A. High Lights of your week
B. "Guess Who" game: Ask yes/no questions to find out who Luke's fiance is.
C. Short Story: Please Marry Me!
Jill answered the phone. It was Jack.
"Jill, will you marry me next week?"
"What?"
Jack repeated his question.
"Of course not," she replied. She wondered
why he was asking her that question. They had already agreed that when
people get married, they immediately start to take each other for
granted. They don't do the "little things" like opening the car door or
holding hands. They get too comfortable. They treat their partner like
an old shoe. And eventually, they get bored with each other and get
divorced.
"We already agreed that we don't want to get married because we don't want to get divorced."
Jack agreed. But he argued that they were
special. They were different from other couples. They loved each other
too much to end up in a divorce.
"Yes, that may be true. But still, why next week? Why can't we think about it for another year or two?"
"Because I had two dreams the last two
nights. In both dreams, you left me for another man. In fact, you left
me for two different men. I want to get married now so I don?t have
these dreams anymore."
"Hmm. What did these men look like?"
D. Word Power - choose the correct definition and make a sentence with the word1. cryptology a: raiding of tombs, b: series of puzzles, c: study of codes
2. empathetic a: showing understanding or sensitivity, b: sad, c: numb
3. ovoid a: egg-shaped, b: empty, c: passionate
4. deify a: treat as God, b: bring back to life, c: disregard
5. perspicacious a: finicky, b: of acute mental vision, c:fortunate or lucky
6. indigenous a: poor, b: native, c: mixed
7. herbicide a: greenhouse, b:skin lotion, c: agent used to inhibit or kill plant growth
8. pachyderm a: elephant, b: jellyfish, c: butterfly
E. Bible Story:
2 Kings 5:1-9
5 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.
2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 5 “By
all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the
king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels[c] of gold and ten sets of clothing. 6 The
letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am
sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his
leprosy.”
7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”
8 When
Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes,
he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man
come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”
11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father,
if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have
done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be
cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.
17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord.
C. Short Story: Please Marry Me!
Jill answered the phone. It was Jack.
"Jill, will you marry me next week?"
"What?"
Jack repeated his question.
"Of course not," she replied. She wondered
why he was asking her that question. They had already agreed that when
people get married, they immediately start to take each other for
granted. They don't do the "little things" like opening the car door or
holding hands. They get too comfortable. They treat their partner like
an old shoe. And eventually, they get bored with each other and get
divorced.
"We already agreed that we don't want to get married because we don't want to get divorced."
Jack agreed. But he argued that they were
special. They were different from other couples. They loved each other
too much to end up in a divorce.
"Yes, that may be true. But still, why next week? Why can't we think about it for another year or two?"
"Because I had two dreams the last two
nights. In both dreams, you left me for another man. In fact, you left
me for two different men. I want to get married now so I don?t have
these dreams anymore."
"Hmm. What did these men look like?"
D. Word Power - choose the correct definition and make a sentence with the word1. cryptology a: raiding of tombs, b: series of puzzles, c: study of codes
2. empathetic a: showing understanding or sensitivity, b: sad, c: numb
3. ovoid a: egg-shaped, b: empty, c: passionate
4. deify a: treat as God, b: bring back to life, c: disregard
5. perspicacious a: finicky, b: of acute mental vision, c:fortunate or lucky
6. indigenous a: poor, b: native, c: mixed
7. herbicide a: greenhouse, b:skin lotion, c: agent used to inhibit or kill plant growth
8. pachyderm a: elephant, b: jellyfish, c: butterfly
E. Bible Story:
2 Kings 5:1-9
2 Kings 5:1-9
5 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.
2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels[c] of gold and ten sets of clothing. 6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”
8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”
11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.
17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord.
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