Hooked On Drugs

This week in Sunday School, we talked about drugs in school...who does them, and what they could be...drugs come in all different forms, even everyday items. We are responsible for the bodies that God gave us. Let's be good to ourselves and make the right choice:)

Key Verses

Proverbs 3:7-8   ⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. ⁸ This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

Galatians 6:7-8   ⁷ Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. ⁸ Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Core Beliefs Challengs Week 4

Our topic this week was Salvation By Grace Through Faith. We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and sufficient work of the cross of Calvary by which we obtain remission of sins

Key Verses

Ephesians 2:8-9   ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 5:11   Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Who Is God Anyway?

In Sunday School this week, we talked about who God is. He is many, many things! He is whatever we need when we need it. We all have different perspectives of who He is to us personally, and that perception in one way or another will effect our relationship with Him. How do you view God, and how does that effect YOUR relationship with Him?

Key Verses

Romans11:33-36   ³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! ³⁴ “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” ³⁵ “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” ³⁶ For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Romans 12:1-2    Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Core Beliefs Challenge Week 3

This weeks topics were Christ's Death and Ressurection, and Christ's Bodily Ascension.

Key Verses

1 Corinthians 15:14   And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

Romans 4:25   He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

John 14:2-3   ² In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18   ¹³ Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. ¹⁴ We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. ¹⁵ According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage each other with these words.

Apex Youth Retreat

The Apex 2013 IFCA Youth Retreat, “Restoration” will be May 24-27 at the Pitt Johnstown Campus. Registration forms can be found on the Oasis bulletin board in the back of the church. Cost is $145 per student. Your registration form and a $70 non-refundable deposit per student are due by April 14. If you have any questions, please see Ray or Justine Nielsen.