New widget!

Thanks to "More Than Dodgeball" youth pastor blogger, Joshua Griffin, I discovered the new FREE application that allows people to send me a text message directly from our youth group web page...

I wonder if anybody will actually try it??

Hope so! :)

(You can get the widget for yourself here: http://3jam.com)

What you missed...The Great Adventure, Sessions 1 & 2

Our high school and middle school youth groups have started a series of sessions called "The Great Adventure".

To get a sense of what we've been discussing, check out the questions we've covered, below:

SESSION #1

• Do you ever catch yourself wishing you could be a certain character or that your life could be like your favorite movie?
• What are some characters that represent what your life is like NOW?
• Is the clip about Napoleon kind of like a typical day in YOUR life? The best plan you’ve got is playing with an action figure while you ride the bus to school?
• What characters/movies do you WISH your life could be like?
• What are the common elements of a great story/film? Common archetypes of characters?
• If you could plan and direct your life like a movie (or wake up in your favorite movie), what would it be like? What role would you play?
• What would the “plot” look like? Who would be involved? Where would you go?
• Does life sometimes feel like a movie you’ve walked into 40 minutes after it’s started? How so? Do you think life sometimes feels like a movie, or vice versa? Why?
• Where does this formula for a good story come from? Where does our culture get it’s love for stories?
• The world is involved in a cosmic story, and we’re part of it, whether we recognize it or not! If we look at salvation history, we see the exact same elements in that story. How do all stories begin?

SESSION #2

• Last time we talked about good movies. Let’s start today with some good songs. What are some popular songs that are part of our American pop culture?
• If what we create reveals something about ourselves, how would you categorize each of these songs according to what “desire of the heart” they express?
• If we look at technology or nature, can we see examples of how the instincts or “drives” of something point toward that thing’s purpose?
• What are the “drives” we see in our own selves? Why are WE so motivated to fall in love, etc.?
• Where do these deep desires of every person come from? How do our deepest desires, especially for love and belonging, point toward our purpose AND our origin?
• One of the deepest human longing is to be chosen, to be invited in (because we echo the Trinity in our desire for relationships). If people feel this longing but can’t recognize it’s source, what are some of the ways they try to satisfy it?

Related Scriptures - We refered to a verse or passages from Genesis 1, John 1, John 4, and Revelation 19.