Promise Kingdom Blog

This week we are going to consider the truth that our love for God is shown by the fruit of our lives, especially when the winds of trial blow (Lesson #17).

These last few weeks, as we've heard God's Word from Colossians 1 and John 6, I have been challenged to consider how much I live in complete dependence and trust in my All-Sufficient Savior. He is the radiance of the glory of God. And yet He humbled Himself to death on a cross for us. He is the Bread of Life, giving us all that we need each day - food, clothing, shelter, faith to fight particular sins, empowerment for work and ministry, patience with children and coworkers, and ourselves, and so much more!

Hi parents. This week we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:1-18, including the Lord's Prayer.

In this week's lesson (#14) from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus calls on His children to love their enemies. What a radical command! We find it hard sometimes to love even our friends, and brothers and sisters! To love those who hate us? Impossible!

This week we will be studying the Beatitudes (Lesson 13), from Matthew 5. This should be somewhat familiar territory for those who were around for our summer sermon series! It's important to remember that, while the Beatitudes teach us of God's character and give us a description of how we are to live as His people, they are not qualities that we somehow muster up on our own.

This week in Promise Kingdom the kids will study lesson twelve, Jesus healing the paralyzed man from Luke 5:17-26. As great as that miracle of healing was, the greater miracle was that Jesus had the authority to forgive sins.

As many of you know, we are studying Bunyan's, Pilgrim's Progress in adult Sunday school. This week I've been thinking about Christian's response to his family's and neighbors' effort to convince him to stay in the City of Destruction. Christian “put his fingers in his ears and ran on crying, Life! Life! Eternal life!”.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

“How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” asked Nicodumus of Jesus in John 3:4. It was a logical question. But Nicodemus should have known that mere human logic wasn't going to cut it when talking to Jesus. Jesus was talking about spiritual realities, not physical ones.

Tomorrow during Promise Kingdom the kids are going to be reading about and learning the story of Jesus cleansing the temple (Lesson 8 in Old Story New). Part of this lesson deals with Jesus not entrusting Himself to the crowds because they were only following Him on account of the cool miracles He could do.