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“You do not have, because you do not ask.” – James 4:2
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” – Matthew 18:19-20
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – Matthew 6:33
This Saturday night (February 6th), a group of us are meeting at 8:30pm up in the YouthRoom for a time of prayer for our Church and our youth. As the video below explains, prayer changes things — so let us be faithful in bowing our knees and our hearts down to the Lord who alone has the power to work great things in us for his glory. As we talked about last night in the YouthRoom, the one we claim to worship — Jesus Christ — was radical. He died outside of the city, and if we are to look like him, we must go to him outside the camp and bear his reproach (Hebrews 13:12-13). You want to know what spiritual dynamite looks like?….Start praying…
‘Hank
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Dating v. Maturity
So, lets think about this “dating culture” that we live in. Hopefully this sparks some thoughts and conversations from you. For your viewing, here’s a video from Pastor Mark Driscoll on dating:
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Lots of stuff going on this Sunday. Of course, we’ve got another week of Cross-Training planned! This week we’ll be talking about how we knew there had to be a Cross, and why Jesus knew he had to die. Your salvation and mine hinges on the events that happened at this Cross, so you’re not going to want to miss this week!
Also, if we have time, we’re going to talk about (and see pictures!) of our adopted orphan, Oliver, that we are supporting through Compassion International. We got all his information in the mail this week, and so we can start writing him letters and sending him stuff as soon as we want. That being said, don’t forget to bring your 50 cents so we can keep raising enough to support him this month!
And finally, plan on taking a few pictures with the youth group so we can put them in the new Church directory that is coming out. We will either do this in youth, or right after church, so don’t forget to hang around long enough to get it done. Also, the Kitchen committee is doing a “Stove Fundraiser” this Sunday after church, so if you want to hang around and eat lunch with everybody downstairs, bring $7 for a ticket and meet us in the basement after church.
“To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory…For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.” – Colossians 1:27,29
Love y’all,
Hank
This Wednesday night in the YouthRoom, Drew will be teaching out of 1 Peter 2:1-12. It’s gonna be freezing cold outside, so plan on coming at 6pm to get some awesome, hot home-cooking down stairs — and then heading up to the YouthRoom at 7pm for some awesome, soul-stirring teaching! This week we’ll find out how God describes YOU in the Bible, how we are called to respond because of it, and we’ll learn how to see the things that don’t define a life renewed by Jesus Christ.
Plus, if you didn’t get your 30-Hour Famine info and fundraising packet last week, you can pick it up Wednesday night. And we’ll be watching a promo video to get us pumped for the 30-hours of fasting and prayer! It’s going to be thebomb.com/awesome.
Be there.
‘Hank
“Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.” – Hosea 6:1
Christians, we should tremble more. But I know why we don’t. And so do you.
If we could only see the depths of our wickedness. How dirty we are. How unlovable. How unworthy. Constantly overflowing with our own sinful desires. Even in the midst of so great a salvation, we take our relationship to God for granted…
As if God owes us his love. As if he owes us the power of prayer. As if he owes us forgiveness. As if he owes us even common grace – in the sunlight of a autumn afternoon, or the starlight of a cool summer night. God owes us nothing – besides a just judgment and condemnation of our sin and rebellion.
It makes me wonder…how does God do it? How can he look past my constant rejection of Him, and my inbred idolatrous nature? How does he deal with my lip service and half hearted displays of affection towards him, and still see my double-minded heart? How does he not cut me off every time I shrug off his omnipresent grace?
If we were honest with ourselves, it is very seldom (if ever) we love God with ourwhole heart. We are an arrogant, half-hearted people – with a complaining spirit, and fallen minds.
But God is faithful to us, even in the midst of our unfaithfulness to him. Seriously, you have to ask yourself, how does God do it?
Hosea 6:1 points us to the answer: God does it through Christ. It’s all through Christ. All the good, all the forgiveness, all the grace, all the love, all the mercy, all the blessings, all the faith – all mediated to us, through Christ. We know God through Christ. We are reconciled to God through Christ. We are made right, and righteous before God, through Christ. And only inasmuch as we are IN CHRIST can we ever be pleasing to God. Our very presence (not to mention our so-called Christian life) would be repulsive to him, if not for the cleansing and covering that we have in Jesus Christ.
If you don’t know this Jesus, come to Youth this Wednesday and let’s talk. If you do know Him, get on your knees today and thank Him for the healing that comes to you in Him.
‘Hank