Big Plans

I'm excited about what we're doing in place of Big Deal tonight. I got a flyer in the mail last week promoting an event at Sherwood Oaks CC in Bloomington called Pure Passion. Ryan Dobson, son of Dr. James Dobson, will be speaking and there will be a band (Slingshot 57) and games and such. HOPEFULLY, this will be a great thing. Tonight, Ryan will be speaking on teens and sex. It's a touchy subject for some folks, but for most people in the world, you can't get away from it. Our society, shoot, our world is obsessed with it! It's in the music we listen to, on the TV shows we watch, in the way we dress, everywhere! It will be refreshing to hear what he's got to say about the subject. Apart from the topic of the event, I'm looking forward to spending a couple hours in the van with the youth. Really. Hopefully, they'll talk...to me and to each other. It will be a good opportunity for fellowship. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Proverbs 1:5-6 in the NLT says, "Let those who are wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. And let those who understand receive guidance by exploring the depth of the meaning in these proverbs, parables, wise sayings and riddles." If you don't already, I would like to invite you to make it a daily practice to read one chapter of Proverbs a day. The wisdom for life that are included in this book really do make a difference in a person from day to day. The constant appeal of the book is to get wisdom. If you don't, you will suffer. It's basic to life that the wise amongst us try to get wiser and the fools amongst us, you guessed it, just seem to get more foolish. Why is that? Scripture makes it clear to us that wisdom and folly are polar opposites, thus, so are those who practice each. The wise can see the folly of the fools of the world and want nothing to do with it. In fact, it drives them closer to wisdom. The strange thing is, the same is true of the foolish! They see the wise and, for some reason or another, want nothing to do with that!!! They just go on their way, doing their own thing, and reap the fruit of their foolishness. It's is so strange, but the foolish are only doomed in their folly if they remain there. Wisdom offers several calls to the foolish to come and get wisdom and leave the destructive path on which they walk. The calls are all over the book. Do yourself a favor and get into this book. Learn to live by these principles and just see how different your life can be when guided by the Lord's wisdom.

Pure Passion tonight: leaving @ 5, back at 9:30 (eta)
Sunday 12/5: 7 week LIFE group fellowship dinner-no regular Youth Group (come hungry!)
Sunday 12/12: Christmas carroling (come ready to sing!)
Saturday 12/18: Toys for Tots distribution @ Harmony United Methodist Church
Sunday 12/19: Holiday Dinner (come hungry!)
Wednesday 12/21: A Big Deal Christmas (White Elephant gift exchange & party)

That's all folks

Later...