It’s a Trap!

I started a new YouTube series called “Wisdom Wednesday.” We’ll be taking a look at wisdom and the characteristics of wise men in the book of Proverbs.

I posted this video last week. Hope you enjoy it.

GOBBLE Your Way to Being Being Thankful

The Bible tells us to, “Be thankful in every circumstance,” but often we’re too busy being jealous of others or not content with what we have to be thankful.

Our culture doesn’t help us with this, as we are always competing with others and told to, “Be the best.” Often, being our best comes at the expense of others. We’re also told that we need the newest and best _______ (insert ANYTHING in there…clothes, phone, house, car, etc).

All of this causes us to be discontented with what we have, and, as a consequence, makes being thankful for our current state difficult.

Since it is Thanksgiving week (although if you go to any stores, you’d think it’s Christmas Eve), I talked to our students about being thankful last night.

Here are some tips I the Bible gives us to get us to the right place to be thankful.
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Beauty and Destruction – The Power of Ice (and Words)

We woke up this morning to a covering of ice. It is beautiful. I couldn’t stop looking at it. I braved the cold to take some pictures and videos of the icicles forming and covering the trees. Seeing the glistening of the ice on the woods next to our house made it worth walking through the crunching grass to get a close up view of how the ice had overtaken everything.

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Keys to Abiding in Christ

Our student ministry has been looking at the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-39) for the last five weeks. We have especially been focusing on loving God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, loving our neighbors, and remembering how much God loves us, which gives us a proper view of ourselves and allows us to love ourselves properly.

Tonight, we talked through how difficult it is to actually accomplish these things, or DO them, on a daily basis. We talked about how the only real way to be able to do what God wants us to do is by remaining in Him. We likened it to how you must stay near the WiFi or the Bluetooth signal in order for it to work for us. When we stray away, it just doesn’t work. We can no longer hear our music or access the information we want to access. It’s useless.
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Jesus Changes Everything

The gospels and the book of Acts are full of stories of people who encounter Jesus at varying stages of life. Children are brought to him by their parents. Prophets rejoice because they had waited their whole life to meet him.Blind men shout out for his attention because they know he has the power to heal them. Tax collectors climb trees to catch a glimpse of him. Fishermen leave everything to follow him. And many more.

Each person who encounters Jesus has one thing in common: They are forever changed.

That is because Jesus changes everything.

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