March 9, 2009
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Birthdays
4. Surf Report
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Uh, That's Funny?
1. 180 NEWS
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
March 22 is less than 2 weeks away! Mercy Me, Jeremy Camp, Hawk Nelson, Tenth Avenue North and Addison Road are coming to the Memorial Coliseum for a night of rock and worship! Bart Millard of Mercy Me will also speak during the night.
Great news is it only costs $10. Sign up on the sheet in the youth center if you plan go attend. What a great way to kick off your Spring Break, and a great event for a friend to attend!
One important note: We are changing our start time to 4PM to give us a better chance at good seats.
The Great Easter Egg Stuff
Easter Super Saturday is approaching and we need your help! Want to use some of your time off from school to serve? Monday, March 23 from 10 - 12:30, come stuff Easter eggs with candy and tickets for the egg hunts on Easter Super Saturday. If you come, Chelsea will feed you...or rather she will provide lunch and you can feed yourself. ;)
Read Through the Bible
This week begins another look at Jesus' time here on earth in the book of Luke. If you haven't joined in with us yet, now is a great time!
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Serious Sin
"In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood." (Hebrews 12:4)
We may not admit it out loud, but I think most of us carry around with us a kind of rating scale for sin. We all know the big ones: rape, murder, adultery, etc. But our list of "little" ones is very different: lying to parents, impure thoughts, envy, gossip, arrogance. Eh, everybody does them. Not a big deal. We're all forgiven, right?
It's tough to carry that attitude toward sin (even little ones) too far into Hebrews 12. Today's verse should grab us by the shirt and shake us up a little. It's possible the writer is referring to a resistance against "sinful men" or persecution, but it starts a passage about how seriously God takes sin in the lives of Christians.
One thing it tells me is that I should be struggling against my sin. I don't know how often we do that. The point isn't that we should be perfectly sinless already; we're still growing. The point is that we should be in the fight. We should expect it to be a fight. We should expect the "want" to sin to fight back every time we stand up and say, "No, I'm going the other way."
Then this crazy idea: Whether facing persecution or facing down my own sinful desires, the fight is against sin and it can get bloody. Pain and blood always raise the stakes of a fight. Are we just in the fight against our own sin until it gets inconvenient -- or even when it gets deeply painful?
Think: What's the furthest you've ever gone in standing up against your own desire to sin?
Pray: Ask God to help you come up with braver and bolder strategies for saying no to sin.
Do: Pick a sin or two you struggle with and write down a new battle plan for winning your next encounter with that impulse.
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A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2009 Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission.
3. BIRTHDAYS
This week brings us 2 big birthdays, so give it up for Shannon Laughlin and Tyson Mangelsdorf! Happy birthday guys!
4. SURF REPORT
- Street Fighter Movie Review
~ Review of Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
~ Socrates
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
~ Anne Frank
7. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
Knock Knock!
~ Who's there?
Lass.
~ Lass who?
That's what cowboys use, isn't it?
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Birthdays
4. Surf Report
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Uh, That's Funny?
1. 180 NEWS
The Rock & Worship Roadshow
March 22 is less than 2 weeks away! Mercy Me, Jeremy Camp, Hawk Nelson, Tenth Avenue North and Addison Road are coming to the Memorial Coliseum for a night of rock and worship! Bart Millard of Mercy Me will also speak during the night.Great news is it only costs $10. Sign up on the sheet in the youth center if you plan go attend. What a great way to kick off your Spring Break, and a great event for a friend to attend!
One important note: We are changing our start time to 4PM to give us a better chance at good seats.
The Great Easter Egg Stuff
Easter Super Saturday is approaching and we need your help! Want to use some of your time off from school to serve? Monday, March 23 from 10 - 12:30, come stuff Easter eggs with candy and tickets for the egg hunts on Easter Super Saturday. If you come, Chelsea will feed you...or rather she will provide lunch and you can feed yourself. ;)
Read Through the Bible
This week begins another look at Jesus' time here on earth in the book of Luke. If you haven't joined in with us yet, now is a great time!
| Day | Leviticus | Psalms | Luke |
| Tuesday, March 10 | 17-18 | 119:41-80 | 1 |
| Wednesday, March 11 | 19 | 119:81-128 | 2 |
| Thursday, March 12 | 20 | 119:129-176 | 3 |
| Friday, March 13 | 21 | 120-124 | 4 |
| Saturday, March 14 | 22 | 125-127 | 5 |
| Sunday, March 15 | 23 | 128-130 | 6 |
| Monday, March 16 | 24 | 131-134 | 7 |
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Serious Sin
"In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood." (Hebrews 12:4)
We may not admit it out loud, but I think most of us carry around with us a kind of rating scale for sin. We all know the big ones: rape, murder, adultery, etc. But our list of "little" ones is very different: lying to parents, impure thoughts, envy, gossip, arrogance. Eh, everybody does them. Not a big deal. We're all forgiven, right?
It's tough to carry that attitude toward sin (even little ones) too far into Hebrews 12. Today's verse should grab us by the shirt and shake us up a little. It's possible the writer is referring to a resistance against "sinful men" or persecution, but it starts a passage about how seriously God takes sin in the lives of Christians.
One thing it tells me is that I should be struggling against my sin. I don't know how often we do that. The point isn't that we should be perfectly sinless already; we're still growing. The point is that we should be in the fight. We should expect it to be a fight. We should expect the "want" to sin to fight back every time we stand up and say, "No, I'm going the other way."
Then this crazy idea: Whether facing persecution or facing down my own sinful desires, the fight is against sin and it can get bloody. Pain and blood always raise the stakes of a fight. Are we just in the fight against our own sin until it gets inconvenient -- or even when it gets deeply painful?
Think: What's the furthest you've ever gone in standing up against your own desire to sin?
Pray: Ask God to help you come up with braver and bolder strategies for saying no to sin.
Do: Pick a sin or two you struggle with and write down a new battle plan for winning your next encounter with that impulse.
**
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2009 Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission.
3. BIRTHDAYS
This week brings us 2 big birthdays, so give it up for Shannon Laughlin and Tyson Mangelsdorf! Happy birthday guys!
4. SURF REPORT
- Street Fighter Movie Review
~ Review of Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
~ Socrates
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
~ Anne Frank
7. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
Knock Knock!
~ Who's there?
Lass.
~ Lass who?
That's what cowboys use, isn't it?
