Thank You Karen!

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.

Karen has been at Youth Club for 15 years, first attending at the age of 12. The Youth Club will miss you Karen. Thank you for all you've done for the club and those who've attended over the years. We wish you and your growing family God's richest blessings.

Jesus Enters Jerusalem [Luke 19 v28-48]

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...

Take the Lead [The Reviews]

Write your movie review, what you remember from it, what you liked about it, what you didn't like about it, what lessons it taught and then give it a star rating out of 5.

Each review posted earns 10 points and the most well thought-out submission will earn an extra 20 points. You have until Thursday evening.

How to be Right with God [Luke 17]

Christianity is not a religion.

To be right with God, religious people pray, read their scriptures, go to their place of worship and be generally good.

Many religious people are very 'moral' people and obey rules from their scriptures and even many detailed man-made rules and laws.

The bible says, to be right with God, we must be even better than these meticulously religious people. But how can we possibly do that? There is no way we can be perfect enough for God. What do we do then, if we cannot be good enough to be right with God?!

The men with leprosy, in this account, cried out to Jesus for pity and help. Jesus told them to go show themselves to the preist so that they could be proclaimed clean and return to regular society. They did and were healed. Jesus said, despite only one returning to give thanks to Him, their faith had healed them.

This shows us that, as imperfect as we are, we can come to Jesus in faith and be healed. We can be made right just by trusting Jesus to forgive us and present us to God as right.

Paintball!!! [The Movie]

We had a great day paintballing! I'm pretty sure we've each got a bruise that tells a story. Good job everyone, and thanks for organising it Nigel!