Rock, Paper, Swords!

For our first Sunday of the school year we talked about Swords and Rocks.



The Bible refers to itself as the "Sword of the Spirit" (Ephesians 6:17) We talked about how we can use the Bible to fight evil and cut down the weeds in our life. Like a Medieval Knight with a sword, we have a powerful weapon in the Bible.



During the second service we talked about how to put our faith in the proper place in our lives. Lisa B. came up with a great lesson on how Jesus' Spirit can soak into our lives. We put blocks of sponges into a jar until it was full. Each sponge-block represented something that takes up our time -- soccer practice, homework, playing with friends, going to school. When our jar was full and couldn't hold any more, we asked, "Where was God?" Instead of making God into another activity we have to cram into our full life, we said that God, through the Holy Spirit soaks into everything else. We got out a pitcher and poured about a half gallon of water into the jar crammed full of sponges -- and it all fit! God's Spirit will soak into everything we do -- not just our time at church.

Then we got out another, bigger jar. We borrowed this lesson from Stephen Covey. Click here for the whole story. In this lesson we learned that we have to make God a priority in our lives, and then everything will fit together!