Friday, April 14, 2017

BTLN UPDATE - "POP N DOGS"




For the second week in a row we had a first time winner of the Helmet! Congrats Riley! It never gets old watching one of the guys win the Helmet for the first time! This was nearly four years in the making! Riley has been so close so many times that it has to feel great to win the Helmet!

As far back as I can remember, we have never had to cancel spring football at Btln, but this week our twenty year streak came to an end! We moved "Pop n Dogs" to the church. As it turns out, as long as we have Mennonite sausage it doesn't matter where we are! We had one of the best nights of year! Like Bear Rinehart from NEED TO BREATHE once said, "The nights that don't go as you planned are the ones that you will always remember".

We played Extreme Btln Basketball instead of football. What is extreme basketball? 25 guys and 2 basketballs! It was like a two team version of "American". Ben's team was down 16-6 early, but battled back to tie the game at 42-42! We decided that we would play to 50. Ben's team was not about to be denied the win after battling back from the early deficit, winning 50-46!


In our last Bible study of the year our topic was "Eternal Life".

John 6:66-69   From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”


I love Peter's response to Jesus' question, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life!" In other words, "What else is there?" "We have found the only thing that matters!"

Fortunately for us, we also have access to the words of eternal life!


John 3:16   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 5:11-13   And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Romans 6:23   For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


If we believe in Jesus then we will receive God's gift of eternal life! What do we need to believe about Jesus to inherit eternal life?


Romans 10:9-10   If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.


All we need to do is, believe that Jesus was raised from the dead and declare him as Lord in order to be saved! Jesus endured so much to make it easy for us! Jesus did the work, and all we need to do is believe so that we can have eternal life!



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