The Piano[by Aidan Gibbons]

Your task, this week, is to tell everyone what you think this animation is about, how it makes you feel, what you think it represents, or what the animator was trying to get across. Leave your submission in the comments below.

Each entry earns 10 points and must be submitted by the end of Wednesday (3rd Feb). The Youth Club Leadership Team will then judge the most well thought out entry. The winner will get 30 points.

What Happens at Death[Luke 16 v19-31]

The Rich Man & Lazarus: This parable doesn't mean that rich go to he'll and poor go to heaven. No one can go to heaven except through Jesus.

Lazarus was poor and in earthly misery but inside he knew God's love and had peace in his soul. But many rich people in the Bible also knew God's love and peace in their soul.

The point is that the rich man here was content in his worldly riches and didn't think he needed God. His condition was far worse than Lazarus'. The rich man was quite happy for God not to be a part of his life... until it was too late.

Which are you most like?

The time will come to all of us when we will die. For Lazarus this was a happy day because he was able to put behind him all his earthly suffering and take up his place in heaven where he would enjoy all it's goodness for ever more. Sadly the rich man also died and no doubt had an expensive funeral. But what good was that? Where was he? He was in hell. The day he died was unquestionabley the worse point of his life. He entered eternal torment. It's a terrible picture and is not just imagination, it's very real. He could see now for the first time what a fool he'd been. He is desperate. He sees what he has missed out on through his own selfishness.

His call for a drop of water to cool his tongue shows his desperation. How the tables had turned. Now he begs as Lazarus had in the passed life. Lazarus called out in need to God while he was alive, but the rich man didn't call out to God until he was in hell when it was too late.

The Rich man prayed to Abraham, but it did no good. Only praying to Jesus is effective. His prayer was misguided and too late. On top of his sorrow, he had failed to set an example to his brothers and couldn't bear the idea that his brothers would follow him into hell, and torment him further for leading them the same way he went.

This speaks to all of us. We're hearing Gods word now and we have time to do something about it. Will we do something about it now or continue to ignore God and get on with an empty life that chases after pleasure that doesn't last.

Death is the end of any opportunity. It is final. We're all going to enter eternity. Seek heaven, Jesus and forgiveness now.

Paintball!!! [updated]

We're going paintballing!!

Saturday 6th February 2010

8:00am - 5:00pm

If you've confirmed your place, please
be at the church for 8:00am
on Saturday 6th February.
We aim to be back at the church around 5pm.

Be sure to bring:

- a lot of warm layers and trainers you don't mind getting messy -
- a clean change of clothes -
- money for extra paintballs -
- extra snacks & drink if you like -

£13.50 covers your whole day and includes 100 paintballs

Every extra 100 paintballs after that will cost £7.00

Get in-touch if you need any further details.

Burnham Beeches 2007

This was a trip we did to Burnham Beeches back in 2007. We'd invited the club members to church and then for a picnic and an afternoon exploring. Billy, Ethan and Darran turned up and we had a great day!

Lost and Found[Luke 15 v1-10]

Who should come to church?Only decent nice people? Was Jesus wrong to spend time with "great sinners", like theives and even prostitutes?

Are you good enough to go to church?

The truth is, Jesus is interested in anybody who wants to change their lives. You don't have to be "good enough" to come to church. Christianity is for anybody who wants to get rid of their wrong and start a new life.

If we go our own way in life, we are lost and unless we get back to God we are lost for good. Being lost is pretty terrifying. If you're not trusting in Jesus you're lost. Do you know that?

Think for a moment what it's like when you have to look for something important that you lost, like your wallet, or a ring? It's worrying and you become desperate and even begin looking in places that it usually wouldn't even be because you want to find it so much. If you are lost, God is looking for you like this. You are important to God and He has done great things and amazing things to bring you back to Him. And for those who are found, those who repent, there is rejoicing in Heaven.

Repenting means to realise you have done wrong, to turn away from the wrong you do, and start a new life going in a new direction. It means to say sorry to God and to change, to go Jesus way. That is how you get found. You'll be found when you repent.

Then there'll be joy in Heaven and on earth for your salvation because you are no longer lost, but found.

Don't stay lost.

Opening Bible TalksJanuary - March

This is the schedule for the opening talks during the coming months. After each talk has taken place you will be able to click it in the list below to read notes about it's lessons.

Date	Title	Ref.	Spkr.
Jan 15	Lost and Found	Luke 15:1-10	Graham
Jan 22	The Lost Son	Luke 15:11-24	Tim
Jan 29	What happens at death?	Luke 16:19-31	David
Feb 5	How to be right with God	Luke 17:9-14	Richard
Feb 12	Jesus Enters Jerusalem	Luke 19:28-48	Gwynne
Feb 19	Half Term
Feb 26	The Last Supper	Luke 22:7-23	Pete
Mar 5	The Night of Jesus' Arrest	Luke 22:39-62	John
Mar 12	Jesus Condemned	Luke 22:66-23:25	Gwynne
Mar 19	Jesus Crucified	Luke 23:26-49	Graham
Mar 26	Jesus Rises from the Dead	Luke 24:1-12,36-49	Gwynne

Happy New Year Youth Club!

We hope you all had a great Christmas and enjoyed celebrating the new year! It was a lot of fun seeing some of you at Tim & Joy's last Friday evening and we're looking forward to seeing the rest of you this Friday at club :-)

We have 4 new winners, from the half-term leading up to Christmas, who will be enjoying the next points prize trip when we announce it. You can find out who they are on Friday. Now we'll be counting up the points for the coming whole term leading up to Easter, so keep working hard to build up those points!

You can start earning points now by playing this week's game.

There are some new speakers added to the Bible Talk team... we're looking forward to hearing from them in the coming weeks. And we begin a new movie this Friday called Tak.... :-P ... you'll have to wait and see.

What where you thinking?!

Okay, so you're the driver of the pickup truck... and you have to explain what happened!

Rules:

• Write as few or as many words as you like to desribe how or why you ended up in this situation. Make it funny or clever or as believeable as you like.
  
• You only get one chance to write your description, so make it good!
• From Wednesday next week I'll accept no more entries and everyone must vote for their favourite one by leaving a comment stating the writers name.
  
• You are allowed to vote even if you didn't write one.
  

You get 10 points for writing a description, and if yours is voted the best you'll get an extra 20 points. Take your time to think about it before you submit your comment, remember you only get one chance and your first submission is the only one I'll accept!