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| Welcome: On behalf of the Youth Group at First Baptist Church, Pea Ridge, welcome to our website! On this page you will be able to find several things including: pictures, calendar of upcoming events, media from Wednesday nights and words from the Youth Pastor and students. |
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Well, it's been way too long since I've updated this site. With my new blog and all, I am behind on writing here. You should really check out my blog. I will be trying to keep it updated with life stuff and ministry stuff as well. In the future, this little newsletter may disappear. Today I was driving on 540 and all of a sudden I saw a cop. My immediate reaction was to slam on my brakes. I then looked down and realized that I wasn't even speeding. Now granted, that was probably due to sure luck, because I usually do speed. When I see a cop, my immediate reaction is fear to a large degree. Fear that I am doing something wrong and I am about to get caught. Fear that I need to quickly fix what I've done wrong before the cop sees it as well. I think that often we view God the same way. We think of Him as a cop who comes around to make sure that we are doing everything correctly. We view Him as this "cop in the sky." Often we live our lives frantically trying to convince this "cop in the sky" that we aren't breaking the law and that we aren't sinner. The reality is that we are sinners and He already knows that! That's why He sent Jesus to come and pay the ransom that we were and still are incapable of paying. During our Mt. Sequoyah retreat, our speaker Andrew Bolger reminded us that it's all in Christ alone. We are made perfect before God not by what we do or don't do, but by our identification with Christ. One of my favorite songs is In Christ alone. I think the lyrics to this song are amazing and reveal a very practical truth. We don't have to live in fear and we don't have to live under bondage. Jesus came to relieve us of that and He continues to intercede for us today! I leave you with the lyrics from this wonderful song! May we live with this reality daily! Until next time, do something good for yourself, and somebody else! Peace! Noah Mitchell-Youth and Discipleship He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My Comforter, my All in All Here in the love of Christ I stand In Christ alone, who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save 'Till on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me For I am His and He is mine Brought with the precious blood of Christ No guilt in life, no fear in death This is the power of Christ in me From life's first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny No power of hell, no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand 'Till He returns or calls me home Here in the power of Christ I'll stand |