BTLN UPDATE - SHIRT NIGHT

Congrats Anthony! This was Anthony's First Helmet ever! Not the first for Anthony's family though! Austin and Mike have both won multiple Helmets, now it is Anthony's turn! Alexei was there at the end with Anthony and almost had his first Helmet. Better luck next time Alexei!

Handball was the game of the week. With so many new guys it took a while for the guys to figure out the rules and the strategy of the game. The game was actually very even right up until the end when Aiden scored the winning goal for my team by swatting the ball out of the air!

In the Bible Study we looked at the story of David and Goliath.

1 Samuel 17:32-37

David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”

1 Samuel 17:45-47

David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

The thing that stands out about David is his confidence in God and not in his own abilities. If only we would put our trust in God like David! If only we would be confident because of what the one and only true God has done for us!

THE CAPTAIN