Wechat ESL Class on July 8th, 2017

A. High-Lights of the Week:

B. Short Story: An Inspiring Prayer
Heavenly Father, help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.
Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.
Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.
Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.
C. American Idioms:

1. Back to square one
2. Backhanded compliment
3. Back-seat driver  
4. (a) ball-park figure
5. (To) bank on something
6. (To) be up to no good
7. (To be) beside oneself
8. Believe it or not
9. Big-shot 
10. (To) bite off more than (you) can chew       

 D.  Bible Lesson : Isaiah 6:1-9

Isaiah 6Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

God Calls Isaiah to Be a Prophet

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a very high and wonderful throne. His long robe filled the Temple. ² Seraph angels stood around him. Each angel had six wings. They used two wings to cover their faces, two wings to cover their bodies, and two wings to fly. ³ The angels were calling to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord All-Powerful. His Glory fills the whole earth.” ⁴ The sound was so loud that it caused the frame around the door to shake, and the Temple was filled with smoke.

⁵ I was frightened and said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure enough to speak to God, and I live among people who are not pure enough to speak to him. But I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”
⁶ There was a fire on the altar. One of the Seraph angels used a pair of tongs to take a hot coal from the fire. Then the angel flew to me with it in his hand. ⁷ Then he touched my mouth with the hot coal and said, “When this hot coal touched your lips, your guilt was taken away, and your sins were erased”
⁸ Then I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Who can I send? Who will go for us?”
So I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
⁹ Then the Lord said, “Go and tell the people, ‘Listen closely, but don’t understand. Look closely, but don’t learn.’

Discussion Questions:

1. What was the amazing thing that Isaiah saw?
2. What else was there? What did they do?
3. How did Isaiah feel about God's holiness? 
4. Why is it important for us to understand that God is holy?
5. In the memory verse, how is the earth full of God's glory?

Memory Verse: Isaiah 6:3 
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory."