When Jesus was born, it took place in an animal shelter.
Why?
There was no other room.
While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. She gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger, because there was no room in the hostel. (Luke 2:6-7, The Message)
How are our lives?
Do we have room for Jesus?
Are our lives too crowded, too busy with other things that we fail to sanctify Lord Jesus in our hearts (separate our hearts for Him)?
I struggle with this often.
My personal aim is to develop my life to be totally centered around knowing Jesus. Not just knowing about Him and doing the right thing, but really living in a day to day relationship with Him, where I am aware of His presence and respond to His voice. I want to make more room for Him.
The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God's righteousness. (Philippians 3:7-9, The Message)
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Friday 12/19 6-10pm Youth Christmas Party at Heiskanen's in Langley (Nina, can you e-mail me your address, tedder.samuel@gmail.com)
potluck style (bring some Christmas related goodies)
Gift steal (bring a gift worth around 10$)
We will also practice our Christmas celebration song (it's about the cross)
Sunday 5pm - Whole church Christmas Celebration (bilingual)
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IMPORTANT:
Winter retreat is Friday - Sunday 9-11/1/09 in Whistler.
Sign-up for winter retreat starts now!
(Please, try to get ready to give me an answer on this Friday, it will help in the planning...)
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Up-coming:
12/26 Friday - NO YOUTH EVENING
1/2 Friday Youth evening
1/9-11 Winter Retreat - Whistler
1/30-2/1/2009 Missions Fest
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Celebrating Christ,
Samuel
11 comments:
I'm sending my address to Samuel...if anyone else needs it, let me know!
~Nina
COMING!!!
dani
ME TOO!!
oh no what about the roads though? they are all snowy and slippery?
Major roads should be fine by then, once salt trucks have made their rounds.
I might be late (around 7).
is there anything planned for new years btw?
Jenni
ps. the roads are good. SNOW! beautiful. I was praising God for the gorgeous view of the mountains the whole way home from work today :)
Good job tonight youth :) The song was great and its nice to see so many of you continuin to serve.
Have a blessed Christmas and be safe.
-Miika-
who all was at the christmas production?
I wanted to come so badly but my dad was in a bad mood from driving around in the snow earlier :(
jess
you could have asked for a ride!
danica, naomi, tim, niko, natalie, keanen, jenni, daniel, liisa, jarno, jesse ....
Jess, dad was not in a bad mood from driving in snow all day. We would have gone, but the roads were apparently pretty bad. Police were telling people to stay off the roads!
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