Weekly Challenge: The Father who seeks...

It was great to get together as a small church and share ideas, thoughts, and feelings about our loving Father who seeks and forgives in such an indescribable way. I also enjoyed our makeshift communion prior to breaking bread together as families.

The Weekly Challenge:
Take something very special to your child, hide it, and have them seek it out. Make it difficult but doable. Then over dinner talk about how our Father seeks us and share how He has pursued you in your life. Perhaps you can even discuss one or more of the 3 parables we discussed in class (Luke 15:1-32). For extra credit do your own communion as a family (you can do it the traditional way or with pretzel sticks and grapes, whatever works for your tribe).

⁴ Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

And our sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.

⁶ All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all

To fall on Him.(Isaiah 53:4-6)