Elevate: Series 5 - Adventures in Science

Adventures in Science
Welcome to the AIS Laboratories where our dedicated and talented scientists seek to tackle some of the greatest wonders of our time. Step into the lab and get ready to examine the mysterious elements and miraculous events of the Bible.

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that because God made all people, I should love and respect other people.
• Main Point: God loves everyone, and so should I.
• Bible Story: Peter is summoned by Cornelius (Acts 10)
• Memory Verse: Acts 10:34b
  "I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism." (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that because God knows everything they do, they should do good in every part of their life.
• Main Point: God knows everything I do.
• Bible Story: God knows: when a sparrow falls and the hairs on your head (Matthew 10:9) God know everything about me, the good and the bad. (Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, 23-24)
• Memory Verse: Psalm 139:1
  "O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me..." (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that because God is everywhere, I should talk to him any time, any place, anywhere. They will also learn that you don't have to stop what you're doing and close your eyes to talk to God. We should be in conversation with Him all the time.
• Main Point: God is with me everywhere, so I should talk to Him all the time.
• Bible Story: Jonah tried to get away from God (Jonah) (Psalm 139:7-10)
• Memory Verse: 1 Thessalonians 5:17
  "Never stop praying." (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that because God is all powerful I should worship Him
• Main Point: God's more powerful than anything so I should worship Him
• Bible Story: God stopped the Sun (Judges...) God parted the sea (Exodus...) Jesus raised the dead (Matthew...)
• Memory Verse: Jude 25b
  "All glory, majesty, power, and authority are His before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time." (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that Jesus takes our sins away. He takes our sins away by taking the punishment for those sins.
• Main Point: Jesus took my sins away.
• Bible Story: Jesus Death and Resurrection
• Memory Verse: Romans 5:8
  "But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will realize that when they accept Christ they become a new creation and therefore should act differently than before.
• Main Point: Through Jesus I can be a new creation.
• Bible Story: Nicodemus learns about being born again (John 3:1-21)
• Memory Verse: 2 Corinthinans 5:17
  "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" (NLT)

• Lesson Goal: The children will learn that we are all part of one body and no part is unimportant.
• Main Point: Everybody is important.
• Bible Story: The Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-31)
• Memory Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:27
  "All of you together are Christ's body, and each of you is a part of it." (NLT)