 | Winners! 1. Thiery 2. Stanley 3. Amy 4. Jordan | 235 220 206 200 |
| Close but no prize: 5. Bethany 6. Anna 7. Elliott 8. Danny 9. Veronica 10. Noah | 191 190 182 180 171 115 |
Helen Jones, the speaker for the evning, is a busy mum of 4 children, a part time veternary nurse and is married to Matthew who is a full-time church worker. Helen is involved in outdoor camps for young people.
8-10:30am - Saturday 2nd October 2010
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Prayer is an awesome thing. We can speak to God freely, telling Him our concerns, worries and praise Him for his great power and goodness.
We can either believe that God is in control and live by that fact, or we must believe that there is no purpose in life but to live like robots, meaninglesly working our way through life for nothing in the end.
The disciples call Him Sovereign Lord. Sovereign means ALL Powerful and is in complete control. But we can still pray to Him and ask Him things. He is the creator who made everything and therefore knows everything. We are not freak accidents but we are here for a purpose that God has planned for.
The disciples proclaim that God has spoken, by His Hy Spirit, through men in history. All the things that have been spoken of by Godly inspired men have happened. Therefore we know that what the Bible says about the future will also happen. These are things that demand our attention.
They then say that the death of Jesus was all in Gods plan... God had already decided it should happen, long before. Despite Gods plans, we are still accountable for our actions. God knows our actions before we do them and can use them for His purposes... even the terrible things that people do can be used for good by God. We are accountable before God for all the things that we do.
Did God answer their prayer?
Yes. God gave them His Holy Spirit and gave them power to speak boldly for Him. God changes lives and situations by His Holy Spirit. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things through the Power of God.
God wants us to speak to Him.
What was the first church like?
The first church was a group of over 3000 people. They met at homes and in the synagogue. It's important to realise that the church was a group of Jewish Christians from all over the known world that met in various places.
Where has today's church gone wrong?
Today churhes can be places of tradition and empty ceremony or enjoyed as entertainment for the music and social occasion. Church leaders can often take up political roles. None of these things were mentioned in the first church. Many people today go to church because they believe it's earning them heaven, or to be christened, married or for funerals. As humans we have taken something good that God has given us and misused it.
What should our church be like now?
Our church should be as the first church was... a mixture of people from different ages, locations, race and even religious backgrounds. It should be centred around fellowship, friendship, scripture reading and teaching, praising God.
Youth Club is like the first church. We care for eachother and fellowship with eachother. We read and learn from the Bible. The main focus to bring each other the knowledge of the love of Jesus.
Youth Club is church!
This Friday, we had the privilege of Richard's company throughout the evening and then to hear him tell the story of how God changed his life.What does he tell the people about Jesus now? He told of Jesus miracles and proof that Jesus was the Son of God, and reminded them that they had killed Him. Peter also proclaimed that God raised Him from the dead, proving He was the Son of God as promised by God in the early scriptures of the Bible. 
Jesus has carried out perfectly what God had sent Him to do and now He sits at Gods right hand in a position of power and authority. He sent the Holy Spirit to continue His work in our hearts.
This was Gods purpose and plan since he beginning. God is sovereign and in control, yet those evil men who killed Jesus were all part of what happened. How can this be? Did they take credit for being part of Gods plan? Of course not! They were cut to the heart with guilt. They realise they were being held responsible for putting the Son of God to death. They didn't argue or shift the blame, they knew they had killed Gods Son... The very Messiah they were looking for since the Bible began.
Do you ever feel guilty or do you shift the blame? The Holy Spirit is given to convince us of our sin so that we are cut to the heart with guilt. This is so that we turn to God and ask if there's a way to be forgiven. And there is! If we are sorry and turn from our sin, He is willing to forgive us, remove our guilt and change our hearts. The Holy Spirit can make us new people from the inside out.
Peter pleads with the people to do something about their situation. It was an urgent plea, that each person would make themselves right with God. At this time, 3000 of those who had wanted Jesus dead were saved and being baptised.
We didn't crucify Jesus, but if we reject or despise Him, it's just as bas as if we had.
Jesus has done many amzing things and this is one of the most amazing.
Above all miracles, here we read of Jesus sending His Holy Spirit to
His disciples. A sound of rushing wind and what looked like tongues of
fire caught the peoples attention, but nt as much as the facts that
suddenly they heard the unlearned disciples all speaking in differet
languages so that everyone could understand them. Jesus was in them
but no one could see Him, they could only see andxperience the effect.
The huge croud around numbered more than 3,000. They were bewildered
and didn't really understad what was happening. Peter stood up in
front of these thousands of people now, despite denying Jesus not long
before, and taught about the salvation Jesus offered. The Holy Spirit
is powerful enough to cause men and women to want to spread the good
news of Jesus at any cost. Without the Holy Spirit there isn't this
power. The Holy Spirit changes and empowers ordinary people.
Jesus sends His Holy Spirit and we must accept the Holy Spirit if we
want to live the life God wants of us. The same Jesus and the same
Holy Spirit has given new birth to people all over the world. Men and
women all over the world have the Holy Spirit working in them and are
part of the same miracle.
You must go to Jesus as the only way, the only One who is good,
because you realise you're not good.
Here is the big event of Jesus ascending into Heaven. It would have been an amazing sight, but the important thing is not how, but why He went up into Heaven.
Jesus had proven He was God on earth and His work was complete. He is now interceding with God on our behalf. God is Holy, without sin, pure. Nothing that is stained by sin can come into the presence of God. We can't talk to Him, we can't pray to Him and ultimately we can't enter Heaven.
When someone wrongs us we think it's fair to expect to be compensated for at least the damages done. That would be fair. So, what about our wrong against God? How do we compensate for our wrong, our sinfulness. Jesus is the only way. Jesus died in our place taking the punishment for our sin and can therefore go to God as forgiven in our place. Jesus talks to God for us because He is now our Holiness.
Jesus is now in Heaven preparing us a place in eternity if we are trusting on Jesus as the only way we can be Holy enough to enter Heaven.
Jesus didn't just appear to the 12 disciples, he also appeared to hundreds of others. Peter's life had been changed since he'd heard the teaching and ministry of Jesus. His life had been turned around. Peter knew Jesus was the Son of the Living God. He had given his life to Jesus, and Jesus was confirming Peters love by asking him this question. This question was very important to Peter because he had denied his allegiance to Jesus just days before. He had cracked under the pressure when he feared he may be crucified with Jesus, and pretended not to even know Jesus. Like this, we too can deny what we have learned from the Bible when our friends pressure us. We can become ashamed of the Bible and Jesus when under pressure from those around us.
Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him. And each time asking him a different way. When Peter three times confirmed his love for Jesus, He told Peter to look after His sheep. These sheep being people who hear Jesus voice and follow Him. We are all like sheep going astray. We need Jesus to restore us and bring us back to Him, the great shepherd.
Jesus is asking us all the question "Do you really love me?"
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On Saturday 22nd May 2010, we are organising a trip to London.
Either it's really true or some sort of vision, wishful thinking or dream.
Vision/Dream?
The disciples wanted to see Jesus again and maybe they dreamed or just imagined they saw him. Dreams seem real for the moment but they disappear. Visions only appear to one person at a time. Dreams and visions don't appear to 7 people at the same time. And does a vision speak or make a fire and cook food. The vision/dream explanation doesn't really hold up.
Invented Story?
If the disciples had invented Jesus resurrection, then they are the biggest liars in history. It's a very serious charge to bring against simple fishermen. They would have had to live under their continued lie without failure throughout the whole of their lives... even to death... without faltering. This too is very unlikely.
Is it true then?
There is no other real explanation. The evidence proves Jesus is the Son of God and did rise from the dead, that His sacrifice for sin worked. If he hadn't have risen from the dead His death would just have been a shame and an injustice, but He DID rise and HAS saved His people. It proves there is life after death and Jesus is our hope of Heaven.
If you want eternal life, you must believe it too. He is worth trusting. It's the best way of life and eternity.
The Bible teaches exactly the opposite. The Bible teaches us that there is a purpose to life and then eternal life after death.
What we believe will effect where we end our lives and where we spend eternity.
The Christian faith isn't blind faith. Jesus was real and taught like no one else, but also died for us and then rose from the dead. He really was born, He really lived, He really died and He really did rise from the dead. History confirms it.
Jesus died and was buried in a rich mans tomb. The women were the first to see the empty tomb and the grave clothes laying empty. After the disciples too saw the empty tomb, it slowly dawned on them that He had actually risen. Jesus then began to appear to people in different places. He even ate with them and let them touch Him to see that He was really there.
Word spread quickly. While the disciples were still talking amongst themselves, He appeared to them and stood amongst them and spoke to them, "Peace be to you". They were so scared. Jesus came to bring peace. He calmed their fears and began to explain to them, showing them His wounds. They couldn't believe it for joy!
He reminded them of the Bible that they all knew so well, about the prophecies and how they had all been fulfilled in His death and resurrection. More than 300 prophecies from hundreds of years before were fulfilled in the life and death of Jesus. 65 of them were fulfilled in the 6 hours of Jesus crucifixion alone!
For example, 800 years before Jesus, Isaiah prophesied: Isaiah 53
Believing and seeing the truth of these things, is to come to faith in Jesus - coming to the point of saying "Jesus is my Lord and my Saviour and I need Him".
A number of small tasks covering a variety of skills will be set for a fun competition for the boys and girls of the Youth Club to see who's the best.| Challenge | Male | Female |
| Artistic Interpretation A member from each team was given the same subject to draw at the same time. The team that recognised their artists drawing first won the point. There were 10 subjects to draw. | 5 | 5 |
| Verbal Interpretation A member from each team was given the same word to describe at the same time. The team that called out the correct word first won the point. There were 10 words to draw. | 5 | 5 |
| Baby Knowledge As part of the celebration of Karen & Nigel's baby, the teams were given multiple choice questions about all things baby. | 8 | 8 |
| TV Theme Music A short clip of a number of TV Theme tunes were played and each team had to state what program they thought the tmusic belonged to. | 14 | 16 |
| Number Puzzle A grid of numbers was pinned up on the board and the challenge was to find the largest total achievable by starting from the bottom left and moving either upward or right and adding the numbers from each box until reaching the top right. The highest total could have been 28. | 27 | 27 |
| Word Description Number Racing Game When the contestants decided their number was called, they had to race their opponent the length of the hall and back to their seat. The first back to their seat won the point. | 14 | 4 |
| Toilet Paper Mummy Both teams were given 3 minutes and 2 rolls of toilet paper to wrap up a team member like a mummy, then the Leadership Team judged the results out of 10. |  5 |  9 |
| Physical Endurance Sit-ups, Squat Thrusts, Step-Ups, Running & Wall-Squatting! The teams (5 members each) had to do each excercise for a minute in turn, continually, until team 3 members from one team dropped out. After about 30 minutes (!) the boys lost three of their members, while the girls only lost 2. | 2 | 3 |
| Spelling 10 of the most common wrongly spelt words were read out for each team to attempt to spell correctly. | 3 | 5 |
| Wallace & Grommit Puzzle A nine piece puzzle was shared out and stuck to the back of nine members. Everyone was given the chance to complete the puzzle, putting the persons' name carrying the puzzle pieces in the correct corresponding puzzle location... best of 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Wallace & Grommit Puzzle TV & Movie DVD Quiz | 28 | 26 |
| Current Total | 112 | 111 |
All the things that happened here were predicted hundreds of years before. King David wrote, 1000 years before, Psalm 22 v1, 16 & 18. Isaiah lived about 700 before the crucifixion and wrote Isaiah 53 v4, 9 & 12. It was all in the plan of God... every detail. This is also proof to us that the Bible is Gods Word. What it says, came to pass.
Some strange things happened at the time:
Jesus died on the cross in the place of us who are sinners. God sent His Son to live as one of us and to take our punnishment. During the darkness, Jesus took upon Himself the darkness of our sin. Because Jesus was our substitute, we can be restored to God.
The two criminals crucified with Jesus reacted in different ways. One mocked Jesus, not seeing that Jesus was His only chance of salvation. The other criminal saw Jesus and believed and asked Jesus to remember him. This man was saved right at the end of his life. We don't know how much time we have on earth... Let us be like this criminal now and turn to Jesus as our saviour.
What happened on the cross really worked. Why continue life as if it didn't!
8-10:30am - Saturday 6th March 2010
Sadly, Youth Club said goodbye to Karen as she spent her last Friday with us before beginning a new chapter in her life, prepare for her new vocation as full-time mum. Nigel & Karen are expecting their little one on the 17th of March.
We remember certain days in history that had a profound effect on the world. This was a significant event. At this time thousands of people were celebrating the feast of the Passover. Jesus was making His way to Jerusalem for this reason, despite knowing that the Jewish leaders wanted to kill Him. They wouldn't do it at this time because of the Passover celebrations, but would carry out their plans when things quietened down. On this day the crowds acknowledged Jesus to be the Messiah and welcomed Him with praise. They assumed He would free them from the Roman Empire, but Jesus rode into the city peacefully on a donkey. He showed he wasn't there to physically free His people, but to give them peace and freedom with God in His spiritual Kingdom.
When Jesus saw the city, He was heart broken because He knew that they (like us) would be judged for their disbelief. They didn't see that Jesus could bring them peace.
The Jews are an example of mankind's hostility towards God. We don't want God to rule over us, we want to live our own way. Jesus cries to us "if you only knew what would bring you peace". It was Jesus offering Himself up as our sin-bearer that would reconcile us to God. We can have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
If only we'd realise that Jesus can give us peace with God...
