Dr. Peter

All through Doc's role play of the disciple Peter he continually remarked on Peter's tendency toward arrogance. Pride is such an offense to God. It's basically saying that you don't need Him cause you've got it all together. In my opinion, it is the most ironic and laughable of sins. Take just a moment to the think of the greatness of God, how infinitely awesome He is. In light of Him, I am nothing. I do not exist outside of Him. I do not live, move, or breath outside of Him. How pathetic arrogance is in light of His glory.

Accountability Meetings

Hey Everyone,

We've changed the date for accountability meetings. We will now meet on Fridays during lunch rather than Thursdays. We realize that many of you attend the FCA meetings and we want to accommodate you.

Hope to see you there,
Sarah

12/11/09 Update

wii Tournament

• Saturday, December 12th from 6:30 to 10:00
• $2.00 Admission
• All you can eat pizza and drinks
• Trophies for Champions!

What Pastor Greg had to say this week was no picnic. He really challenged us to be intent about relating to God rightly. Obedience to His will is not an option in this relationship. It's so ironic that we tend to rely on grace to get us out of the obedience part of salvation. We know that God is all loving and merciful, so of course He'll forgive us when we ignore Him. But then we are ignoring the very purpose of grace; to bring us into right relationship. Obviously, if we are avoiding the obedience issue, our goal is not right relationship. That's the root issue. Faith without works is dead, so disobedience says alot of something about our faith.

SCHOOL SPIRIT DAY AND PEP RALLY

Friday, December 18th

We are preparing for a big day of basketball on Saturday, December 19th when all of our teams will be playing Delaware Military Academy. Wear your spirit t-shirts to school that day and regular dress code pants.

GIRLS BIBLE STUDY

Will not be meeting on the 14th. Unfortunately we have not been able to start yet. I'll let you know when the first meeting will be.

See you in school,
Sarah

God is Love

“If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”1 John 4:20 NIV.

What Mrs. Hudson spoke about this morning was how to relate to one another properly. How we treat one another ultimately comes down to how we view one another. Sadly, I've heard so many people say that they hate someone that they don't like or are jealous of. Immediately my mind goes to this verse. Apparently if we don't love one another we cannot possibly love God. This seems really difficult because, face it, God is awesome and people are not always very lovable. But here's the amazing thing about coming into relationship with God: you can become like Him, and God is love. This is why love is not something characteristic of the loved subject. It is characteristic of the lover. This ties into what Mr. Kemerling said at the beginning of chapel about the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself within us. Only when we are indwelled by Love (God) are we able to love.

What's happening:

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Shoebox for Soldiers program. We know that our gifts will be appreciated by our men and women overseas.

As I said in chapel this morning, we will be having a wii tournament on Saturday, December 12th from 6:30 to 10:00 at DCHS. You can sign up for the different events you want to participate in and we'll have prizes for the winners of each category! Sign-up sheets are on the bulletin boards across the hall from the lockers. We're gonna feed you pizza so the event will cost $2.00 per person.

Also, Girls Bible Study will begin on Monday, December, 7th! We'll have it in the music room from 5:15 to 6:30 right after girls' basketball practice. There is a sign up sheet for that on the bulletin board opposite the lockers so we can estimate how many will be coming.

Your friend,

Sarah Betts