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The Waiting.
This season we have celebrated advent in some powerful ways. I hope you continue this celebration as you go through the holiday season.
Advent is about more than the birth of Jesus. Advent is the celebration that Jesus came and that he will come again!
Read our passages that we have explored again, and don’t forget to light a candle for Christ on Christmas morning.
Advent Season:
Week 1- Hope
Romans 15:4-13
Week 2- Love
Romans 13:8-14
Week 3- Joy
Romans 8:18-25
Week 4- Peace
Romans 1:1-7
Add comment December 17, 2008
Self-Control
“I can do what I should instead of what I want.”
There are a lot of choices for us to make. We must choose what food we like. We must choose what music to listen to. We have choices concerning the television shows, video games, and movies we watch.
The choices you make say something about you. They also say something about your God.
When Daniel was faced with choices (Daniel 1:1-21) he wanted others to see that the choices he made meant that he was a servant of God. When Daniel was willing to choose to do what he should instead of what he might want God took care of him.
What choices do you face?
Which choices are the hardest to make?
Are there things that you watch, eat, or listen to that you know you shouldn’t?
If someone was watching your choices what would they think about your God?
2 comments October 15, 2008
Joy
“I can be happy when things don’t go my way.”
Joy is a word we hear a lot. But joy may not be something that we have a lot. Joy is being happy when things don’t go your way. There is a happiness that comes from the inside. David had it. It showed when he was bringing the ark of the covenant back into Jerusalem. He danced so hard that his undies were showing. But he didn’t care. He had a joy that was inside him and nothing could take it out.
When do you feel you have more joy?
What do you do when you feel joy?
How can you show your joy to others?
2 comments September 8, 2008
Service: “I can use what I am good at to help others.”
We are all created by God to be different.
You are created with talents and abilities that others do not have.
God gives you special abilities to use in the church to serve others.
The truth is, you were created to change the world for the better.
A story that I am reminded of is when the disciples were struggling meeting the needs of all of the needy people in Jerusalem. They gathered themselves together and put some in charge of studying and teaching God’s Word to others. They also put others in charge of serving the needs of the people. They would take charge of giving out food or money that the people in the city needed. They called these men “ministers or deacons”. They were servants of the people for Jesus.
What are you good at?
How could you use what you are good at to help others?
Are you involved in helping the people in need?
Go to www.compassioninternational.com and pray for the kids that need food in other countries.
Talk to your parents about adopting a child.
2 comments August 5, 2008
