Sunday Spirit November 4, 2018 (click on photo)

God

If someone gave you a blank piece of paper and some colored pencils and asked you to draw a picture of God, what would you draw? Would it be a man with a long flowing beard floating on a cloud? Would it be a vision of the sun setting below a majestic mountain? Would it be a picture of your child’s face? Would it be lines all over your paper depicting the connection between all human beings?

As we tell our Confirmation students, there is no wrong way to draw God.

I read a quote somewhere that said, “We spend too much time talking about God and not nearly enough time experiencing God. So after you draw your picture of God ask yourself where or when do you experience God? To help answer, lets first answer this question – When you hear the word God what comes to mind?

I asked the children during this past Sunday’s Children’s Sermon – When you hear the word God what comes to mind?  Their response? Love, Kindness, Hope, Forgiveness.

So I told them when you experience love you experience God. When you experience hope you experience something about what God is about. When you experience forgiveness you experience something of what God means. When you experience kindness you experience God.

So get a piece of paper and some crayons and start drawing!

Sunday Spirit February 11, 2018

Think of a friend.  Picture their face.  Imagine the times you share together.  Ask this question:  Why is this person my friend?  Jesus believed in friendship.  One of his most famous teachings is Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.  Or, in other words, treat your friend as you would like your friend to treat you.

Are you a good friend?

A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen ~ Winnie The Pooh

Sunday Spirit February 4, 2018

At dawn, as the sun slips over the horizon, kids around the world get up, wash up, and celebrate a new day.

Our homes may look different, we may go to different schools, speak a language others don’t understand, and eat foods that are strange.  However, we have more in common than we realize.

Ask your child; what do other children do every day that you do every day?

Book Suggestion:  One World, One Day by Barbara Kerley

Sunday Spirit

Our full Sunday Spirit program begins this Sunday, September 13th!  We can’t wait to see many of you back from your summer adventures.  Our time together will be spent reconnecting through games and sharing.  Classes will be designated as follows:  Middle School (youth room), 3rd – 5th (room 11), K – 2nd (room 10) and toddler/nursery
(room 9).

BPC Podcasts Now Available

Our sermons are now available as podcasts through iTunes.

You can find our podcasts by searching for Bedford Presbyterian Church in the iTunes store or you can use this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bedford-presbyterian-church/id990016322

Follow The Leader

follow the leader

 

Tomorrow morning in our worship service I am going to play Follow the Leader with the children who are there.  We will clap our hands and jump up and down and turn circles and pat our heads.  And then, when I have them all wound up, I am going to ask them to sit down and talk with me about what we have done.

Isn’t church at its best…
Or a synagogue or a mosque or a temple for that matter…
A place where we gather to learn to play Follow the Leader?
Where we come to be reminded of our bravest hopes and our best values that are wrapped up in that which we know and name as God?
Values like compassion and kindness and the common good.
Hopes like peace and justice and enough for all.
And then, having been reminded…
Having caught a glimpse of that Dream of God…
Of where God is going and what God is doing…
To walk out the doors
And into the world doing our best to play the game.
Follow the Leader.