What's more precious than jewels but available to all who seek it? Screams to get your attention but eludes you if you ignore it? Has a definite starting point but knows no end?
It's wisdom, which is finding out what you should do and doing it. God says if you accept His words and store up His commands inside you, tune your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, call out for insight and search for it as you would for hidden treasure, then you will find out how to know Him. He is the one who gives wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, the one who stores up success for His followers, the one who shields them from harm, guards their paths, and leads them in the right direction. (See Proverbs 2:1-11. In fact, see all of Proverbs for a whole trove of the treasures of wisdom.) Put that way, who in his right mind wouldn't dig wisdom? Dig for wisdom? Dig and dig for wisdom?
So in September, we'll be on the hunt for gems of wisdom, helping kids understand that God wants to give you wisdom. Wisdom is worth searching for. If you want to be wise, hang out with wise people. And wisdom is knowing AND doing.
So get your shovel out and let's go dig for wisdom. It's worth it.
By Melanie Williams. © 2009 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Monday, August 31, 2009
What is ORANGE all about?
I am not sure how old your children are but ORANGE is really more about college students than preschool children. But please don't stop reading yet. Statistics indicate that a majority of teenagers that grow up in the church will walk away from the church after graduating high school. And unfortuanetly only a small percentage will ever come back.
Most parents that attend church fear that happening to their kids one day. It has been said that the definition of insanity is to continue doing the same things expecting different results. ORANGE is a strategy that says the price is too high to continue doing family discipleship the same way in the church with poor positive results.
ORANGE is very Biblical! God created two instituitions. The family and the church. Most families and churches only sync together on Sundays. But what would happen if these two influences began to work together. Two influences make a greater impact that just two influences.
The color YELLOW represents the church. The church is to be the light of the world. The color RED represents the family. Family is a place of unconditional love. When YELLOW and RED are combined you get the color ORANGE. ORANGE is a vibrant color, the color of creativity and I believe the color of change for your family.
Most parents that attend church fear that happening to their kids one day. It has been said that the definition of insanity is to continue doing the same things expecting different results. ORANGE is a strategy that says the price is too high to continue doing family discipleship the same way in the church with poor positive results.
ORANGE is very Biblical! God created two instituitions. The family and the church. Most families and churches only sync together on Sundays. But what would happen if these two influences began to work together. Two influences make a greater impact that just two influences.
The color YELLOW represents the church. The church is to be the light of the world. The color RED represents the family. Family is a place of unconditional love. When YELLOW and RED are combined you get the color ORANGE. ORANGE is a vibrant color, the color of creativity and I believe the color of change for your family.
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