Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

SCRIPTURE VERSE FOR THIS WEEK
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, love your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27 (TNIV)

Mealtime Prayer:
God so good, your praises we shout! Give us love for those without. Amen.

A Blessing to Give:
May God produce good fruit in you. May you grow to know God better and better. Amen. (Colossians 1:10)

CARING CONVERSATION
Discuss in your household or small group:
• Share about a time when someone else was kind to you.
• In Jesus’ parable, the Good Samaritan went out of his way to help the
man who had been robbed. What would you have done if you saw the
hurt man on the road? How is God like theGood Samaritan in the way God treats us?
• Who do you know that needs some help? What could you do to be a
good neighbor to them?

DEVOTIONS
Speaking through Moses, God told the people of Israel that the Word was in their mouths and in their hearts so that they would obey it (Deuteronomy 30:14). In your home devotion times this week, try to memorize (i.e. place in your mouths and hearts) what Jesus called the two greatest commandments: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27)

SERVICE
Plan a surprise act of service for a neighbor, such as baking some treats, cleaning the garden, mowing the lawn or washing his/her car.

RITUALS AND TRADITIONS
Give out “Good Samaritan” awards in your home this week, such as small treats or coupons. When you gather as a family, share ways in which you have seen each other act as “good neighbors” to one another or to people outside your home. Reward each other accordingly.