Blessings
What does beatitude mean?
Supreme Blessing
David, Mary, Joesph, and Elizabeth are all descendants of?
Abraham
God keeps his promises with us all. He kept his promise with Abraham by?
1) Letting Abraham be the father to many generations (descendants)
2) and blessing those generations.
David went from being a shepherd to a ________?
king
Germany
"poor"
John
King Herod was full of anger and did what recklessly?
Ordered for boys 2 years of age and under to be killed (;thus, killing many innocent boys.)
**Don't let anger be your guide to and in making decisions.
Samson
The title of the song we will sing for Christmas.
"How Many Kings" (by Downhere)
Fill in the blank:
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be _______."
"comforted"
Mary conceived through the ______ ______.
Mary was a virgin and that, perhaps was the reason why she had the honor to carry Jesus in her womb.
In other words, Mary kept her body ______ (another word for clean) and so she was blessed with carrying Jesus.
Holy
Sarah's first/old name was?
Sarai
Myrrh is?
Fill in the blank:
"Blessed are those who ______ and thirst for righteousness,..."
"hunger"
John becomes what when he gets older? AKA, John the _______"
John the baptist.
"holy"
Who is Jeremiah and what's the story? What can we learn from this story?
Jeremiah was a scribe and prophet (he wrote what God wanted to write, etc.: parts to the bible.)
God's word never fails and will never disappear regardless of anything.
True or False:
Jesus was born on Christmas.
FALSE.
Some speculations as to why it's FALSE:
There is no evidence for this date. So then, who decided that Jesus' birth would be celebrated on that date? The early Christian church did not celebrate Jesus' birth. It wasn't until A.D. 440 that the church officially proclaimed December 25 as the birth of Christ. This was not based on any religious evidence but on a pagan feast. Saturnalia was a tradition inherited by the Roman pagans from an earlier Babylonian priesthood. December 25 was used as a celebration of the birthday of the sun god.
The apostles in the Bible predicted that some Christians would adopt pagan beliefs to enable them to make their religion more palatable to the pagans around them. Therefore, some scholars think the church chose the date of this pagan celebration to interest them in Christianity. The pagans were already used to celebrating on this date.
The Bible itself tells us that December 25 is an unlikely date for His birth. Palestine [middle east] is very cold in December. It was much too cold to ask everyone to travel to the city of their fathers to register for taxes. Also the shepherds were in the fields (Luke 2:8-12). Shepherds were not in the fields in the winter time. They are in the fields early in March until early October. This would place Jesus' birth in the spring or early fall. It is also known that Jesus lived for 33.5 years and died at the feast of the Passover, which is at Easter time. He must therefore have been born six months the other side of Easter - making the date around the September/October time frames.
Fill in the blank:
"Blessed are the ________, for they will be shown mercy."
"merciful"
What is a baptist?
Baptizes people.
Jesus sacrificed his 1) _________. We can understand this in one example of him being:
2) _____________.
1) comfort
2)born on earth in a barn and in a manger
Freebie!!
Freebie!!
True or False:
All good and righteous actions will be rewarded by this world (other people.)
FALSE.
Not every righteous thing you do will be rewarded or be seen by people in this world (like your parents or friends.) But God sees and knows and will reward you. His reward is greater than any's reward as well, so do not worry. :) Keep fighting the good fight (even when you fail, ask God to help you).