Listen. If you missed the Children’s Message on Sunday, you can listen to a recording of it here: http://www.pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall starting Monday. Review What kind of prayer is Psalm 4? What is it for? [Hint to parents: Psalm 4 is a bedtime prayer for a long, bad, frustrating day.] Have you ever had a bad frustrating …
Author: Nathan Hall
Going Deeper: August 30
Read Psalm 4 together. If you missed the sermon on Sunday, you can watch it here starting on Monday: pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall Listen. How does Psalm 4 help you begin your day as darkness falls? What does Psalm 4 teach us about letting go of life’s stresses and resting in God’s power? Respond. How will you use …
John Gray and Stephen Furtick
Conversations about race are even more terrifying than talking about politics. They are fraught with emotion. There is the fear of being misunderstood. So we say nothing and over the years the church has largely been silent. The result is that we live in a country where our churches are segregated on Sunday and violence …
God is Bigger
Listen. Listen to the pre-recorded Children’s Message together. You can find it at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall Review Have a conversation with the kids about what they are most scared of. If you would like, you can have the kids draw pictures of something scary. How do we feel when we see something scary? How does God do …
Going Deeper: August 23
A Laughing God and an Eternal King Read Psalm 2 together. Watch the sermon video (available at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall) Listen. How does Psalm 2 help us overcome fear and intimidation so that we might pray with boldness and clarity? Respond. How does Psalm 2 challenge you to deal with your fear, particularly when it comes to …
Peter Scazzero
Peter Scazzero pastors a church in one of the most diverse zip codes in the United States. For this church, the challenge of racial reconciliation extends beyond the black-white divide to include Jews and Palestinians, Dominicans and Haitians, Koreans and Japanese, and Turks and Armenians. All of these ethnic conflicts exist within Pastor Scazzero’s church …
Trees
Listen. Listen to the pre-recorded Children’s Message together. You can find it at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall Review What did Pastor Nate find amazing about trees? [Activity: Go outside with the kids and see how many different kinds of trees you can find. Make a list of these trees. What are their leaves like? What is their bark …
Going Deeper: August 16
Read Psalm 1 together. Watch the sermon video (available at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall) Listen. What does Psalm 1 tell us about the path to God’s blessing? How does it contrast to the life path of the world around us? What is the image of a blessed person? How can we root ourselves in God in a hostile …
Latasha Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEgskxyA2eE&feature=youtu.be The church is the first international, inter-racial family in the history of the world. This is not just a future heavenly ideal, this is a present earthly reality. This is the truth that animates Latasha Morrison, a woman who has dedicated her life to seeing racial reconciliation happen in the American church. She sees …
Self-Control
Listen. Listen to the pre-recorded Children’s Message together. You can find it at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall Review If we are going to train to run a marathon, why is self-control so important? What kind of prize did marathon runners get in Paul’s day? [Hint to parents: In case you didn’t catch it, they won a crown of …
