May 19, 2009
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Uh, That's Funny?
1. 180 NEWS
New Music
The 180 CD library just expanded! In need of some good music that will encourage you in your faith? Just check out our CD library right of the stage in the Youth Center. New this week is:
Brenton Brown - Because of Your Love
Confide - Shout the Truth
FM Static - Dear Diary
Hip Hope - Hits 2009
Mat Kearney - City of Black & White
Newsboys In the Hands of God
Robert Pierre - Identity
Shirock - Everything Burns
Want to win some free music? Write us at (newsletter@180students.com) and tell us one of your favorite Christian songs and how it has helped you in your walk with Christ and you'll be entered in a drawing to win the Rockin' Road Tunes 2009 Music Sampler. The CD features music from Tenth Avenue North, Family Force 5, John Reuben and more on 19 great tracks!
Bible Read Through
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"Keep on loving each other as brothers." (Hebrews 13:1)
Some people measure Christianity as a collection of "don't" statements. Even some Christians seem to think that a relationship with God is mostly about what we do NOT do. By that logic, the best Christian would be the one who never does anything at all.
But the writer of Hebrews, after making the case for faith in Jesus as the only way to receive God's grace, ends his long letter with a command cluster of DO statements. His point is that our faith should compel us to take action -- to DO something and not just sit there.
This week, we'll look at 7 things Jesus followers can go and do -- because we are Jesus followers. The first is familiar: Keep loving other Christians like brothers. We are family. Real family, God's family, loves with the forgiving, patient, understanding, grace-giving, helping hand, showing up, not letting go love of Jesus.
Let's go and do that today.
Think: Have you ever been tempted to define your relationship with God by what you do NOT do? Why is a don't list an unhealthy way to measure what it means to follow Jesus?
Pray: Ask God to help you to keep on loving other believers as brothers.
Do: Make a list of 3 specific ways you could show the love of Jesus to some other Christians this week.
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A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2009 Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission.
3. SURF REPORT
- Angels and Demons Review
- Marked Review
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot… and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why...I succeed.
—Michael Jordan
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
—Pearl S. Buck
6. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What did one magnet say to the other?
I find you very attractive.
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Uh, That's Funny?
1. 180 NEWS
New Music
The 180 CD library just expanded! In need of some good music that will encourage you in your faith? Just check out our CD library right of the stage in the Youth Center. New this week is:
Brenton Brown - Because of Your Love
Confide - Shout the Truth
FM Static - Dear Diary
Hip Hope - Hits 2009
Mat Kearney - City of Black & White
Newsboys In the Hands of God
Robert Pierre - Identity
Shirock - Everything Burns
Want to win some free music? Write us at (newsletter@180students.com) and tell us one of your favorite Christian songs and how it has helped you in your walk with Christ and you'll be entered in a drawing to win the Rockin' Road Tunes 2009 Music Sampler. The CD features music from Tenth Avenue North, Family Force 5, John Reuben and more on 19 great tracks!
Bible Read Through
| Day | Joshua | Isaiah | 1 Thessalonians |
| Tuesday, May 19 | 3-4 | 9 | 5 |
| Wednesday, May 20 | 5-6 | 10 | 2 Thessalonians 1-2 |
| Thursday, May 21 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Friday, May 22 | 8 | 12 | 1 Timothy 1-3 |
| Saturday, May 23 | 9 | 13 | 4-5 |
| Sunday, May 24 | 10 | 14 | 6 |
| Monday, May 25 | 11 | 15 | 2 Timothy 1 |
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"Keep on loving each other as brothers." (Hebrews 13:1)
Some people measure Christianity as a collection of "don't" statements. Even some Christians seem to think that a relationship with God is mostly about what we do NOT do. By that logic, the best Christian would be the one who never does anything at all.
But the writer of Hebrews, after making the case for faith in Jesus as the only way to receive God's grace, ends his long letter with a command cluster of DO statements. His point is that our faith should compel us to take action -- to DO something and not just sit there.
This week, we'll look at 7 things Jesus followers can go and do -- because we are Jesus followers. The first is familiar: Keep loving other Christians like brothers. We are family. Real family, God's family, loves with the forgiving, patient, understanding, grace-giving, helping hand, showing up, not letting go love of Jesus.
Let's go and do that today.
Think: Have you ever been tempted to define your relationship with God by what you do NOT do? Why is a don't list an unhealthy way to measure what it means to follow Jesus?
Pray: Ask God to help you to keep on loving other believers as brothers.
Do: Make a list of 3 specific ways you could show the love of Jesus to some other Christians this week.
**
A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2009 Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission.
3. SURF REPORT
- Angels and Demons Review
- Marked Review
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot… and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why...I succeed.
—Michael Jordan
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
—Pearl S. Buck
6. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What did one magnet say to the other?
I find you very attractive.
