youth group(s) during the summer

"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter is better." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

During the summer a lot, probably most youth groups substitute their normal meetings with fun stuff. It's play time, instead of God time. Sure there's some Bible lessons, but mostly it's all fun stuff. I can understand wanting to do all this stuff during the summer when everyone is out of school, but what I don't like is how they do it at the time when they should be doing Bible lessons. I don't care if it's done on a different day, like for example if youth group meets on Wednesday and they do it on a Thursday, or some other day. Unfortunately they do it on the day of youth group. My youth group is doing more fun than Bible.

The people at youth group tell me that I'm free to do Bible study on my own. True, but we're still taking a "summer break" from our studies, from learning about God, with each other. And while we do that, the Devil and his demons don't take a "summer break" from doing and causing evil. If Satan does not take a break from evil, why should we take a break from doing good, and learning about God? Doing a study on your own is good, but when there's more people and someone who knows the Bible better than you it's better. You can go more in depth and have better studies. If we truly did believe the bible, if we truly believed that Satan and the demons are doing and causing horrible things, if we truly did believe that God was who He says He is and that He is like He says He is, if we truly did love Him, then we would want to spend every second learning more about Him, worshiping Him, and telling about Him so that others may be saved, but we don't. I wish that I could force myself to spend all my time with God, but I can't. In fact I doubt it's even possible to forever be with God, always worshiping and telling of Him while on this earth.

That's all I have to say for now. Adios mis amigos y amigas.

Proverbs 13:7-9

this is something I did for youth group after we had a little bit of debate on these verses.

after doing some studying on these verses I have decided to put down my thoughts on them. Proverbs 13:7-9.

Proverbs 13:7

"There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing;" I believe that these are people like the pharisees, who on the outside were rich in the spirit and in godliness, but on the inside they had nothing. On the inside they were hideous people. They were rich while on the earth, but their heavenly treasures are nothing.

"Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth." This one took a little while, but this is what I have so far. These are people poor in the spirit and show it. They covet, they lie, and they do other sinful things. And the part about them having great wealth, welll I don't know exactly what it is, but this is what I read. They are people who are poor in spirit, but have great material wealth.

Proverbs 13:8

I don't think I had to look this one up since there really wasn't any debate on what it meant, but I decided to include it anyways. "The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but the poor hears no rebuke." I came up with this, men who are rich are always watched and they are the ones that thieves look at, but a poor man is ignored.

Proverbs 13:9 now for verse nine. "The light of the righteous rejoices," The righteous rejoice and have joy, and they have a light of good works which doesn't go out. I think we all agreed with that, although I can't remember because it's been a couple of weeks. This one there was some discussion on though.

"but the lamp of the wicked go out." The wicked put out their own lamps, for it was they who rejected Christ and not Christ who rejected them. They were the ones who sent themselves to hell and still are sending themselves to hell. They chose not to follow Christ, and so they put their own lamps out.

so, those are my thoughts. feel free to comment.

July 2-July 5, 2009

so my aunt and uncle came over and I spent a lot of time with them, and almost no time on the computer. I probably spent a total of two and half to three hours. I played some games of settlers, apples to apples, and imagineif with them. I also went to a pool and played with my little cousins there. At the pool they had this nice hot tub. I really liked it. So anyways, I can't really think of anything more to say, so adios for now.

July 1, 2009

yesterday I went over my time by a lot. *blushes* here's all that I did.

randomness (maybe over 4 hours)

Bible reading (20 minutes)

memory (10 minutes)

reading (2 hours)

mowed two lawns (about 2 and a half hours)

sat on my roof and watched fireworks (maybe an hour)

that's all I can remember right now.

June 30, 2009

Since I didn't write down everything I did yesterday, I will do it now.

I went to the movies with my dad, my little brother and his friend. (I'm not sure how long it was. But the movie I watched was inkheart)

I had a sword fighting group. (two hours)

I memorized some of Proverbs one while my friends played the wii. (around two hours. Although I didn't memorize the whole time)

I did some research on whether or not a woman should teach a man. (around 30-40 minutes)

I did facebook and other random things on the computer. (40-50 minutes)

I read some books (1-2 hours)

That's all for yesterday.