This Sunday we are going to take our yearly GROUP PICTURE (all 7th-12th grade students and adult small group leaders). The picture will be framed and hung on the wall in the Cafe
PLEASE do your best to make it because it would be great to have all of you in the picture plus it would be good to see you.
See you Sunday and spread the word!
Tommy
This summer a portion of our high school students will be going on a mission trip to Mexico (July 4-11). In a nutshell we will be working with Mexico Caravan Ministries building shelters for homeless families, but that isn’t the most important thing about this trip. It’s very important, and certainly a worthy cause, but that’s not the MOST IMPORTANT thing.
The most important thing about this trip is what God will do in our lives. A life with renewed eyes for God and a passion for the world can effect people for a life time. That’s our goal beyond helping families.
This will be my third time serving with Mexico Caravan Ministries and consider it an honor to work alongside them. They are a great organization and have an amazing passion for the world. As you might be able to tell, I’m totally pumped about this trip and can’t wait to see how God will work in the lives of our students and adult leaders.
If you have any questions about our trip or would like more information, you can either get in touch with me or check out Mexico Caravan Ministries’ website.
Tommy
So what should it be? Should Jesus be #1 or the center of our lives?
As a teenager I can vividly remember a pastor saying that Jesus should be number one in our lives. After that should be family, etc. He went on to say that if Jesus was truly #1 then everything else would be fine. If God is #1, then your family life would work, and so on. All of that made sense to me at the time, but can your family life be horrible even though you have a good relationship with God?
Through the pages of Scripture God allows us to see how He created the world, worked in the lives of people, and sent a savior to take the punishment for our sins. Simply, the Bible allows us to learn what real love is all about.
So I would say that I view the Bible as God’s Word. This encompasses several things, but is ultimately built on the idea that a real, all-knowing, all-powerful, and personal God wants to encounter us. He wants to meet with us! How crazy is that? He wants to show us love and redeem us unto him.
Our view of the Bible is important. If we truly see it as God’s Word, then an important question needs to be asked. Is that view reflected in our lives? Remember spending time in God’s Word is not about checking something off of a list of rules. It’s about meeting with and hearing from a God that cares about us and wants us to know him.
So how do you view the Bible?
Tommy
How do you view the Bible? What kind of words or metaphors come to your mind? Have you ever thought about it like this before? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Later this afternoon I’ll share some quick thoughts and my background to approaching the Bible.
Tommy
There’s an interesting story in Luke 12:13-21 where a man comes to Jesus and asks him to tell his brother to share his family’s inheritance with him. Jesus quickly responds by saying “Friend, who made me a judge over you to decide such things as that?” But the story doesn’t end there. Jesus uses this man’s comment as an opportunity to further teach him and the crowd around. He begins with a warning and his main point. In verse 15 he says, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” (more…)
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