1. Hurt people hurt people.
2. If Satan can’t get me to be despondent through recall of my past sins, he will try to get me bitter and graceless by reminding me of others’ sins against me. I may not always agree with his condemnation of myself, but he knows it’s really easy to get me to say “Yeah!” to condemnation of others.
3. The key not just to appreciation of what I’ve got but to thankfulness in all things is recognizing I don’t deserve anything good.
via The Gospel-Driven Church: 3 Things I Know About Myself and Others.
We’re really excited about our winter retreat this year! We have the exciting opportunity to partner with our friends at Atmosphere from East Auburn Baptist Church! These are great friends who are like minded in our desire to focus uncompromisingly on the cross of Christ as the basis and source for hope, power and change in our lives!
This year’s retreat will be directly focused living a life that is centered on the cross: living on the mission of God while battling idols and seeking the best for our communities here in Maine. Stay tuned for more about the teaching so you can be praying for the group as we learn! For now, here is some important information that parents and teens can’t go without!
- Who?: YOU! 5th grade & up
- When?: Feb. 12-14
- We’ll meet at the church at about 6:30pm and plan on being back by 5:00 Sunday evening.
- We know it’s valentines day weekend, so parents… go out on a date!
- How much?: $115
- a $50 deposit will be due by Christmas (an excellent present!)
- The remaining $65 will be due the week before the retreat (Wed Feb. 10th)
- Where?: Moose River Outpost, Jackman, ME
- Why?: Because we LOVE you!
A flyer and permission slip will be available soon for download!
If you have any questions please send us an email!
Your parents are a gift from God. Redeem the time! Spend some time with the parentals. Make their jaw drop and ask them, “Do you see any attitudes or behaviors in my life that should change in order to honor God and you?”
The good news of gracious acceptance
God accepts me based on his goodness and grace alone! Jesus’ blood has brought me into right standing with God! The truth is: I am more sinful than I can imagine, but more loved and accepted (forgiven) than I ever dared to dream.
The good news of changed lives
Jesus is the only one who lived perfectly, the way that God commands. Through the cross Jesus’ life comes into us by the power of the spirit and changes us. So the same thing that got us into God’s grace is the same thing that changes us from day to day. God desires that we experience a radical newness of life, that changes who we are at the core!
A New World Coming
There will be a new world one day! Everything will be new! No more pain, no more sin, no more waiting for Jesus to come back! The best thing is that we will experience God in all of his glory- the eternal soul satisfying riches of knowing our God. We will one day be able to delve into the depths of knowing Him without the hindrance of sin!
“From beginning to end what Jesus Christ has done for you he has done not only as God but as man. He has acted in your place in the whole range of your human life and activity, including your personal decisions, and your responses to God’s love, and even your acts of faith. He has believed for you, fulfilled your human response to God, even made your personal decision for you, so that he acknowledges you before God as one who has already responded to God in him, who has already believed in God through him, and whose personal decision is already implicated in Christ’s self-offering to the Father, in all of which he has been fully and completely accepted by the Father, so that in Jesus Christ you are already accepted by him. Therefore, renounce yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus as your Lord and Saviour.”
- TF Torrance
