Purpose: To show the importance of keeping God at the center of life.

Materials: A small toy car with a friction motor. Several large cardboard disks, glued together. A pencil. Drill a hole, the diameter of the pencil, through the center of the disk; and drill another hole about one inch off the center.

Lesson: By just looking at this toy car, you cannot tell what kind it is; but when I spin the wheels, the sound tells you that this is a special kind of car. Once you have the wheels turning fast, they will continue to run for quite a while. The reason for this is that within the car are several other wheels. Some of these wheels have what we call teeth. They are gears. The teeth of one wheel mesh with the teeth of another wheel and, as the first wheel turns, it makes the second one go ar…