Merry Christmas!
I know it's Christmas eve, eve; but I want to say Merry Christmas and more importantly thanks! Pastor Paige and I are blessed to have the greatest youth church in the world. Over the last 10 months in GC we saw 125 1st time Salvations! I mean holy cow or Holy Spirit, God is Good! The total number of rededications (including the ones from Frontline @ Mt. Carmel) was 501! We saw 2 people totally healed including one person who had a brain tumor removed and went to work the day after the surgery. They told her she wouldn't be able to work ever again! HA! (That's us laughing at the devil thinking he's in control, when in reality GOD RULES!)
Honestly, this is not the work of two people, but the work of each and everyone of us at GC. Without you, we would have never had 190 at invite night a couple of weeks ago, there never would have been 125 salvations, without you...there would be no GC. Generation Church needs you now more than ever! As we take a week off and gear up for 2006, let's get some crazy, God-like faith and believe that God can double all of those statistics in the next year. Let's believe that we can and are changing this city. Let's believe that we will be the voice of our generation in SD and SoCal. Let's believe that together, us and God, nothing will be IMPOSSIBLE!
Have the Merriest Christmas ever! And tell everyone you see and meet to have the same. As the writer of Hebrews states in 6:1..."Let us go on to perfection..." in 2006. God bless you, we love you.
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Honestly, this is not the work of two people, but the work of each and everyone of us at GC. Without you, we would have never had 190 at invite night a couple of weeks ago, there never would have been 125 salvations, without you...there would be no GC. Generation Church needs you now more than ever! As we take a week off and gear up for 2006, let's get some crazy, God-like faith and believe that God can double all of those statistics in the next year. Let's believe that we can and are changing this city. Let's believe that we will be the voice of our generation in SD and SoCal. Let's believe that together, us and God, nothing will be IMPOSSIBLE!
Have the Merriest Christmas ever! And tell everyone you see and meet to have the same. As the writer of Hebrews states in 6:1..."Let us go on to perfection..." in 2006. God bless you, we love you.
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posted by Casey at
11:43 AM
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So as Pastor Casey was talking about Santa last night, I had a few revelations. People will bake Santa cookies and wait in line for hours to sit on his lap at the mall. All the parents bring their kids and when they finally get to the front of the line the kid sits on Santa's lap and Santa asks him what he wants for Christmas. Now something is seriously wrong with this picture. Since when is Santa the one who provides for us and meets all our needs? There is only one Jehovah Jirah and that is the Lord. Although they want us to think that Santa is omnipresent (somehow he is at every mall in the country and at the northpole all at the same time), he is not God and therefore we should stop idolizing him. Parents need to bring their children to Jesus, not to Santa. Jesus wants us to come as children this Christmas to sit on his lap, to tell him what we need, and to receive his blessings. When you go to see Santa he asks you what your name is, but when you go sit on Jesus's lap he says "I KNOW YOU BY NAME. I created you and formed you, you are fearfully and wonderfully made." I don't care if my name is on Santa's "nice" or "naughty" list, I care that my name is written in the Lambs book of Life! The presents that "Santa" could give me will be destroyed by moths and rust and sold for a quarter at next years garage sale, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen!
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Anonymous, at 12:35 PM, December 23, 2005
Oops, I forgot to sign my name on that last post.
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Anonymous, at 12:36 PM, December 23, 2005
"People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not recieve the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.' And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them." Mark 10:13-16
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Anonymous, at 12:39 PM, December 23, 2005
Word UP!
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Anonymous, at 2:37 PM, December 23, 2005
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