Dear Parents,
Helping Your Students Learn!
Last Sunday we started our Sundays sermon series for the next 2 months. Along with a new series, we also launched a new approach to our Sunday mornings called “Pop Quiz Prep.” It is like a pop quiz, but they get a chance to study before the test! The new method is that before any preaching is done, the preacher will ask a few questions to the students. The students are then dismissed into small groups and are given a large chunk of time to work out the questions themselves. Staff members are with them and can guide them, but most importantly the students have to do the digging. This enables all of the students to open their Bibles and answer life’s questions with God’s word. More than just teaching them, we want to equip and enable them to handle the word rightly and learn how to seek answers from God’s truth, rather than just from their leaders. After they did their own research and did their own digging, we came back together, discussed their answers, and then I had the chance to preach through the questions, giving a final answer to their questions! It was fun, it was engaging, it was interactive, but more importantly it was so good for the students. To see them digging through their Bibles, talking to their peers, and declaring what they believe was so encouraging! If your student hasn’t mentioned this new method yet, you should ask them how it went and what they learned!
Youth Tonight!
TONIGHT, and EVERY Wednesday night we will meet at FAITH BIBLE CHURCH (23580 Glazebrook Rd, Wildomar, 92595)! Join us from 6:30–8:30 PM in the Youth Room! There will be games, gaga ball, praise, a sermon, and time in small groups!
Tonight is our FINAL night in our new sermon series called “100%”! After camps, students are always fired up and eager to live out their faith. My desire in preaching is to help prepare and ready them to do that! Our “100%” series has been about living for Christ with all that you are - 100%! We spent two weeks working through the greatest commandment- to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength- and tonight we will address the second greatest commandment- to love your neighbor as yourself. If we as believers truly love the Lord and want to glorify Him, that love will be infectious and we will want to pour it out to all those around us! We will discuss what Biblical love is, who we are to love, and how we are to love others. 1 John 3:16 “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” Biblical and God honoring love is a love that is sacrificial and puts other before ourselves. Christ demonstrated His great love for us, and we are now called to spread that love to the world!
Sunday Recap!
Last Sunday we began our sermon series called “Armor of God!” For two months we will be working through Ephesians 6 and the armor of God. Ephesians 6:13 says “Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” We as believers are to take up the full armor of God - the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, boots of stability, shield of faith, sword of the Spirit, helmet of salvation, and prayer- so that we can stand firm in holiness and resist temptation. I began the sermon series by introducing what the Armor of God is and why we need it. Our three big questions were: 1) Are you strong? 2) Who is our enemy? 3) Why do we put on the armor of God? It reminded students that our strength is found not in ourselves but only in God, that the devil is real and wants us to fall into temptation, and that we put on the armor of God to glorify Him and to resist temptation!
See you all tonight!
In Christ,
Johnny