TUESDAY, May 20th, 2008

YOU GUYS ARE INBCREDIBLE!!!!
I thought that trying to get 100 visitors on the site yesterday would be a little to much for a goal, but I wanted to see it met anyway. But you all blew me out of the water with 170 visitors YESTERDAY! How incredible is that! I am so praoud of you all! Keep up the good work!

A Few Thoughts from Yesterday:
Well, yesterday was a great day. If you did your devotions more than four days last week then you were invited to join us last night for a good time. We started out at McD's and ate and ate and ate. Then we all voted on where to go and we decided to Go out to the beach at Boca Grande. It was Beautiful! The pictures at the top of the page are from last night. It is pretty obvious we had a great time! We took 105 pictures in 40 minutes! That was FUN! If you were not there, PLEASE BE FAITHFUL! You never know when your faithfulness will be rewarded!

Honorable Mention to: Josh L, Tyler, Amy and Booke, who were not able to make it last night. We missed you!

Sarah: I Love That Movie! Our Next Reward Trip should be to come over to your house and watch it!! :)
McCue: Bye Man! We Love You! We Will Miss You! Dont Die in Boot Camp!
Alex: Good Job on the Devos Man! We missed you tonight, I thought you were going to tag along?
Anne Onna Miss: I am not sure who you are, but I guess that is the point. One thing you can be sure about though is that we will not make fun of you on here. This is a place where you dont have to worry about that. (Because if anyone does... Then I DOG PILE THEM!!)
TYLER: Sorry about yesterday man! If I would have known that you couldnt come because it was just Ice Cream, then I would have DEFINITELY CALLED you! We did not decide to go to the beach until like 10 minutes before we were at the beach. We missed you man!
Gaby: I definitely agree with you. There are times in the Bible where it sure does seem like God has a sense of Humor.
Mr. Carl: I Agree! Lets Turn This Town, Upside Down! (For Christ)

John 1:29 - 42
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’
31 I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.”
32 And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him.
33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34 And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
35 Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples.
36 And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
38 Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), “where are You staying?”
39 He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).
40 One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
41 He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ).
42 And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone).

This passage is SO COOL!!!!! Let me explain: It starts out with John again and he is still baptizing people, when a man catches his eye. John looks up and loses track of what is going on, because He sees the Man that God told him to look for; the man that had the Holy Spirit descending upon him. When John saw this man, He immediatley STOPPED! And SHOUTED! BEHOLD! (LOOK, THERE HE IS) THE LAMB OF GOD, WHO WILL TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.

Why does John call Him "The lamb of God"?
Because in time past the sinners would have to sacrifice a spotless lamb to pay for their sins. Now, Jesus, "the spottless lamb" would pay for all of mans sin for all time. You see the little spottless lamb never paid for anyones sin, but that was simply a way that the people before Christ could show that they believe Christ would come. Now we live on the other side, and we simply "accept" Christ into our lives, because of His Sacrifice for us! Pretty Remarkable Huh!

I think it is so cool that John had never met Jesus Before, (He kept on saying: I did not know Him) But the moment that Jesus Caught Johns eyes, John knew who he was. HERE IS THE COOL PART: We also have the Holy Spirit in our lives NOW, and we should be just as eye catching to the lost as Christ was back at this time. People should see us, and just be shocked to see how we act, as we are controlled by the Spirit of God.

Quickly: I will tell you another cool story from verse 35 on: So it is the next day, and Two disciples walk up to Jesus ans say: Master, where do you stay? That question is so important; they are basically asking Jesus where do you live, Where did you come from, Who are you?? And Christ answers back, you want to know WHO I AM? WHAT I AM ALL ABOUT? WHERE I HAVE COME FROM AND WHERE I AM GOING?? THEN COME WITH ME!

How cool is that! Christ says, if you want to get to know me, then walk with me. That is what we are doing and should be doing daily walking with Jesus Christ through the word of God.

Teenagers! What do you think about this passage! See You Wednesday!!