Just as the wise men worshiped Jesus, we can worship Him to. We probably won’t give Him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh (after all, He doesn’t need any of those things now), but we can give Him many other gifts as well…such as our love, our obedience, and our praise.

Join us Sunday for the last part of the Christmas story…and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Several in our class will be traveling to other places to celebrate Christmas. We will be praying for you as you and your families travel. Please remember to think about the true meaning of Christmas, as we celebrate Jesus’ birthday. Maybe you can offer to read the Christmas story from Luke 2 for your family this year.

See you Sunday if you are at home…and have a really great Christmas!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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God gets all the pieces of the puzzle together. He gets Caesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome, to arrange for Mary and Joseph to have to go to Bethlehem for Jesus to be born, just as He told Micah. The Magi study the stars and see that a King is being born, so they start their journey to Bethlehem. All the angels are waiting for their cues to tell the Good News to the shepherds. The whole world is waiting for the Savior to be born.

This Sunday we will focus on the birth of Jesus, the events that we actually celebrate on Christmas Eve night. It’s the event that started year 1 on our the calendar system we use today (A.D. stands for Latin Anno Domini, meaning the year of our Lord. Jesus fulfilled more than 300 Old Testament prophecies, and His birth began a life which showed us what God is like and how to live as God intended, and a death which would pay for our sins and win us eternal life.

Let’s celebrate Jesus’ birthday together this week! It is our Christmas party, so please try to bring a friend to join with us. We will be making a special Christmas tree ornament, and you will receive a wrapped Christmas gift as well as share our refreshments, view and hear the Christmas story, and sing some of your favorite Christmas songs.

See you Sunday!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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But another thing we see about Jesus’ birth is that there were angels everywhere! The angels knew what was going to happen, and they must have been waiting excitedly for hundreds of years to get ready for Jesus’ birth. From angels telling John the Baptist’s father Zachariah that he would be born to the angel choir telling the shepherds that Jesus had finally been born (as well as a couple of more times after that), we read about angels everywhere.

This Sunday we will learn about how angels told Mary and Joseph that God was going to bring Jesus into their home as a baby. What a wonderful message!

Thanks for your help decorating our room for Christmas last week! We had to rearrange things a little to finish it up, but the room looks great.

Bring a friend to enjoy the Christmas season with us this week!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we will begin 700 years before Jesus was born, as God continued to prepare the world to be ready to receive His gift—this time through the prophets Isaiah and Micah.

There are over 300 prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament, and we will learn about just a few of them this week. God really wanted us to know that Jesus was the Messiah, the Savior, who would come to save people from their sins.

Let’s all try very hard to keep thinking about Jesus this Christmas season. Sometimes it’s hard, with all the other things that we see and hear and do, but Jesus is what it’s all about.

We will have our Christmas party on December 16, so that would be a great time to invite a friend to come to celebrate with you!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Our Bible story this week is about actually reading the Bible…it doesn’t do us any good for it to sit on a table or a shelf. We need to know what it says…and even more, we need to do what it says! God has given us the Bible so that we know how He has put us together and how to make the most of our lives.

Jesus learned the Bible as a child, along with the other Jewish boys of Nazareth. He did have a special advantage, since He was God’s Son, but the Bible tells us that He became like us in every way, so that He could show us how we could live. So He chose not to use his advantage, but learned the Scriptures the same way we do. Perhaps more important, He promised that the Holy Spirit that He sent to live in us would help us to have the same advantages that He had as Son of God. We are adopted as sons and daughters of God, and the Holy Spirit will enable us and help us to live just as Jesus did.

We are told that it takes repeating an action 21 times to form a habit. Why not promise to read the Bible each day for the next 21 days? You can use the Adventure magazine as a guide to help you read the Bible each day.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving! Take time to tell God some of the things you are especially thankful for. And remember to thank Him for the Bible.

Bring a friend with you Sunday!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we will be learning about the very beginning of Jesus’ ministry, when Satan came to tempt Jesus to sin. It was right after John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.

Satan tried three different ways to get Jesus to sin, but in each case Jesus refused and answered Satan with a verse of the Bible—all out of the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy.

One thing we can learn from Jesus’ example is how important it is to learn and memorize the Bible. That’s why we have a memory verse every week. God promised that if we learn His Word, or hide it in our hearts, the Holy Spirit will bring it to our memory when we need it and help us to not sin against God.

Please remember to bring your decorated Thanksgiving bags Sunday, whether you have any food to bring or not. Our deacons will use our class’s bags to deliver food to needy families, and the decorations will help them think about Thanksgiving and being thankful to God for all His blessings.

See you Sunday—and don’t forget to bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we’ll learn how the king of Judah tried to destroy God’s Word through Jeremiah, by cutting it up and burning it. However, God protects His Word! Even though King Jehoiakim, as well as many other people, have tried to destroy it, we still have the Bible today, and we still have the book of Jeremiah’s prophecy.

Join us as we learn the story of Jermiah. We’ll hear the story from James, our computer teacher, and then have a drama so you can act out the story. Hopefully we’ll have time for a treasure-hunt game to help us review what we’ve learned.

Don’t forget to bring your Thanksgiving bags with food for needy families this Thanksgiving! Will the girls or the boys bring in more pounds of food?

See you Sunday…and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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During King Josiah’s reign, an important part of the Bible was found in the temple, after it had been lost for around 100 years. Josiah had never been able to read God’s Word, but when he read this scripture, he realized that he and Judah had not been obeying God’s commandments. He tore his clothes as a sign of sorrow and grief, and assembled all the people so he could read to them this wonderful “new” book.

Although wicked men had neglected and maybe even tried to destroy His word, God preserved it…and He has done the same for thousands of years. God has promised that His Word, the Bible, will last forever.

Remember three things this Sunday:

1) Set your clock back an hour as Daylight Saving Time ends; 2) Bring food (canned goods and staples) in your decorated Thanksgiving bags to share with needy families at Thanksgiving (we’ll weigh it for our contest); 3) Invite a friend to our Friend Day party and pick up your prizes.

See you Sunday!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Music is important throughout the Bible. In fact, the book of Psalms is really the Jewish song book! Many of the Psalms were used in worship in the temple.

The event in the Old Testament that we will study is the rebuilding of the temple by Zerubbabel, after its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar of Bablyon. The first thing the Jews did after they were released from captivity was to build the altar and start the daily sacrifices. After they had a chance to build their own homes for shelter, they started on the foundation of the temple, in the same place that Solomon’s temple had stood. When that foundation was finished, they took time to praise God and worship with song and music.

Don’t forget November 4 — it’s time change Sunday (so you get an extra hour of sleep!) but also Friend Day in Sunday School. Bring a friend and you both get to choose from the treasure chest. And everyone present will also get a gift. Our class is having a special party—bring a friend and dress alike (or wear the same color) and join us. You’ll get an invitation in the mail this week, with a card you may use to invite a friend.

Remember that worship is the most important thing that a person can do! Be sure to tell God that you love Him.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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