God glorifying children and teens

Pray that Student Ministry and Children's Ministry leaders love God and help children, teens, and families love God.

Specifically, pray for the last couple of weeks of school year activities.
Also, pray for those going to summer camps at Lincoln Lake, Lake Ann, and Algonquin and our upcoming Vacation Bible School.

Here is the manuscript of what the children did in the Connection Time (9:30 to around 10:00) this past Sunday.

Is God's Word important?

Why?

There are other things that are important too… homework, video games, free time… right?

I know that because we spend our time on them! But how often do we take time for God’s Word? Just Sundays? Some of you may take time to read your Bible every day- have devos or quiet time, maybe you have a devotional book you’re reading through. But sometimes we don’t read our Bibles because we don’t know what to read or what to do after we’ve read some verses.

I want to take this time to show you something I do during quiet time and something our family does to help us learn and understand God’s Word.

Let's read 96:9,10.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; 

Tremble before him, all the earth! 

Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!  

Yes, the world is established;

it shall never be moved;  

he will judge the peoples with equity.”

These are the Fighter verses from this past week. If you don't know, fighterverses.com is a memory verse plan is designed to help individuals fight sin by knowing and believing God more.

There are three things we’re going to do with this verse today:

1. Get it in our minds by trying to memorize it.
Read together 2x
Try filling in blanks (show app)

2. Look more closely at the verse and observe some things.
Who are the commands directed toward? Triangle around everything that refers to God.
What describes God and what he does? Box those. Splendor of holiness, reigns, judge.

3. Let’s make some connections and talk about what this means.
Man- God
Worship splendor of holiness
Tremble reigns
Say judge

So we are to worship (praise, honor, think about) God for his being holy, we are also to tremble at this as you would coming before a king (respect, take serioulsly) and then we are to Say that the Lord reigns and that he will judge the people fairly. Now I want to show you how I studied this a little more.

Is that last part good news? Not if that’s all there is!

Let’s look up Rom 3:23?
We’ve all sinned and fallen short of God’s holiness so being judged as to whether we’re good or bad, we would fairly be judged that we are bad. And we can’t do anything to change that. But that’s where the good news comes in!

Read 1 John 4:10. That’s amazing!

Read 2 Cor 5:21.
Because Jesus became sin for us we that is why we can worship God in the splendor of his holiness! (Rom 9:9,10 - saved from judgment)

Does He reign? Yes! This means 3 things…

1. If He reigns, I do not!

2. If He reigns, I must worship him! Spend time with him, thinking about life his way, repenting of my sin, this changes us. (ideas of how to spend time with him)

3. If He reigns I must tell others!

Psalm 96:9,10

Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;

Tremble before him, all the earth!
Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established;

it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”

https://fighterverses.com/set-3-core-esv/week-15/

For more God-glorifying resources related to our Theology Matters study go to

www.drodgersjr.com/p/theology-matters-2.html