Harvest Party

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The Uprising

About "The Uprising"
Unprecedented, uncompromising, and unashamed best describes “THE UPRISING,” Steelroots’ newest reality television show. The series follows born again pro skateboarders Jay Haizlip, Christian Hosoi, and Brian Sumner as they comb skate parks, backyard pools, and other hangouts in an effort to spread the Gospel. Committed to affecting the world around them, the trio shares their faith and hope with friends, drug addicts, even police. Misconceptions of Christianity will be shattered as their unconventional approach to modern day evangelism reaches across cultural boundaries. With guest appearances by some of today’s top pros, “The UPRISING” delivers the future of skateboarding right to your doorstep. Experience a journey of boldness and faith as lives are restored, people accept Christ, and fellowship abounds. You will agree that the time is NOW! This is “THE UPRISING.”

Be Transformed

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-school, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be transformed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2

Happy Birthday Aaron

September 3rd is Aaron's Birthday! Happy 15th Birthday Aaron!

Back To School

It has been a great summer but all good things must come to an end. Let's remember to support and pray for each other in this coming school year. And don't neglect reading your Bible when things get busy. Have a great school year and be a light in the dark areas. One person can make a difference!

2 Timothy 2:21

How To Approach the Word of God by Beth Moore

http://lifetoday.tv/qt/2006/02/60222.htm

For anyone who is struggling with their desire to read the Word, this will change your walk with God!!

The Book of Job

Testing Man’s Integrity

Sometime during these years, God and Satan had a conversation concerning Job, a wealthy and wise man of God who lived in the region east of Canaan. Satan asked to shatter Job’s world, believing he would curse God, and God allowed Satan to do so. In a single day this influential man lost everything — his wealth, his servants, and all ten of his children. Then ugly boils covered his body, and this once highly respected man found himself confined to the local ash heap. His wife suggested he curse God and die. His friends explained that since God is just, bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people. They believed must have done something terrible and he had to confess and repent. But was incensed at their assumptions and judgments. He was innocent and still suffering.
On another day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. And the LORD said to Satan, “Where have you comefrom?”
Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.”
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”...
[Job’s] wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!’
He replied, “...Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, did not sin in what he said.

JOB 2:1-10, NIV

Job recounted how close he and God used to be, and he was angry and bewildered by the changes. In his pain Job cried out for God. He prayed to die. He wished he had never been born. He asked God to give him an answer.
Finally, God spoke for himself, and Job was hushed by God’s litany of questions and overwhelmed by God’s greatness. Job’s view of God had been myopic. All the suffering, all the losses, and all the speculation faded into the background. Job felt insignificant but confirmed, unworthy but blessed. After all, he had seen and heard God himself. God had shown himself to be the Almighty God, and that was enough.
Job’s integrity was intact — although he questioned, he never cursed God. In the spiritual world Job was unaware of, he had provided God with a victory over Satan, and God blessed Job more than ever. His health and wealth returned. His wife gave birth to ten more children, and they had children, and they had children, and they had children. He lived to see four generations and died 140 years later.
Reflection: In this unjust world, a life of integrity depends on trusting God even when we don’t understand him. Fact is, we won’t make a single promise or hold a single conviction that won’t be tested; Satan sees to that. The question is, will our courage match our commitment? The secret of maintaining our integrity is to keep our eyes focused beyond our suffering, failures, and pain on the dazzling, glorious greatness of our God, who remains constant and trustworthy. When we can say with all our heart, “God, if I suffer or die, I will suffer or die giving glory to you. If I live, I will live giving glory to you. Either way I’m trusting you,” then we are a tiny step closer to the Almighty.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!!

Salvation

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Breaking Free

Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
Hebrews 12:1

You Have Been Tagged

When you tag an object, you are leaving your mark on it. It says you created this piece of art with your own style and uniqueness. Everyone who views it will see a little piece of you, knowing you had your creative hands on it and with careful detail put your idea or dream on it. You have your own special signature that says "this is mine". Well, Jesus has tagged YOU. He has put his own special signature on your heart and you are to reflect His glory and His personality everyday. He had in mind exactly what He wanted when he created you. He formed you while you were in your mother's womb and breathed life into your body. He tagged you with His cross and you will never be the same. Do you reflect what Jesus had in mind when He hung on that cross for you? Are you proudly displaying that you have been tagged by the KING?