Youth Group kicks back up June 3rd! Can’t wait that long? Check out what we will be engaging with this summer.
Read more →Youth Group is kicking back up on June 3rd! Can’t wait that long? Check out what we will be engaging with this summer.
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RECAP How does freedom make you act and live? There are many definitions for freedom, but I’m interested in what we do with our freedom. When we hear the word freedom most of us instinctively think about our freedom as citizens of the United States. I’d bet most of us are thankful for our freedom and will update our Facebook status to say that we are. However, I feel like many of us, including me, feel inadequate living up to that freedom when we consider the cost it took to give it. I think the same can be said about the freedom God gives us. God has offered us incredible freedom as sons and daughters of the king and it took and an incredible price to offer that freedom. Yet, what happens when we still struggle with sin? In those moments our shame gets the best of us and we don’t feel like we are sons and daughters of God. But when Christ went to the cross he set us free from having to measure up. In the movie Saving Private Ryan, Captain John H. Miller goes on a mission with his troops through Nazi occupied France to find Private
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RECAP There is an ancient story that has been retold several times. The general theme of the story goes like this: A child of royalty, power or wealth essentially has no rights under the guardianship of their parents and waits until he or she receives their inheritance at the proper time. Several modern movies are adaptations of this story. Indulge me a bit as I make my adaptation of this story. Let’s pretend for a second that I’m an alien observing your family, but I can’t hear anything. I can only see how your families interact from my spaceship. I notice that your parent’s clothe you, give you water to bathe with, give you a place to sleep, feed you, hug you, take you to sports for fun and exercise, get you haircuts and buy you toys. I also notice this fury little thing that looks nothing like you and yet your parents treat it the same way. This creature has fur so he doesn’t need clothes and yet your parents buy him sweaters. They groom him with exotic haircuts that cost more than yours. Your parent’s bathe this fury thing and give it a little house to sleep in.
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RECAP If you take a piece of paper of any size and try to fold it in half 10 times you will be defeated. It is impossible. If I offered you an ipad and a new car it would make no difference. No matter what motivation you have, your hands do not have the strength to fold a piece of paper in half 10 times. I’ll wait 5 minutes while you go attempt to do this as you undoubtedly don’t believe me and want to prove me wrong. Do you give up? See, we do the same thing with the law of God. It is impossible to follow the laws of God. I don’t care how noble and pure your motivation is; you and I are unable to follow the commands of God. This isn’t really shocking. Most of us know that we cannot live out what God has called us to. However, scripture is shocking because it takes it a step further. Essentially, scripture says that when we fail to live out the commands of God then the law did it’s job. The commands of God are meant
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