just a great time of fellowship with each other! It feels good to be away from Home :D

Here are some pictures:

9-12-10: Lesson 6: God answers prayer

Sermon Theme: God answer our prayer

Bible Verse: "When I pray you answer me (Psalm 138: 8)"

Bible Story:
This week we are taught them very important weapon that God gave us, PRAY! As Christian we learned to pray in every situation. Bible says, “Cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5: 7 We learned that prayer is the correct response to every situation.
Teachers, this week I want you to emphasize to children that when we pray, things happened, God answered us! This is the point we want to bring across to the children. No matter what situation they are facing, the only thing that is going to give them an answer is prayer
Let’s teach them three things they should know about prayer:
When you pray,
1. You are having a conversation with God.
2. You are using a powerful weapon.
3. You get a strategy from God.

9-5-10: Lesson 5: Trust your God

Sermon Theme: Trust your God

Bible Verse: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” –Romans 8:31

Bible Story: Nehemiah 2

God promises if you trust Him in every situation He will help you. Let me tell you about a man in the Bible who trusted God and God helped him. His name was Nehemiah. Nehemiah’s country Israel and another country Babylon were in a war. Nehemiah’s country lost and the King of Babylon took Nehemiah and all the people of Israel and made them slaves in Babylon. They destroyed and burned parts of Israel including the city of Jerusalem. The king had died and there was a new king in Babylon. The new king was willing to let Nehemiah and his people to go back to their country. He was setting them free. When Nehemiah went back, he saw that his country had been destroyed; including the wall that protects Jerusalem. God told Nehemiah to rebuild the wall. So he met with some of the other men who return to Jerusalem. So he told the men to let’s rebuild the wall. So they began to rebuild the walls but then some people came against them and began to make fun of Nehemiah and the men.

They said: What are they trying to do? They can’t make their city wall like new again. The stones are badly burned. If a fox walks on the wall it will fall! ::they laugh::

But Nehemiah and the men kept working on the wall. Everyday these men came against them

They said: What don’t you understand, you can’t rebuild the walls, they’ve been destroyed

The Israelites heard them but they did not stop, they kept on working and people came against them again.

They said: IT CANNOT BE DONE!

Right there Nehemiah is faced with a decision. Will he trust what those people are saying that it cannot be done and say, “Forget it, we cannot rebuild this wall”–or will he trust His God? Every day you face situations where you have to make a decision. Will you trust what people say or will you trust your God? Maybe when you’re at school one of your friends says, “I don’t understand why you pray, do you really think God will answer your prayers?” Right there you have to make a decision: Will you listen to what that person is saying or will you trust your God? God says His eyes are on you and He listens to your prayers.

Maybe someone has told you that you can’t be a Christian where you live. You’ll never make it, you can’t live for Jesus in your neighborhood. Will you trust what they say or will you trust your God who says, “You can do all
things through Christ who strengthens you”? It’s a decision you have to make every single day to trust God and when you trust God, He helps you in every situation. He will help you when people come against you. He will help you when people crush you with their words. He will help you when people say hurtful things to you. Nehemiah was faced with a decision: would he trust what those people were saying or would he trust his God?
After praying to the Lord, Nehemiah looked at his men and said this:

Nehemiah: “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great, he will fight for us! He will help us!”

8-29-10: Lesson 4 - Choose to obey God's word

Sermon Theme: The Holy Spirit is here for you

Bible Verse: “We must obey God rather than men.” –Acts 5:29

Bible Story: Genesis 6 (Noah’s Ark)

Everyone was sinning (full of violence)and God regret making man on earth and his heart has filled with pain. God was so angry that he decided to get rid of all the human race once and for all. But there was one man name Noah who was righteous in God’s eyes so he told him to build an ark. God told Noah to build an ark to put two animals of each kind in it. ”. An ark is a huge boat that can hold a lot of people. No boat of this size had ever been built. It had never rained on the earth while Noah lived. It made no sense to build a boat. Now, imagine what people were thinking about Noah. They were in the middle of the desert. There was no water ANYWHERE and it had NEVER rained before. What do you think people said to Noah? They probably laughed at him. They probably told him how stupid he was. They probably told Noah to stop buildingthe ark. A lot of you guys can relate to the situation Noah was probably in. Other kids laugh at you because you go to PIF Kids. You can obey them and stop or you can obey God and continue to come.
Noah made a good decision. He chose to obey God’s Word. He built the ark. After it was complete, he let all of the animals in. (Add sound effect of rain.) The rain came and the entire world was flooded. The only survivors were Noah, his family and the animals. If Noah had disobeyed God’s Word, the whole world would have died.

8-27-10 - 8-28-10 Family Conference

We had an awesome time together with the Lord during Family conference. First night we talked about how Sin entered through the Fall of Man. When Eve was tempted by the devil to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. But Jesus redeemed us from our Sin through his blood. Second day we talked about when Peter denied Jesus 3 times.