Temptation

Temptation is a real problem that we all face. You can’t hardly even go to church without someone dressing in a revealing manner. Here is a few principles on dealing with temptation:

1. Remind yourself regularly that lust is a danger, not a toy
2. Make an immediate confession from lustful things
3. Run from lust
4. Stay busy, be careful of time alone
5. Stand clearly for purity
6. Memorize scripture on lust and obey it
7. Pray for pure dreams
8. Spend as little time as possible alone with a women(wife and mother okay:)
9. Build accountability relationships
10. Remember the more valuable, the more protection that is needed
11. Don’t play with lust

Trophies

The apostle Paul had gained every human feet possible. He was born in the right family. He was raised by the law of God. He was a master of scripture knowledge. Yet we find the greatest christian of all saying that it was all counted but dung. Paul understood that with Christ he had everything that he ever needed and wanted. Paul understood that a life without Christ is no life at all. Paul’s trophy was Christ. What’s our trophy? Position? Power? Authority? May knowing Christ and making Him known be our greatest trophy.

Spiritual Warfare Pt#1

This is a New Teen Student series that is starting this upcoming week:
Quick Outline:

Ephesians 6:10
I. The Command
a. Be Strong (v10)
II. The Cloak
a. The WHOLE armour (v11)
b. The WHY of the armour
III. The Cause
a. The war is not with men
b. The war is with all you claim the god of this world
VI. The Cure
a. THE “WHOLE” armour of God, it’s a personal choice
V. The Conduit
a. Truth hold us up (v14)
“having your loins girt about with truth”

Updated: October/November Bus News

Blurred Lines Pt#1

Confusion, Uncertainty, Doubt are the seeds that Blurred Lines plant in our heart. There used to be a day when absolute truth was very evident in our day to day lives. There was a day when right was right, and wrong was wrong.
In the day of Ezekiel there arose a problem: “… they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, …” Ezekiel 22:26 God searched for a man to fill the gap and to make up the hedge because the lines had been blurred, the way had been corrupted. God wanted there to be a difference in what was His and what was not.

I. The Confusion that blurred lines gives
A. Uncertain Authority
B. Uncertain Author
II. The Catastrophe of blurred line
A. Loss of Direction
B. Loss of Discipline
C. Loss of Distinction
D. Loss of Difference
E. Loss of Doctrine

The Value of Hard Work

I met a farmer today who asked me the strangest question after I told him that I was a youth pastor. The question he asked me was not a Bible question or was it a question about my church. He asked me if he could look at the palms of my hands. My first thought was, man he’s a weirdy! What he said next caught my attention: he said, “man, I thought all pastors have soft hands!” He continued to say that his pastor and youth pastor have very soft, delicate hands. Man alive!, I thought. God help us! No wonder so many churches are going soft, they have soft leadership!
I am deeply thankful for my parents, my pastor and youth pastor for teaching me that work is not a dirty word!

Contend for the Faith Part #1

To Contend is defined by Websters 1828 dictionary as: “Striving, to defend and preserve, dispute earnestly, to reprove, to convince and reclaim”
The book of Jude was written in response to certain false teachers who had infiltrated the church with their heresy that God’s grace gave Christians the freedom to commit immoral acts and to sin all the more.

I. A Call to Contend (Jude 1-3)
a. A Specific Faith “… which was once delivered unto the saints …”
b. A Supernatural Faith “… sanctified by God …” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
c. A Scriptural Faith “… write unto you of the common salvation, …”
II. A Caution of Certain Men (Jude 1:4)
a. Sly in there delivery “… crept in unawares ,…”
b. Sinful in there Doctrine “… turing the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God …”
c. Sabotaging in Deeds “… turning the grace …”