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Thursday July 24, 2014

Jeannette, our Director of Children’s Ministries did a really great thing.   She collected questions about God and the world from the children two Sundays ago.  I thought it might be interesting and helpful to you to read their questions and my answers a few questions at a time in the next few blogposts.  Maybe they will help you as parents in your discipling of your children to be the best Christ followers they can be!  I’ve left out the children’s names to preserve their privacy.   Jeff
 

Hi ___________ in fourth grade,

You asked a really good question.  This is the question you asked.   “How does God help a lot of people?”

One of the really great things about God is that God can be everywhere on earth all at the same time.   God can be with you helping you at the very same time that he is helping someone else somewhere else on earth!   Isn’t that amazing?   The way he helps is mostly by giving you just the right friends and family to help you just at the very time that you need help the most.   Other times, God will give you thoughts and ideas that will help you.   Sometimes God even gives you extra energy to finish something, like your homework for instance, right when you don’t feel like doing it.   Here’s a verse from the Bible that I hope helps you.

“God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do”.     1 Corinthians 12:6 (CEV)

 

Hope this helps, __________

God bless,
Pastor Jeff

Hi __________________ in fourth grade,

Thanks for asking a great question!   This is the question that you asked was about heaven, “What is it like up there?”  That’s a hard question to answer,  but I’m sure it will be so beautiful that you won’t be able to stop staring at everything you see.   Have you ever gotten up really early on a beautiful spring day and noticed how the darkness outside slowly gets brighter and brighter until the sunshine shines on the tulips and daffodils and flowering trees and the morning mist and coolness goes away and suddenly the day is so beautiful you almost can’t stand it?

Our world right now is kind of like the early spring morning while it’s still partly dark.   Heaven will be like the wonderful beautiful day that is there when the sun burns away the coldness and mist.   It will be wonderful.

Here’s a verse for you.

“No eyes have ever seen,

  no ears have ever heard,

  and no mind has ever imagined what (great things)

  God has prepared for those who love him!!!!”         1 Corinthians 2:9

Here’s another verse that tells us that heaven will be a joyful place where all the bad things that happen now won’t happen there.
 

“I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”  Revelation 21:3-5 (NLT)  

One day Jesus will come down to earth and bring heaven with him and heaven will the fill the earth and everything will be big and great and beautiful and wonderful and loving and we will feel very, very happy and very, very alive!!!  

Hope this helps.

God bless,
Pastor Jeff

 

Hi ________ in Grade Five,

You asked a very good question, ________.   You asked, “Does Jesus have a last name?”   The answer to your question is no, Jesus does not have a last name.   Many people think that Jesus’ last name is Christ, but Christ is not his last name.  Instead Christ is Jesus’ title.    Just like your dad is an engineer, but when I say about your father, Dan the engineer, the word engineer is not your dad’s last name, instead engineer is what your dad does, sort of his title.    Christ, is what Jesus does, his title.   Christ means “the One who will rescue and save the world from sin and everything bad”.  So when you say Jesus Christ you are saying that you believe that Jesus is the most powerful person in the world, the one you can trust make everything that has gone wrong right again.

Here’s a Bible verse that will help you.

 “We have only one God, and he is the Father. He created everything, and we live for him. Jesus Christ is  our only Lord. Everything was made by him, and by him life was given to us.”  1 Corinthians 8:6 (CEV)

Hope this helps, __________

God bless,
Pastor Jeff

 

Hi ___________in grade three, 

You asked a question that is very, very hard to answer!   Here’s your question, “How did Noah get all the animals on the ark?”

The Bible doesn’t tell us exactly how Noah did it.   I’m sure that Noah had no idea how he was going to do it either, he just knew that God told him to fill the ark with animals and when the time came for animals to come on board, God made it happen.   That’s a really good thing for us to learn for our own lives.  Sometimes God wants us to do things that seem impossible to us, but we must obey God anyway.  And then just when we don’t know what to do next, God helps us with the exact help that we need.

Here’s a good Bible verse for you to remember.

 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know.
 Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 (TEV)

I hope this helps ___________!

God bless, Pastor Jeff

 

HI ________________ in fourth grade,

Thanks for asking a great question.  Your question was, “why was the Bible made?”      Here’s a really good verse from the Bible that gives an answer to your question.

 “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make   us realize what   
is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.” 
 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NLT)

The word “scripture” means the Bible.   The Bible is the story of how God made the world, what went wrong with the world, who we are and how God is working to remove all the bad from the world and make it into a world where only good exists.   It was written down so that people all over the world could read this story and trust in God and in his Son, Jesus, so that the can live the really good life also.

Hope this helps, ___________________!

God bless, Pastor Jeff

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