[T H E R E F U G E]: 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

SYATP 9.22.10

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

WOW...incredible message and memory!

Check this video out it is amazing.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

joint service tonight

We are having Joint Service tonight in the tonight

Big bang! and how it is a BIG LIE.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

week 3 You've Got Questions He's got answers. what's with the big bang?

Clips from the case for a creator will be shown tonight amazing info.

Hope to see you tonight.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

purity code ceremony

This was a great service. I am so proud of all our students that took part in this service. I know God was honored.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

THIS YEAR GIRLS WE ARE GOING OUT TO SHOCCO SPRINGS FOR A INCREDIBLE WEEKEND OUT WITH THE GIRLS. THIS WEEKEND WILL BE FILLED WITH DYNAMIC WORSHIP AND LIFE CHANGING STUDIES ON WHAT GOD'S WORD SAYS ABOUT BEING A GODLY WOMAN. THE TRIP WILL INCLUDE A ADVENTURE RACE, AQUA PARK DAY, AND TONS OF FUN. FOR ONLY $75.00 YOU GET A WEEKEND GETAWAY, FOOD, LIFE CHANGING WORSHIP EXPERIENCE, AND A BLAST.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

GREAT RESOURCE

About Us
The Team: Craig Gross is the founder and leader of XXXchurch.com. Working alongside Craig is an amazing group of people including Ryan Russell, Jessica Nienaber, Stephen Rose, Michelle Truax, Laura Lasky and some great interns and volunteers.
The Exeutive Team: XXXchurch is a non-profit 501 C3 organization that sits under the umbrella of Fireproof Ministries. There is an executive team that is directly involved in the ministry that is made up of Ryan Russell, Rob Supan, Jake Larson, Craig Gross, Brandon Cotter, and Matt Shatto.
The Advisory Board: We have a great team of leaders from across the country that serve on the Fireproof advisory board that is made up up Stephen and Laura Lasky, Steven and Rundi Luff, Dan Driscoll, Rob Beckley, Bernie Anderson and Matthew Richey.
The Name: XXXchurch is provocative, memorable, and it combines the seedy and the sacred.
The Mission: XXXchurch is here to make you think, react, and to decide where you stand on the issues of porn. We're not here to sling mud, but to shove the envelope and try and do some good.
The Tag Line: The "#1 Christian Porn Site" is what we are.
The Vibe: It's hip, relevant, honest, fun, and designed for people just like you.
The Belief: What we believe about Jesus click here.

WHAT IS X3WATCH
x3watch + Safe Eyes + x3pure
Internet pornography is a $10 billion US business. It has ensnared millions of men and women in addictive, destructive behavior.
Yet remarkably, there are very few effective ways to get confidential, online help for Internet pornography addiction. Welcome to x3watch.com. We have three products on this site that can help you. Watch the video and click around the site to find out more about each one of them.

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GREAT RESOURCE

About Us

The Team: Craig Gross is the founder and leader of XXXchurch.com. Working alongside Craig is an amazing group of people including Ryan Russell, Jessica Nienaber, Stephen Rose, Michelle Truax, Laura Lasky and some great interns and volunteers.
The Exeutive Team: XXXchurch is a non-profit 501 C3 organization that sits under the umbrella of Fireproof Ministries. There is an executive team that is directly involved in the ministry that is made up of Ryan Russell, Rob Supan, Jake Larson, Craig Gross, Brandon Cotter, and Matt Shatto.
The Advisory Board: We have a great team of leaders from across the country that serve on the Fireproof advisory board that is made up up Stephen and Laura Lasky, Steven and Rundi Luff, Dan Driscoll, Rob Beckley, Bernie Anderson and Matthew Richey.
The Name: XXXchurch is provocative, memorable, and it combines the seedy and the sacred.
The Mission: XXXchurch is here to make you think, react, and to decide where you stand on the issues of porn. We're not here to sling mud, but to shove the envelope and try and do some good.
The Tag Line: The "#1 Christian Porn Site" is what we are.
The Vibe: It's hip, relevant, honest, fun, and designed for people just like you.
The Belief: What we believe about Jesus click here.

WHAT IS X3WATCH
x3watch + Safe Eyes + x3pure
Internet pornography is a $10 billion US business. It has ensnared millions of men and women in addictive, destructive behavior.
Yet remarkably, there are very few effective ways to get confidential, online help for Internet pornography addiction. Welcome to x3watch.com. We have three products on this site that can help you. Watch the video and click around the site to find out more about each one of them.

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GREAT RESOURCE

About Us

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Monday, February 22, 2010

NO HS SMALL GROUPS NEXT SUNDAY

THE CHOIR FESTIVAL IS THIS COMING SUNDAY FEB.28 SO THERE WILL BE NO SMALL GROUPS THAT NIGHT.

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2010- 2011 SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM PREVIEW

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We’ve developed the Live Curriculum as a cohesive, four-year plan for your youth ministry, using a 36-week ministry calendar year. The lessons are designed to flow from one topic to the next, and each year builds on the previous years. But since we know every ministry is different we give you the option of taking it apart, shifting around the pieces, and using the lessons in whatever order you’d like. You can prayerfully schedule the lessons as you sense God’s direction in your ministry. It’s all good!

You save hours of planning time. Your leaders are trained, communicated with and prepared to teach. Your students are active and involved. And their parents become your biggest supporters. That’s a win-win-win-win! (We checked; it’s legal to have that much winning anywhere and everywhere!)

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

purity code week 1 resources

Parents these are the study sheets that will help you and your student cover the information from the study as a family.

TYCHS-LG_Intro.pdf (854 KB)
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TYCHS-LG_Session1.pdf (64 KB)
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TYCHS-PG_Session1.pdf (39 KB)
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Dnow info

Schedule

Schedule for Weekend:

Friday

6:15p Registration Begins

7p Kick-off Rally (College Band?)

7:45p Leave for Host Home

8:45p Breakout Session 1

9:45p Snacks

10p Breakout Session 2

10:45p Snacks

11:30p Lights Out

Saturday

8a Breakfast

8:30a Quiet Time

9a Breakout Session 3

10a Depart to Mission Site

Noon Lunch w/Session 4

Continue Missions

4p Depart for Host Homes

6:15p Depart to WBC

6:45p Supper in MC FH

8p Worship Rally

9:30p Depart for Host Homes

10p Discussion/Decision Session

11p Snacks

11:30p Lights Out

Sunday

9a Breakfast in MC FH

9:30a D-Now Wrap Up

Celebration & Group Picture

10:30a Sit together in Worship

12p Dismiss

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Dnow Reg.pdf (3695 KB)
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Time Away Card.pdf (1043 KB)
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Dnow Prayer Day

Hey everyone,

I wanted to let you know that we decided to do something new
with dnow this year. We want to get together for a time of prayer for
the weekend. This is open to anyone and everyone: Leaders, students,
parents, whoever. We are going to do it at Westmeade on Thur. Feb.
4. It will be a come and go thing from 3:30-5:00. So tell your
students to drop in and spend a few minutes praying and then go on
with their day. If you can do the same, it will be great.

We will have prayer requests looping on the screens and printed on a
handout. If you have any requests that you would like lifted up, then
please email them to wayne@fbc.org.

Parents this is not a thing where it would be good to drop off
a wild middle school student for an hour and a half.

Looking forward to a great weekend,

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Dnow Prayer Day

Hey everyone,

We will have prayer requests looping on the screens and printed on a
handout. If you have any requests that you would like lifted up, then
please email them to wayne@fbc.org.

Parents this is not a thing where it would be good to drop off
a wild middle school student for an hour and a half.

Looking forward to a great weekend,

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Drama pure curriculum

The month of Feb. I will be preaching a series on purity. It will challenge the students to live a life free on sexual immoral things and claim a life of purity for our Lord. Below is a folder with skits that could go with what we will be talking about.

Week 1

Purity

...

What are your thoughts on purity? This is more than just another Bible study on purity. This is a new

beginning! But before you can make preparations for your future purity, you need to look honestly at your

past ...

I. Where Have You Been?

You may have struggled with at least one aspect of purity at some point in your life. It’s an issue many

believers still struggle with. You may have become a Christians after you had already had some sexual

experience. But this is important for you to understand: No matter what your past experience has been, God

offers you total forgiveness when you repent. He also offers you complete healing and restoration of the areas

that have been broken - either by your own sin or someone’s sin against you.

Look up the following verses and write them out in the space provided.

Hosea 14:4 - _________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Ezekiel 36:25 - _______________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Micah 7:19 - _________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Take a few minutes now and reflect on these verses. Let the Holy Spirit speak these truths to your heart. The

Holy Spirit may be leading you to pray in repentance or to receive the forgiveness and love Jesus offers you.

Use the space below to pour out your heart as you feel the Holy Spirit leading you.

____________________________________________________________________________

This is just a reminder that God’s forgiveness and healing are available to you in the area of your purity.

Depending on the extent of your experiences and wounds, you may need to do further study on God’s

forgiveness and healing. One thing you can know now is that from this moment on, you can start over with a

clean slate. You can decide right now that you want to make good choices in the future regarding your purity.

Week 2

Purity Takes Planning

Purity doesn’t just happen, and the heat of the moment is not the time to decide what your boundaries are.

Purity takes planning!

Look up the following verses and write them in the space provided:

Prov. 14:15 - __________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

1Corin. 10:12 - ________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Lam. 3:40 - ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

*Do you agree or disagree with the importance of “giving thought to your steps” and “examining your ways”?

Why? ____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

*Think of a personal situation or experience you were in that you shouldn’t have been. Did you have a plan

beforehand to prevent you from getting there? How might a plan have helped you prevent it?

____________________________________________________________________________

Which of the following scenarios might benefit from some advanced thought and planning?

*Whom will I (or won’t I) date? What characteristics am I willing to let go of and which are

a definite necessity if I am going to date him?

*Where will I (or won’t I) go with him? How much time will we spend alone together weekly?

*What is my physical standard of purity? Am I willing to discuss this with him? (Does he

respect my boundaries?)

*When will I say “I love you” to someone? When is too soon? What needs to happen first?

*How important is it to me that we spend time together seeking & worshiping the Lord? What

will I do to assure that we do it?

*If the relationship needs to end, how can I do it or accept it with forgiveness?

Can you think of any others? If so, add them below:

*__________________________________________________________________________

It’s important to know that there aren’t necessarily right or wrong answers to the above situations. Your

answers may differ from someone else’s because you’ve had different experiences and have different areas of

weakness and temptation. This is why it is very important to involve the Holy Spirit in the process of deciding

your standards or boundaries. He can lead you into truth as you submit this area of your life to Him. You will

then be able to stand firm in your convictions instead of struggling to adhere to someone else’s.

Week 3

Purity 101: Godliness

One of the clearest passages on purity is 1 Thess. 4:3-8. These verses address our conduct (our godliness),

who is affected and how. Let’s look at them now.

1 Thess. 4:3-8:

“

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

that

each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

not in

passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

and that in this matter no one should

wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we

have already told you and warned you.

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy

life.

Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his

Holy Spirit.”

*What does sexual immorality have to do with our sanctification? ______________________

___________________________________________________________________________

(note: in vs. 3, “sexual immorality” in the Greek includes any sexual sin.)

*How does considering your brother-in-Christ’s purity before the Lord affect your purity choices?

____________________________________________________________________________

(note in vs. 6, the Greek words used mean to “go too far; beyond what is right” and “to take advantage,

defraud.”)

*What are some ways you can `look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others’ (Phil.

2:4) regarding purity and godliness? (consider specific areas such as how you dress, movies you go to, etc.)

______________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

*What is God’s will for you regarding your purity? _________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

Obedience isn’t really obedience until the choice is between your will and God’s will. This is where the

`rubber hits the road.’ It’s easy to follow God when you’re in agreement with his will for you, but when your

will for yourself is different than God’s will for you, you have a choice to make between obedience and sin

(See Ro. 6:16).

*Why does Paul conclude this section with the reminder that God has given us his Holy Spirit?

___________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Week 4

The Purity And Contentment Connection

There’s one area of purity you may have not given much thought to. It is your thoughts - more specifically -

your fantasy life. Do you have a fantasy life? You know, how you innocently day dream about meeting Mr.

Right - when or where it will happen; what he’ll say to sweep you off your feet; or how Mr. Right will come

one day and rescue you from your current ho-hum life and make everything exciting and perfect? Maybe your

fantasies don’t involve a `Mr. Right.’ Maybe they begin with the `if only’ trap. If only I had that other job,

then I could be different. If only I won the lottery, then I could do what I need to. Does any of this sound

familiar? This area is one that grips many women. One of the problems is that it isn’t really talked about.

Living in a fantasy world can be very destructive to both your present and your future. Why? Fantasizing will

destroy your contentment. What does contentment have to do with purity? Let’s look at it together.

In the Greek, the word for contentment is defined as “sufficiency with oneself as spoken of a satisfied mind.”

When you’re living in a fantasy world or even if you just visit there to escape the real world, you are not

letting your mind be satisfied - you are not being content with where Jesus has you. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit

of Truth, works to lead you into truth, and you limit His work when you live in a fantasy life.

Sin’s battles are often fought and won in the mind (See Romans, chapters 6-7). If you are playing your

desires out like a movie in your mind where you not only wrote the script, but you are also the director, you

will begin to find that nothing in reality satisfies you. You may even begin trying to manipulate your

relationships to look like the fantasy. Or, when the world offers you the chance to have what you’ve been

fantasizing about, it will be much harder to walk away from it and see it as it really is - a poor substitute for

Jesus. This is addressed in James 1:14-17:

Write out James 1:14-17 and reflect on each verse as you write it out.

________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________

*Read verses 14-15 again. Do you see a progression? How does someone get from desire to death?

___________________________________________________________________________

(note: entice means to deceive by false reasoning)

*Read verses 16-17 again. Why do you think James follows the warnings in verses 14-15 with the truth that

every good and perfect gift is from God? ___________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

How appropriate it is that James tells both sides of the story. On the one hand, you can nurture your desires in

your mind until you are so deceived by them that you begin to act them out until they are all you are living for.

Or you can live in truth, knowing and experiencing that every good and perfect gift is from your Father. It’s

only in this truth that you can be content. And only when you are content with letting God be God, trusting

His good plan for you, will you be able to make choices that will encourage your purity and godliness.

That is why Paul could say, `for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstance.’ (Phil. 4:11b). He

knew Jesus as his truth - his reality, regardless of his circumstances, so he was able to accept whatever God

had for him without escaping into the `if only’ or `what if’ traps of fantasy.

Now you have some time for personal reflection. Take a few minutes to journal (or you can use the back of

one of these pages) as you examine the kind of fantasy life you have. Has it compromised your purity? Take

it to the Lord and tell Him about it. Tell Him what hurts and why you’ve been trying to escape it. Tell Him

what your hopes and dreams are (i.e. if you want to get married one day, what your dream job is, etc.) and ask

Him to help you trust His plans for you. Pour out the contents of your heart to the God of all comfort and the

Father of compassion.

V. Conclusion: Where do we go from here?

Do you remember what this study offered you in the first section? A new beginning! Review the sections of

this study. What areas is God leading you to really concentrate on and apply to your life?

______________________________________________________________________

Write down your conviction/commitment regarding purity. __________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

*Write down your boundaries where you can easily review them.

*Pray and pray and pray again about the decisions/convictions that resulted from this study.

*Choose at least one of the verses from this study to memorize and meditate on. You will need quick access to

the truth during times of temptation.

My verse is:________________________

1Ti.6:6 says: “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”

*What does this verse mean to you? ____________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

*Has this study changed or expanded your understanding of godliness, contentment or purity and how they all

work together? If so, how? __________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

Other Resources:

1. What does God want in my dating relationship?

Choices by Stacy and Paula Rinehart

Too Close Too Soon by Jim Talley and Bobbie Reed

Why Wait? By Josh McDowell

2. How can I please God in my private life?

Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow

Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges

Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges

The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges

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