Splash Youth Pool Party
Pool Party
SUNDAY, August 9
2:30-7:30pm
Bring a friend!
Need directions? See Tuggle's "sign-ups" section for the address or email Pastor Matthew.
Posted by Pastor Matthew Saturday, July 18, 2009 0 comments
Labels: CONNECT
Youth Worship PLUS
Join us for live music, fresh drama, and relevant biblical lesson!
July 26, 2009 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: POD
open gym @ 4p
worship @ 5-6:30p
SNAC (Cookies @ Student center open)
Posted by Pastor Matthew Friday, July 17, 2009 0 comments
Labels: experience, worship
Facebook Turns Five: Thoughts on Social Networking
from http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=3248
Here are a few suggestions for safeguarding the social networking experience:
1. Never allow social networking to replace or rival personal contact and communication. God made us to be social creatures that crave community. We cannot permit ourselves to substitute social networking for the harder work of building and maintaining personal relationships that are face to face.
2. Set clear parameters for the time devoted to social networking. These services can be seductive and time consuming. Social networking (and the Internet in general) can become obsessive and destructive of other relationships and higher priorities for the Christian.
3. Never write or post anything on a social networking site that you would not want the world to see, or anything that would compromise your Christian witness. There are plenty of young people (perhaps older persons now, too) who are ruining future job prospects and opportunities by social networking misbehavior. The cost to Christian witness is often far greater.
4. Never allow children and teenagers to have independent social networking access (or Internet access, for that matter). Parents should monitor, manage, supervise, and control the Internet access of their children and teens. Watch what your child posts and what their friends post.
5. Do not allow children and teens to accept any "friend" unknown to you. The social networking world can be a dangerous place, and parental protection here is vital.
6. Encourage older friends and relatives to sign up and use the technology. Grandparents can enjoy keeping up with grandchildren and with friends and loved ones separated by distance or mobility.
7. Use the social networking technology to bear witness to the Gospel, but never think that this can replace the centrality of face-to-face evangelism, witness, and discipleship.
8. Do all things to the glory of God, and do not allow social networking to become an idol or a display of narcissism.
Posted by Pastor Matthew Thursday, July 16, 2009 0 comments
Honduras Mission Trip Needs
We are currently collecting flip flops for children, 8 count boxes of crayons, bar soap, and toothbrushes for our mission trip to Honduras (August 13-21) A collection box is in the connector hallway.
Posted by Pastor Matthew Wednesday, July 15, 2009 0 comments
Labels: missions
please pray...
From fbcshreveport.org
Shreveport church bus overturns in Mississippi
Our bus carrying our youth to Macon, Ga., overturned near Meridian, Miss., Sunday morning leaving several seriously injured. We know now that one of the youth on board has died as a result of injuries sustained in the accident.
The church bus was carrying 23 teenagers and adults when a tire blew out causing the bus to rollover near the visitor center on Interstate 20 near Meridian.
One teen was transported to the Universityof Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. The other injured were taken to three hospitals in Meridian.
The wrecker driver who responded to the scene reported that a bus load of U.S. Soldiers stopped and assisted with the injured. They provided medical emergency support and even turned the bus upright.
Parents and students your safety is one of our primary concerns. Please help us by telling your student to buckle up on the bus as we travel on our trips this summer.
Posted by Pastor Matthew Monday, July 13, 2009 0 comments
Labels: Parent LINK, UPDATE
Snowbird Trip Packet.
If you are going to Snowbird camp you should have received by email the camp packet. If you have not you may download here.
See you Monday 7:45a!
If you are having trouble Contact Me.
Posted by Pastor Matthew Sunday, July 12, 2009 4 comments
Labels: Snowbird Update
Think about this
"[The Internet] creates a permanent puberty of the mind. We get locked in so much information, and the inability to sort that information meaningfully limits our capacity to understand. The last stage of knowledge is wisdom. But we are miles from wisdom because the Internet encourages the opposite of what creates wisdom—stillness, time and inefficient things like suffering. On the Internet, there is no such thing as waiting; there is no such thing as stillness. ... This culture is on an extraordinary pace toward needing things to be more efficient. But that is a value that is ultimately antithetical to the gospel. I've never heard of efficient wisdom, efficient love, efficient suffering or efficient compassion."—Mennonite pastor Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith [Christianity Today, 5/09]
What do you think?
Does the speed of our life decrease or increase your time/ walk with God?
Posted by Pastor Matthew Thursday, July 09, 2009 0 comments
Labels: THINK
