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March 7, 2010
180 NEWS
Small Groups
It's March, and small groups meet again this Sunday night from 7-8. See you there!
HS Paintball Retreat
Download this flier for our High School Paintball retreat, coming the last weekend of Spring Break, Thursday-Saturday, March 25-27.
MS Spring Retreat @ Camp Tadmor
Download this flier for our Mid School retreat, coming Coming up April 9-11!
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
For those of you at home on Friday, March 26, we encourage you to check out the Rock & Worship Roadshow, featuring bands such as David Crowder, Mercy Me, Family Force 5, and more! The concert is only $10 at the door, so get there early!
SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made." (Psalm 145:15-17)
Without God, nobody eats. Without God, nobody sleeps, breathes, has sex, or comes home to their kids at the end of the day. Without God, we have nothing.
Truthfully, we take God for granted because He meets our needs and grants our desires for sustenance (and so much more) so consistently that we mostly don't even think to ask HIm for those things -- until we're running dangerously low.
But every meal, every pleasant moment, every good thing is a gift from Him to us, because He is "loving toward all He has made." Do we always get exactly what we want all the time? No. What tyrants we would be! But every good thing we get that we do want is something He has given to us.
Will you praise the God who gives you everything today?
Think: Why do you think we so often forget that every good thing we have and enjoy in our lives is a gift from God? And when we do remember, why do you think we forget that He gives them to us because He loves us?
Pray: Praise God that He is righteous in all His ways and loving toward all He has made.
Do: Another potential memory verse for your list: James 1:17.
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.
FORGETTABLE FACT
Only female bees work
POTENT QUOTABLES
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Plato
UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What do you get if you cross an elephant and a kangaroo?
Big holes all over Australia!
Small Groups
It's March, and small groups meet again this Sunday night from 7-8. See you there!
HS Paintball Retreat
Download this flier for our High School Paintball retreat, coming the last weekend of Spring Break, Thursday-Saturday, March 25-27.
MS Spring Retreat @ Camp Tadmor
Download this flier for our Mid School retreat, coming Coming up April 9-11!
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
For those of you at home on Friday, March 26, we encourage you to check out the Rock & Worship Roadshow, featuring bands such as David Crowder, Mercy Me, Family Force 5, and more! The concert is only $10 at the door, so get there early!
SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made." (Psalm 145:15-17)
Without God, nobody eats. Without God, nobody sleeps, breathes, has sex, or comes home to their kids at the end of the day. Without God, we have nothing.
Truthfully, we take God for granted because He meets our needs and grants our desires for sustenance (and so much more) so consistently that we mostly don't even think to ask HIm for those things -- until we're running dangerously low.
But every meal, every pleasant moment, every good thing is a gift from Him to us, because He is "loving toward all He has made." Do we always get exactly what we want all the time? No. What tyrants we would be! But every good thing we get that we do want is something He has given to us.
Will you praise the God who gives you everything today?
Think: Why do you think we so often forget that every good thing we have and enjoy in our lives is a gift from God? And when we do remember, why do you think we forget that He gives them to us because He loves us?
Pray: Praise God that He is righteous in all His ways and loving toward all He has made.
Do: Another potential memory verse for your list: James 1:17.
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.
FORGETTABLE FACT
Only female bees work
POTENT QUOTABLES
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Plato
UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What do you get if you cross an elephant and a kangaroo?
Big holes all over Australia!
March 1, 2010
180 NEWS
Famine Pictures
Wow! What a weekend! This year's 30 Hour Famine took it's physical toll, but we learned much and heard from God. If you still have Famine Funds to turn in, please do so this week. We'll get even more pictures online soon, but check these out now!
Small Groups
It's March, and small groups meet again this Sunday night from 7-8. See you there!
HS Paintball Retreat
Look soon for a flier on our High School Paintball retreat, coming the last weekend of Spring Break, Thursday-Saturday, March 25-27.
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
For those of you at home on Friday, March 26, we encourage you to check out the Rock & Worship Roadshow, featuring bands such as David Crowder, Mercy Me, Family Force 5, and more! The concert is only $10 at the door, so get there early!
SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.' " (Acts 1:10-11)
You almost feel bad for the disciples. They're always playing catch-up to whatever Jesus is talking about or doing, right up to the very end. He tells them not to leave Jerusalem. He says the Holy Spirit will come on them and give them power. He says they will be His witnesses everywhere.
Then He flies up into a cloud! Then some angels show up and say, "Why are you looking at that cloud?" Because Jesus just disappeared into it, that's why!
But Jesus knew they needed more answers: So He sent these two angels to fill in the gaps. To let them know He was gone to heaven. And to let them know He's coming back in the same way someday. To let them know the story isn't over, yet.
What now? Use the power of the Holy Spirit to be Jesus' witness in this world. And keep watching the sky, getting prepared, waiting for Him to come back and make everything right once and for all.
Think: Do you have an expectation that Jesus could come back "in the same way" at any moment? If you did, how would that change the way you live today?
Pray: Thank God that Jesus is coming back someday. Ask Him to help you to live like it could be today.
Do: Read on in Acts for the wild, amazing story of the early days of the Christian church.
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.
SURF REPORT
Book Review: Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
Music Review: Revelation by Third Day
FORGETTABLE FACT
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
POTENT QUOTABLES
All kings is mostly rapscallions.
~ Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What do you call a song sung in an automobile?
A cartoon.
Famine Pictures
Wow! What a weekend! This year's 30 Hour Famine took it's physical toll, but we learned much and heard from God. If you still have Famine Funds to turn in, please do so this week. We'll get even more pictures online soon, but check these out now!
Small Groups
It's March, and small groups meet again this Sunday night from 7-8. See you there!
HS Paintball Retreat
Look soon for a flier on our High School Paintball retreat, coming the last weekend of Spring Break, Thursday-Saturday, March 25-27.
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
For those of you at home on Friday, March 26, we encourage you to check out the Rock & Worship Roadshow, featuring bands such as David Crowder, Mercy Me, Family Force 5, and more! The concert is only $10 at the door, so get there early!
SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.' " (Acts 1:10-11)
You almost feel bad for the disciples. They're always playing catch-up to whatever Jesus is talking about or doing, right up to the very end. He tells them not to leave Jerusalem. He says the Holy Spirit will come on them and give them power. He says they will be His witnesses everywhere.
Then He flies up into a cloud! Then some angels show up and say, "Why are you looking at that cloud?" Because Jesus just disappeared into it, that's why!
But Jesus knew they needed more answers: So He sent these two angels to fill in the gaps. To let them know He was gone to heaven. And to let them know He's coming back in the same way someday. To let them know the story isn't over, yet.
What now? Use the power of the Holy Spirit to be Jesus' witness in this world. And keep watching the sky, getting prepared, waiting for Him to come back and make everything right once and for all.
Think: Do you have an expectation that Jesus could come back "in the same way" at any moment? If you did, how would that change the way you live today?
Pray: Thank God that Jesus is coming back someday. Ask Him to help you to live like it could be today.
Do: Read on in Acts for the wild, amazing story of the early days of the Christian church.
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.
SURF REPORT
Book Review: Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
Music Review: Revelation by Third Day
FORGETTABLE FACT
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
POTENT QUOTABLES
All kings is mostly rapscallions.
~ Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What do you call a song sung in an automobile?
A cartoon.
