You will need: A cardboard paper towel roll tin foil rice sellotape and coloured paper.

He didnt bother to dig down to the shelf of rock below. By contrast the foolish man thought he knew a shortcut. You will need: scissors, colouring pens or pencils, a glue stick and a copy of the printable template from Print out a copy of the template and follow the easy instructions on the website to make your house! Maybe you can make two houses - one for the wise man and one for the foolish man in this week's Bible story! The wise man ' built his house on rock ' (Mt 7.24)' or in the words of Luke the wise man ' dug deep and laid the foundation on rock ' (6.48). 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like.

25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. Please help us to follow you and do what you ask us to do so that we can be strong and safe like the wise man in the Bible story. 24 Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you that you love us very much and want to be our friend. If we continue to follow Jesus, one day we will go to live with him forever in heaven! If we pray and read the Bible regularly, God will help us to be better followers of Jesus and more like the wise man. Following Jesus and doing what he tells us to do will make us strong like the wise man’s house and we will be safe when bad things happen because he will be with us. But when we obey him and do what he tells us to do, we are like the wise man. Jesus was trying to teach his disciples, and us, that when we do not obey Jesus, we are like the foolish man. Our thoughts would be built on Biblical truths Building our thoughts on the promises of. But the foolish man built his house on the soft sand, so when rain came, his house fell apart! The parable of the house built on the rock versus the house built on sand is applicable here (Matthew 7:2427). So how do we know if we are building on the rock or the sand. The Bible verse above speaks of a foolish man building his house on sand, and when the storms came it fell, because the sand was not solid. The wise man built his house on solid rock and when the rain came, his house was safe because it was built well on the right type of ground. What happened to the house that was built on sand?

What happened to the house that was built on rock? So if he gives us good choices to follow in the Bible and gives us these 'rules' they are meant to help us, not to hurt us. We know that God is the maker of everything, He made us and knows what's best for us. Let’s watch the video to see what happens: Just like a sand castle, a house can't be built on sand and it comes crashing down. This Bible story is about two men who decide to build themselves houses! One builds his house on solid rock and the other builds his house on the sand. In this session we are going to hear another parable that Jesus told.

House built on sand bible