We are continuing our Culture Series for the Fall Semester called Beautiful Resistance. This week we will be looking at the power of the giving - Resisting “YOLO”. Students will be challenged by the Beautiful Resistance of Living a life of Consumption vs Living a life of Giving.

Bible: 

• Genesis 1:29-31
• Genesis 3:1-7
• Psalm 16:11
• Matthew 6:19

Main Points:

• Yolo culture - What is it?
• You reap what you sow.
• Not everything we CAN do is something we SHOULD do. 
• God's not a cosmic killjoy.
• So how do we as Christians respond?
  • 1st: remember, be careful and trust in God
  • 2nd: have the right perspective

We are beginning our Culture Series called Beautiful Resistance as we focus on how following after Jesus means we must resist societal norms and embrace biblical truths as we continue to walk in this world as believers. This first week will introduce us to Culture and how that affects us and what we can do to continue to fight the good fight of faith even when surrounded by influences of the world. 

Bible Verses: 

• Genesis 1:1
• Genesis 2:15

Main Points:

We need to answer a few questions in order to understand our calling in Culture.

• What is Culture?
  • Culture is what we make of the world around us
• What is our calling in making culture?
  • Culture makes the impossible possible
  • Culture makes the possible Impossible (Very difficult)
• What do we do now?
  • Identify your “garden"
  • What are you doing to “tend and keep it”?
  • Is the culture you're building  representing God well?

This week we have the amazing opportunity to walk through HEART, what it means to live the good life and how Jesus responds to that very question in Mark 12:28-34. Bud Kula walks through the main of the 4 four parts our Heart, and how important it is to devote our heart and center it on Jesus. 

Scripture

• Mark 12:28-34, Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 23:25-28, Matthew 15:8, Deuteronomy 30:6 

Message Questions:

• What do we have to do to live the good life?
• How do we determine where our hearts are?
• What is my heart set on?

Main Breakdown:

• 4 parts 
  • Hearts 
  • Soul
  • Minds
  • Strength 

We continued our Elemental Series with the final week focusing on Commitment, this is a great reminder on how you finish the race matters more than how you begin. 

Elemental: Week 4

Commitment (Element Co)

• Acts 28:16-31
• It’s not what you start, it’s what you finish.

This week we are continuing or Elemental series as we focus on Creed, that what our beliefs are can influence and impact what we do. Adam Bright, our youth director talks through 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 to help us grasp and understand how our creed determines how we live. 

Creed (Element Cr)

• 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
• What you believe fuels what you do.

This week at OneLife Youth we continued our new series called Elemental, this Wednesday we are focusing on Character and the life and story of Paul in Acts 20:17-38. This message is given by youth leader Mark Hobson and he dissects the story and gives practical wisdom on how our character shapes our life. 

Character - Acts 20:17-38 (Element Ch)

1. You are what you eat
2. You say what's in your heart
3. You do what you do because that's who you are

This week at OneLife Youth we started a new series called Elemental, for the next 4 weeks we will be focusing on the elements that build a world changing life. This first week looks at Calling focusing on how a life change should lead to world change. 

Calling - Acts 9:1-22 

• Life change should lead to world change.

We have a: 

• General Calling
• Specific Calling

1. We discover our Specific Calling by knowing:
2. What natural abilities and talents do we have?
3. What unique opportunities are before you?
4. What spiritual gifts do I have?
5. Listening to the Holy Spirit?

Dad Chat: Back to School Basics

This week as the school year began we walked through some Back to School Basics, this Dad Chat is chatted through by Adam Bright and provides some great reminders and tools for facing the school year well.  

5 Back to School Basics

1. Thinking may be the most critical thing you do - 1 Corinthians 10:31
2. The most important book you’ll read this fall is the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:16-17
3. Someone younger than you needs you - Matthew 28:19
4. Comparison in the Classroom can be the start of Pride.  James 4:6
   1. Quick to celebrate others - Romans 12:10
   2. Slow to think more highly of ourselves than we should - Romans 12:3
   3. Your good grades, good relationships, good projects and tests scores is God working through you for His glory. - Phillipians 2:3
5. Only Jesus saves. - Romans 3:10-12

We are finishing our summer series, #nothingwill. This 3-week series focuses on Romans 8:38-39, explaining that nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Main Points:

• You are never alone.
• God knows the "real" you.
• God is the Ultimate Companion.
• Sin can cause us to be relationally distant from God.
• God's forgiveness & love restores us.

Main Verses:

• Romans 8:38-39
• Psalm 139:7
• Psalm 69:5
• Isaiah 59:2
• 1 John 1:9

This Wednesday we are continuing our new series called #nothingwill, this is the 2nd week of a 3-week series focused on Romans 8:38-39, explaining that nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Adam walked us through week 2 of the #nothingwill series on power vs. love, how NOTHING not even your friends, devices, close friends, parents/family, or the stories you are told can separate you from the love of God.