Well our groups are about to begin again. High school students will meet on Sunday nights from 6:30pm-8:00pm. Jr. High students will meet on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm-8:15pm. I hope this will be a year of spiritual growth for our students as they are challenged to live out Romans 12, which calls us to give our lives as a living sacrifice to God, to be transformed and seek to do what pleases Him.
This year our Jr. high students will be learning what it means to abide in Jesus. We'll be talking about what it means to be a "new creation", to walk with Christ daily. We'll talk about how to trust in God through different times in out life and how to be satisfied in Jesus. It's my desire to see students move deeper in their walk with Christ as they learn to walk with him daily.
Romans 12 calls us to discern God's will and to know what is good and acceptable to him. Our high school group will be spending the year learning how to use God's word to understand how God would want us to respond and act to a variety of situations. We will discover what the Bible teaches us about everything from truth and what it is, to abortion and economics.
This promises to be an exciting year. I'm looking forward to seeing how God will work in the lives of our students this year!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
End of Summer... Already?
Well the heat's not over but for many school is about to begin. For those of us in Tulare this summer hasn't been all that hot yet it seems like over the summer there have been some very hot topics in the news. In CA one major event was the passage of SB48 which mandates the use of "textbooks and other teaching materials that cover the contributions and roles of sexual minorities" (sfexaminer.com), namely the LGBT community. The bill has been presented as an effort to stop the bullying of people living a LGBT lifestyle. The problem for many Christians myself included, is the effort to portray what I believe is morally wrong, as being totally normal and right. Needless to say there has been much heated debate as to the merits of implementing SB48. I don't see the debate ending anytime soon even though this has been signed into law. So now as Christians we are faced with the question of how to respond with truth and love, not backing down from our convictions. It is hard as an adult and will be even tougher for our kids as they are immersed into a culture that rejects God's standards.
The other topic that has more recently dominated the national news scene is the "debt crisis". What should the country do to save the economy and keep from defaulting on our nations debt. Do we simply raise the debt limit borrow more in crease taxes or do we cut spending to match the revenue that currently comes in. There has been a lot of worry and anxiety about what the future holds, and many dire predictions as to what it might. I hope as Christians that we don't get to caught up in this. Our trust and hope is not in our government or the money that our country does or doesn't have. Our security is in Christ through whom we've been reconciled to God and have eternal life him. I hope we don't get to downtrodden about the temporary and forget about the eternal. We must press on and run the race with endurance to the end keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:14)
The other topic that has more recently dominated the national news scene is the "debt crisis". What should the country do to save the economy and keep from defaulting on our nations debt. Do we simply raise the debt limit borrow more in crease taxes or do we cut spending to match the revenue that currently comes in. There has been a lot of worry and anxiety about what the future holds, and many dire predictions as to what it might. I hope as Christians that we don't get to caught up in this. Our trust and hope is not in our government or the money that our country does or doesn't have. Our security is in Christ through whom we've been reconciled to God and have eternal life him. I hope we don't get to downtrodden about the temporary and forget about the eternal. We must press on and run the race with endurance to the end keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:14)
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