BTLN UPDATE

 



Congrats Noah! Second Helmet of the Btln Season for Noah! It seems like the Dynamic Duo are always doing everything together! Ben won the Helmet last week, so Noah had to win it this week. Is it Ben's turn next week? Anyways, big win for Noah this week!

We played Handball and somehow the teams ended up being a little lopsided. Jason's team was really dominating early. We reset and played first to two goals. Harley scored first for my team, giving us the early 1-0 lead. Jason's team tied it up and then Jason scored the game winner on a spin/backward bounce shot! It was impressive! The Dynamic Duo were unable to keep the ball out of the net. I guess they were saving it for Bulldog. ;)

In Bible study we looked at the Transfiguration. (Matt. 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-10, Luke 9:28-36)

Matthew 17:1-9  After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

Why did God the Father want to honor Jesus in this way? I think that God wanted to encourage the disciples. Seeing Jesus with two of the greatest prophets in Israel's history would have been amazing for Peter, James and John. Hearing God the Father speak out of the cloud like he did at Mount Sinai would have made these men think back to Israel's past. Jesus power and majesty were both mostly hidden while he was on earth. Now these men were seeing Jesus as he really is! This moment had a lasting impression for Peter.

2 Peter 1:16-18  For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.

We can be encouraged like Peter, James and John! We will also get to see Jesus in his Majestic Glory when we get to heaven! We can also be thankful that he humbled himself! Dying for our sins on the cross!

Philippians 2:5-11  In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  

THE CAPTAIN