Teaching Goal: Jesus calls us to be "salt" in this world. Like salt in water, we are to provide support for friends and others. Scriptures: Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. Mark 9:50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make [...]
By Karen Noal Teaching Goal: We can always trust in God and His plan even if we don’t understand why some things happen. Scripture: John 9:2-3 “His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man, nor his parents [...]
Teaching Goal: Jesus wants us to give Him our anxieties, concerns, and struggles. Scriptures: Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart [...]
Teaching Goal: Pray bold prayers where the answer can only be explained by God’s involvement. Scripture: Exodus 16. For forty years, God provides 2,000,000 Israelites with manna in the morning and quail at night. Acts 12. Peter is kept in prison. The church prays for him and an angel [...]
Teaching Goal: Understand the purpose of hard times in our lives. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:6-7 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, [...]
Teaching Goal: Attitude is not determined by circumstances. We choose our attitude. Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus [...]
Teaching Goal: God is still with us and loves us when bad things happen Scripture: Acts 9:8-9 Saul {Paul} got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing…For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything. 2 Corinthians 11:16-35 [...]