Hugh Grace to Hu gh Questions for Cubs NOTE TO PARENTS/TEACHERS: The goal of this questions-and-answers section is to initiate interaction between you and your kids. Please do not just read the questions and answers to your kids. These answers are given for you at an adult level to think about and to process. Once that is accomplished, you can then translate them into appropriate answers for your kids. Lesson God Gives Us Grace Key Verse He gives grace to the afflicted. (Proverbs 3:34) Ear Check (Story Comprehension) Q: What happened to the Collins’s mansion? A: It was burned in a fire. Q: Who is Chief Williams? A: He is Wildwood’s fire chief. Q: How did the Collins’s mansion burn down? Was it an accident? A: Hugh accidentally set fire to the mansion while playing with firecrackers and matches. Q: What happened to C.J. while he and Staci were looking for clues? A: A wall collapsed around him. Q: What kind of bear is Paw Paw Chuck? A: A grizzly Heart Check (Spiritual Application) Q: Hugh didn’t mean to start a fire; he was only playing with firecrackers and matches. Why was Chief Williams so tough on him? A: Although Hugh didn’t mean to start the fire, he was disobeying Chief Williams and his own father. Sin often has consequences that are worse than we can imagine (Hebrews 10:26–31). That’s why God wants us to obey Him and those in authority over us—it’s for our own protection.
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Questions for Cubs Page 2 Q: Gooz restarted the fire. Why did she feel so badly about it? Why did Hugh only feel sorry when he got caught? A: Gooz loved Mrs. Collins, and she would never want to do anything that would hurt her. Hugh only thought about himself. If he had not been caught, he would probably never have thought about how much he hurt Mrs. Collins. Q: Gooz’s actions really did cause damage to Mrs. Collins. Why did Mrs. Collins treat her so well? A: Mrs. Collins loved Gooz, and she knew Gooz had only been trying to help. Mrs. Collins would have been justified if she had decided to ask Gooz to pay for the damages she caused. But her love gave her the grace to want to reach out and honor Gooz for her efforts to help. Q: Hugh did not love Mrs. Collins the way Gooz did. Hugh was actually very selfish and rather difficult to like at all. Why did Mrs. Collins decide to pay off the debt for Hugh? Why did she make him feel so badly before she forgave him? A: Even though Hugh did not have a relationship with Mrs. Collins, she wanted to have one with him. She wanted to help him even if it cost her dearly. Hugh needed a change in his heart, and Mrs. Collins knew that she could touch his heart powerfully by helping him. For Hugh’s heart to begin to heal, he needed to understand the weight of his sin and how he had ruined his life with his actions. Once he could grasp the enormity of his situation, he could then appreciate how much grace had been shown to him. “I” Check (Personal Application) 1. C.J. learned how the fire to the Collins’s mansion was started. What if you discovered someone had done something wrong? Would you tell someone? What if the person who did wrong was a friend or a family member? 2. Paw Paw Chuck rescued C.J. when the house was falling down. Has anyone ever saved you from getting hurt? What happened? 3. Misleading someone is the same thing as lying to them. Can you think of a time when you lied to someone else? Did that person ever discover the truth? 4. Mrs. Collins showed grace to Hugh. Why do you think she was so nice to him even though he burned down her house? 5. Grace is getting something good that you do not deserve or not getting something bad that you do deserve. Have you ever been shown grace? Describe a time when you showed grace to someone else.
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Grace to Hugh Director’s Notes For more than twenty-five years, Chuck Swindoll and Insight for Living have made the message of God’s grace a clarion call to tired, guilt-ridden Christians around the world. I wanted to communicate that same message in “Grace to Hugh.” There are many difficult concepts to understand when we come to the subject of grace, but perhaps the most difficult is the sheer unreasonableness of it. Grace is not fair! I want the kids who are listening to be surprised and even upset with the unfairness of Hugh being forgiven. He did a terrible thing, felt no real remorse, and there is every reason to believe that he will do something like this again. Honestly, you don’t have to probe very deeply into the message to realize that we are all Hugh. “What would you do if you were Hugh?” is not just a cute lyric. We all are rebellious sinners who are largely without remorse. So, why would anyone extend grace to someone like that? Why would anyone forgive a debt like this? We have a God who loves us unreasonably. There is no accounting for why He has done for us what He has. He just loves His children beyond reason! God satisfied His justice in order to provide for our forgiveness. A sacrifice was required, so He gave one; Christ died in our place. God cares more for our hearts and our relationship with Him than He cares for hard, cold justice. That astounding thought must be pondered long and hard.
A: Hugh accidentally set fire to the mansion while playing with firecrackers and matches. Q: What ... Q: Hugh did not love Mrs. Collins the way Gooz did.
NOTE TO PARENTS/TEACHERS: The goal of this questions-and-answers section is to initiate interaction between you and your kids. Please do not just read the ...
This is a dangerous deception. It certainly is better to live good lives than lawless, selfish ones, but this only makes us better citizensâit doesn't save us. If we have sinned even once, we are infected with a fatal spiritual virus called âsin.
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They were not looking for a big spiritual battle to take on, but they were indeed in the middle of oneâand they never even realized it. Do you think this is a rare.
... one skirmish in a larger spiritual battle. We must begin to see it as such. Therefore, we must be willing to fight for truth even if we have to stand alone to do it.
cloud our senses. Over time as we hold onto and dwell on temptation, ... âIâ Check (Personal Application). 1. C.J. asked Captain Horatio if he could take care of ...
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[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things ... We did not grasp what Christ was offering the first time we heard about His gift of.
consequences for us and for other people here on earth, all sin, even the smallest sin, separates us spiritually ... If it's all covered, what difference does it make?
Q: When people have something âwrongâ with them, like C.J.'s eye, is it a sign that they did something wrong or that their parents did something wrong?
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(By boat, plane, train, etc.) A: Joey arrived on the train. Q: What is the real reason Joey came to visit? A: Joey came to stay with Hugh because his mother was in the hospital. Heart Check (Spiritual Application). Q: The Bible says âDo not fearâ
Q: Name one of the titles Dr. Theron had on his wagon. A: Pharmacist ... If I want to become famous so that people will love and admire me, these are also bad ...
practice it, to get better at using it, and hopefully to gain wisdom as we go. Even Jesus's ... Another theme present in this episode concerns C.J.'s bad eye.
God Is Always with Us, Working out His Plan for Us. Key Verse ... This episode is also the set-up for âThe Story of Esther,â our first biblical epic. The theme for this ...
process. Once that is accomplished, you can then translate them into appropriate answers for your kids. Lesson. Being a Good Steward of God's Gifts. Key Verse.
Most often, it creeps in slowly and quietly like a fog. The old illustration of the frog and the hot water comes to mind. If you place a frog into hot water, he will jump ...
However, drowning people still need saving, so the lifeguards are trained to deal with their reactions. ... of the best ways to communicate God's love is to show them that we love them. It's our secret ... with God that Christ alone offers. David B.
child is not forced to? A: Because it is so much better in the long run for a child to learn to submit. ... What would you have done if Tiffany began making nasty jokes about your ... illustration of the nature and consequences of a child's rebellion
How do you think Tiffany's wealth contributed to her rebellious attitude and behavior? Is it bad to be wealthy? ... In our culture, however, rebellion has become a.
NOTE TO PARENTS/TEACHERS: The goal of this questions-and-answers section is to initiate interaction between you and your kids. Please do not just read the questions and answers to your kids. These answers are given for you at an adult level to think
Q: C.J. lied about having found the baseball glove, but it took a while to build up to it. What was going on up to ... temptation and the theme of âThe Lighthouse.â.
