We will be looking at Acts 3 this week remembering that popular bible kids song that says “jumping, and leaping and praising God…”as we look at the healing of the beggar by Peter and John.

Join us by reading ahead and meditating upon the Power of the name of Jesus Christ.

Paul 

Today let us start out by asking our loving Father for that necessary power to live in a manner that brings glory to Him.

 I encourage you all and more specifically those in our group to read over chapter 2 in Acts and meditate on the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Lord bless you this week.

Paul

All I know
time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window………..

As I read these lyrcs with the tune stuck in my head, I wonder how much time have I wasted. Being a dinosaur, probably much more than many of you who are reading this. But consider what you do in a day, consider what occupies your thought life, consider what you bottle up inside. Check out some more of the song’s lyrics:

You kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when I tried so hard

Often times we try so hard and we get nowhere. But the question becomes, why waste our valuable God given time in our own strength? Why bottle things up when they go wrong or not how we planned? We have a Lord who cares. It says in 1Peter 5:7:”Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”

We can waste our time focusing on ourselves, our problems, our failures, or we can “cast our anxieties on Him”. Ephesions 3:20 says: Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

He is able to do immeasurably more than we can even think to ask. He has that power! Yet we waste our time in our own strength accomplishing little. Accomplishing things that as the song says “in the end it really doesn’t matter”. What will it take to put our focus on Him who can do “immeasurably more than we can imagine” and stop wasting our time?

Welcome to “Blog World”! I’m working with Dave to get this Youth Blog up and running. The intent is for this to be a means of communicating to each other about pertinent events, spiritual issues, possibly devotions, reviewing Sunday lessons, etc. I put down etc on purpose. Why? So you can give me some input. So, feel free, let me know your thoughts. When I become a little more proficient at this, I’ll post the pictures from the retreat we had last week!

 OK, ready, set get commenting!

John

From Brandon’s first message:

1. Being like minded.
2. Being lowly minded.
3. Not forcing unity-allowing God to create it by growing in Him together, i.e. focus on God or ”the triangle”!
4. Obedience

 From John’s message:

1. No grumbling or complaining.

 From Paul’s message:

1. Shining like stars.

 From Brandon’s last message:

1. Putting off (the world) and putting on (Christ).

 I may have missed a few but that’s pretty close. Now, as we discussed, the temptation will be to go back to “business as usual”. However, I would encourage you to remember these concepts/truths and apply them in your (and my) lives. It may be difficult, but rely on each other for encouragement. We will be planning another event when warm weather comes our way. Details to follow. I would like some feedback on what you guys thought. So please post some comments!