Area 12:2 Blog

Here’s a brief rundown of upcoming events at Area 12-2 Youth Ministry.  Of course, you can always check out www.area12-2.org for more information.

Teen Nights, Sundays 7-9pm.  Studying the TRUE U series.  Bring $3 for food, and even more to help support our Compassion Kid.

Feb. 14 – Chocolate Fountain

Feb 21 – Teen Night

Feb 28 – NO Teen Night (Jr. High Springhill Weekend)

Teen Nights, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30pm.

Feb. 23 – NO Teen Night (Winter Break)

March 9 – Chocolate Fountain, Take 2

And don’t forget Jr. High Springhill Retreat, Feb 26-28!  Some of you still owe me money and/or Medical Forms!

Have a great weekend!

Dave and the Area 12-2 Team

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YS Student Newsletter #431

Contents

1.  Something for Your Heart
2.  Surf Report
3.  Forgettable Fact
4.  Potent Quotables
5.  Uh, That’s Funny?
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1. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
“. . . in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:6)

Want your life to be complicated? Really confused and stressful and messy? It’s easy to accomplish: Just give some of your life to the Lord. Just acknowledge Him in some of your ways. And then save the rest of your ways for yourself.

Trust me. It’s like signing up for a multiple personality disorder. Why? Because God’s way is not your way. If you make a commitment to trust Him in some things and not others, you’ll always be trying to keep the parts of yourself a secret from the other parts of yourself.

I’m not saying it can’t be done. Most of us do it every day. I’m just saying it sucks. James called it being “double minded and unstable,” this trusting in God some and me some. And it leads to foolish living and giant headaches.

Want to live simple? Want to walk a straight-ahead path that’s going somewhere? Trust God with 100 percent of your heart and acknowledge Him in all of your ways.

Think: What would you lose if you trusted God by obeying Him in every part of your life? What would you gain?

Pray: Ask God to help you to acknowledge Him in all of your ways.

Do: Make a quick list of parts of your life that you tend to keep away from God, that you’d rather not let the “God part” of your life know about.

A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.

2. SURF REPORT
Interview with Denzel Washington about The Book of Eli
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/movies/interviews/2010/denzelwashington-jan10.html

Lost Character Study: Will Kate Believe?
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctmovies/2010/02/lost-character-study-will-kate.html

3. FORGETTABLE FACT
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

4. POTENT QUOTABLES
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
~ Washington Irving

To love another person is to see the face of God.
~ Les Miserables

5. UH, THAT’S FUNNY?

‘You should be ashamed,’ the father told his son, Andy,

‘When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he used to walk ten miles every day to get to school.’

‘Really?’ Andy responded. ‘Well, when he was your age, he was president.’