Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Read the Bible In A Year
In the past years that I've done a Bible-reading plan to read in a year, I've used to one in the back of my Bible. It's worked well, but I've often found it overwhelming. The plan in my Bible would have me reading quite a few chapters from the same book every day, and since my attention span isn't all that great, I found myself having a hard time concentrating, thus leaving me discouraged. Our pastor recommended this outline for reading your Bible in a year, and I LOVE it! It has you reading a two chapters from two different books of the Old Testament and two chapters of two different New Testament books every day. I find that this format works best for me, since I get to change subjects three times as I read, which helps to keep me fixated longer. The other thing that I love about this is that it takes you through the Old Testament once in that year and the New Testament and Psalms twice! I would highly recommend this for anyone who wants to get on a daily reading schedule; it's not too late to start now! Just start on the readings for today's date, and then read until this time next year :D
Saturday, July 24, 2010
VBS 2010 -Part II
Wow, wasn't sure I was actually going to have a "Part 2", but here it is :) (My computer has been crawling lately, so editing pictures takes forever).
Our VBS theme this year was "God's Green Earth." Noooo, we weren't teaching the kids to be treehuggers or anything like that :P Our main goal was to convey to the kids the wonder of the world around us. Unfortunatley, when most people see how amazing creation is, they worship the creation, thus we often hear phrases like "Save the trees!" What we wanted to show the kids instead was that creation ultimatley points us to a great Creator.
The week was a blast! We wrote our own lessons (something we've been doing ever since the youth took over the running of VBS, when I was 13), so each class had a little different lesson plans. On day 1, my class went over the days of creation, and the kids memorized what was created on what days. On day 2 I taught on the wonders of creation-we did a lot of hands on demonstrations of things such as the moon's effect on the tides, the earth's distance from the sun, animals instincts, etc. This was the kids' (and my) favorite day. It was basically things that we could tell others to demonstrate that there really is a Creator and all this could not have happened by chance. Day 3 we went over how man was created specially and is different than the animals. The kids learned that man was made in God's image, was given dominion over the then perfect world, and then feel into sin. On day 4 I taught on God's plan to "Save the people". This day was VEEEERRRRRYYYY interesting because one of the little boys in my class was Catholic and was adding his own opinions to the things that I was saying. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing for us to get into some discussions, but he didn't understand why I didn't agree with him, until he realized that the rest of us were not Catholic. Then the kids started talking about where they went to church and what denomination was better, haha. I was relieved to look at the clock and see that it was snack time. I held up my hand and said "You know what guys, God can save Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, and anyone else whom He chooses, so let's go for snacks!" :) On day 5 I taught on worshipping the Creator with our lives, and walking the walk even when it gets difficult.
So, enough of my rambling, here are some more pictures :D
My class singing the Ten Commandments song
Our new pastor (who was installed the Sunday after VBS ended) and his wife surprised us by coming to see the closing program :)
Our VBS theme this year was "God's Green Earth." Noooo, we weren't teaching the kids to be treehuggers or anything like that :P Our main goal was to convey to the kids the wonder of the world around us. Unfortunatley, when most people see how amazing creation is, they worship the creation, thus we often hear phrases like "Save the trees!" What we wanted to show the kids instead was that creation ultimatley points us to a great Creator.
The week was a blast! We wrote our own lessons (something we've been doing ever since the youth took over the running of VBS, when I was 13), so each class had a little different lesson plans. On day 1, my class went over the days of creation, and the kids memorized what was created on what days. On day 2 I taught on the wonders of creation-we did a lot of hands on demonstrations of things such as the moon's effect on the tides, the earth's distance from the sun, animals instincts, etc. This was the kids' (and my) favorite day. It was basically things that we could tell others to demonstrate that there really is a Creator and all this could not have happened by chance. Day 3 we went over how man was created specially and is different than the animals. The kids learned that man was made in God's image, was given dominion over the then perfect world, and then feel into sin. On day 4 I taught on God's plan to "Save the people". This day was VEEEERRRRRYYYY interesting because one of the little boys in my class was Catholic and was adding his own opinions to the things that I was saying. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing for us to get into some discussions, but he didn't understand why I didn't agree with him, until he realized that the rest of us were not Catholic. Then the kids started talking about where they went to church and what denomination was better, haha. I was relieved to look at the clock and see that it was snack time. I held up my hand and said "You know what guys, God can save Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, and anyone else whom He chooses, so let's go for snacks!" :) On day 5 I taught on worshipping the Creator with our lives, and walking the walk even when it gets difficult.
So, enough of my rambling, here are some more pictures :D
My class singing the Ten Commandments song
Our new pastor (who was installed the Sunday after VBS ended) and his wife surprised us by coming to see the closing program :)
The youngest class singing during the closing program
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
VBS 2010 Part I
As promised, here are some picture from VBS. More will follow hopefully soon :)
I apologize for the quality of these...the lighting in the church was AWFUL. Sooo, I had to put my camera on some settings that let in more light, while sacrificing clear photos...
Nevin in rec :)
MUSIC!
A few of the younger helpers hangin' out
The Kobb boys...
Tyler
...and Aden
My buddy Aliza Willeke <3
Ian and Hope...two of my favorite kiddos :D
Cristian
Megan
We were so blessed to have Sarah Bryan back with us for day 1!
Nevin and Jacob; quite a pair :)
I apologize for the quality of these...the lighting in the church was AWFUL. Sooo, I had to put my camera on some settings that let in more light, while sacrificing clear photos...
Nevin in rec :)
MUSIC!
A few of the younger helpers hangin' out
The Kobb boys...
Tyler
...and Aden
My buddy Aliza Willeke <3
Ian and Hope...two of my favorite kiddos :D
Cristian
Megan
We were so blessed to have Sarah Bryan back with us for day 1!
Nevin and Jacob; quite a pair :)
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