September 25, 2006
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthdays
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
MS Fall Retreat
Hey Middle Schoolers this Sunday is the registration deadline for our Fall Retreat! On the weekend of October 6-8 we head off to Camp Tadmor for our annual Fall Retreat!
What can you expect? Great times with friends, incredible night games, exciting worship, great encounters with God, the Giant Swing, the Lake Race, Great speaker, and so much more!
We will leave the church on Friday at 4:30 and return on Sunday at 4:00. The cost is only $80 and is due by Sunday, October 1. Don't miss out on this awesome weekend!
Click here to see all the pictures from last year's Fall Retreat.
Please do not let money stand in the way of you and the Fall Retreat. If money is an issue please talk to Pastor Brian right away.
See You At The Pole
See You at the Pole™ is a student-initiated, student organized, and student-led event. That means this is all about students meeting at their school flagpole to pray—for their school, friends teachers, government, and their nation. See You at the Pole™ is not a demonstration, political rally, nor a stand for or against anything.
On September 27, be sure to join with other students around the flagpole of your school an hour before school starts, to pray, and then watch God move!
That night both middle school and high school groups will be meeting in the Youth Center from 7:00 to 8:30 for a special SYATP ralley and worship time. Even if you do not participate in the morning event, please join us! This event always proves to be a powerful night and one you won't want to miss! There will be no Danger Zone the following night. Middle schoolers please join on that Wednesday night.
No Danger Zone
As alluded to above, there will be no middle school Danger Zone this week. Please join us on Wednesday night.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
IF ONLY SOMEBODY HAD ASKED ME...
By Sam
People say love makes you blind. I think it makes you blind and a little stupid.
I loved Dee. She was so beautiful and fun. And best of all, she loved me too. But maybe that's where the blindness comes in.
See, I was under a Nazirite vow, which meant that if I stayed away from wine, dead bodies, unclean food, and never cut off my hair, I'd be super strong. It made me so strong that one time I killed a thousand guys from Philistia called Philistines. I was so strong that I led the people of Israel for twenty years. Even when the Philistines tried to capture me, I snuck out, and demolished part of their city.
Back to our love story...
The Philistines were pretty ticked at me, so it turns out that they went to Dee and asked her what made me so strong. Since she didn't know, they said they'd give her a bunch of cash if she found out and told them.
Three times she tried to get me to tell her what made me so strong. Each time I lied to her. I don't know why--maybe it was my own intuition, or maybe it was God. But I just knew that I shouldn't tell her what made me so strong.
But boy was she a whiner. She argued, "Sam, how can you say, 'I love you' when you won't tell me your secrets?" Day after day, she nagged me.
Finally, I told her everything. If anyone shaves my head, my strength would hit the road and I'd be like a normal guy.
That night she made me a really romantic dinner. And afterwards, I was so full that I fell asleep. I guess she let some Philistine guys into my house, and one of them shaved my head. They pounced on me, and when I tried to fight back, they beat me up. Normally I could have taken all eight of them with one hand tied behind my back, but this time I was too weak.
So here I sit in prison. All because I told my true love about my true strength.
I wish I had told my friends what Dee was up to. They probably would have been smarter than me and warned me.
And I wish Joey would have hung out more with me and asked me more questions about our relationship. He only lives a few doors down, but he's just so busy.
If only someone had asked me what was going on with Dee. If only someone had asked me how I was doing.
**
If you haven't guessed it by now, Sam is actually Samson, and Dee is actually Delilah. You can red their full story in the Bible in Judges 13-16. One warning: it's not a very happy ending. It'd probably get at least a PG-13 raging. Samson's hair grows back a bit, and when the Philistines take him into their temple, he pushes hard on the temple pillars, and the whole building comes tumbling down. He kills over 1,000 people, including himself. Makes you wonder, "If only someone had asked him...".
Taken from "Mirror, Mirror" by Kara Powell and Kendall Payne, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ See You at the Pole
This Wednesday join thousands of other students praying on their campuses
~ Movie Gallery Student Video Competition
Get in on this filmmaking contest for high school and college students
4. BIRTHDAYS
We've got THREE birthday shout outs this week! We are wishing BIG 180 Birthday Wishes to Matt Brooks, Callie Freitag, and Amanda Ranney this week!
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
Pigs can run a mile in 7-1/2 minutes
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is."
- Charles Spurgeon
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom
===========our|sponsor===========
"I hate my body."
"My hair never looks right."
"I can't stand looking at myself in the mirror."
Sound familiar? Probably. You (and millions of other young women) are buying into what our image-oriented society says you should look like--and how you measure up to others.
"Mirror, Mirror" will blow the top off of what you think and believe about beauty, self-image, acceptance, health, sex, God's love, and more. Filled with cool tips, fun-facts, quizzes, tough discussion questions, surveys, real-life stories and confessions, this is the book for setting the record straight on who God created you to be!
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthdays
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
MS Fall Retreat
Hey Middle Schoolers this Sunday is the registration deadline for our Fall Retreat! On the weekend of October 6-8 we head off to Camp Tadmor for our annual Fall Retreat!
What can you expect? Great times with friends, incredible night games, exciting worship, great encounters with God, the Giant Swing, the Lake Race, Great speaker, and so much more!
We will leave the church on Friday at 4:30 and return on Sunday at 4:00. The cost is only $80 and is due by Sunday, October 1. Don't miss out on this awesome weekend!
Click here to see all the pictures from last year's Fall Retreat.Please do not let money stand in the way of you and the Fall Retreat. If money is an issue please talk to Pastor Brian right away.
See You At The Pole
See You at the Pole™ is a student-initiated, student organized, and student-led event. That means this is all about students meeting at their school flagpole to pray—for their school, friends teachers, government, and their nation. See You at the Pole™ is not a demonstration, political rally, nor a stand for or against anything.
On September 27, be sure to join with other students around the flagpole of your school an hour before school starts, to pray, and then watch God move!
That night both middle school and high school groups will be meeting in the Youth Center from 7:00 to 8:30 for a special SYATP ralley and worship time. Even if you do not participate in the morning event, please join us! This event always proves to be a powerful night and one you won't want to miss! There will be no Danger Zone the following night. Middle schoolers please join on that Wednesday night.
No Danger Zone
As alluded to above, there will be no middle school Danger Zone this week. Please join us on Wednesday night.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
IF ONLY SOMEBODY HAD ASKED ME...
By Sam
People say love makes you blind. I think it makes you blind and a little stupid.
I loved Dee. She was so beautiful and fun. And best of all, she loved me too. But maybe that's where the blindness comes in.
See, I was under a Nazirite vow, which meant that if I stayed away from wine, dead bodies, unclean food, and never cut off my hair, I'd be super strong. It made me so strong that one time I killed a thousand guys from Philistia called Philistines. I was so strong that I led the people of Israel for twenty years. Even when the Philistines tried to capture me, I snuck out, and demolished part of their city.
Back to our love story...
The Philistines were pretty ticked at me, so it turns out that they went to Dee and asked her what made me so strong. Since she didn't know, they said they'd give her a bunch of cash if she found out and told them.
Three times she tried to get me to tell her what made me so strong. Each time I lied to her. I don't know why--maybe it was my own intuition, or maybe it was God. But I just knew that I shouldn't tell her what made me so strong.
But boy was she a whiner. She argued, "Sam, how can you say, 'I love you' when you won't tell me your secrets?" Day after day, she nagged me.
Finally, I told her everything. If anyone shaves my head, my strength would hit the road and I'd be like a normal guy.
That night she made me a really romantic dinner. And afterwards, I was so full that I fell asleep. I guess she let some Philistine guys into my house, and one of them shaved my head. They pounced on me, and when I tried to fight back, they beat me up. Normally I could have taken all eight of them with one hand tied behind my back, but this time I was too weak.
So here I sit in prison. All because I told my true love about my true strength.
I wish I had told my friends what Dee was up to. They probably would have been smarter than me and warned me.
And I wish Joey would have hung out more with me and asked me more questions about our relationship. He only lives a few doors down, but he's just so busy.
If only someone had asked me what was going on with Dee. If only someone had asked me how I was doing.
**
If you haven't guessed it by now, Sam is actually Samson, and Dee is actually Delilah. You can red their full story in the Bible in Judges 13-16. One warning: it's not a very happy ending. It'd probably get at least a PG-13 raging. Samson's hair grows back a bit, and when the Philistines take him into their temple, he pushes hard on the temple pillars, and the whole building comes tumbling down. He kills over 1,000 people, including himself. Makes you wonder, "If only someone had asked him...".
Taken from "Mirror, Mirror" by Kara Powell and Kendall Payne, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ See You at the Pole
This Wednesday join thousands of other students praying on their campuses
~ Movie Gallery Student Video Competition
Get in on this filmmaking contest for high school and college students
4. BIRTHDAYS
We've got THREE birthday shout outs this week! We are wishing BIG 180 Birthday Wishes to Matt Brooks, Callie Freitag, and Amanda Ranney this week!
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
Pigs can run a mile in 7-1/2 minutes
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is."
- Charles Spurgeon
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom
===========our|sponsor===========
"I hate my body."
"My hair never looks right."
"I can't stand looking at myself in the mirror."
Sound familiar? Probably. You (and millions of other young women) are buying into what our image-oriented society says you should look like--and how you measure up to others.
"Mirror, Mirror" will blow the top off of what you think and believe about beauty, self-image, acceptance, health, sex, God's love, and more. Filled with cool tips, fun-facts, quizzes, tough discussion questions, surveys, real-life stories and confessions, this is the book for setting the record straight on who God created you to be!
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
