FIRST NIGHT OF BTLN

Congrats Dolan! Dolan has the first Helmet of the new Btln season! It was an amazing beginning to the new year! So many guys in the gym!

We started the year with a single game of Murderball! That's right, you heard me right, we only had time for one game of Murderball! The game went back and forth several times, both teams each having a chance to win. Finally Ben's team grabbed a big enough lead that my team could not battle back. Ben's team winning what was probably the longest game of Murderball in Btln history!

Caleb Tomilin missed the Btln grad ceremony on Last Night of Btln. Caleb was back at Btln this week, so we had an impromptu grad for Caleb! It was good to have Caleb back and so nice that his brother Linden was there to watch Caleb receive his Bible!

This week our Bible study was about Daniel.

Daniel 6:1-5 It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”

Daniel stood out among the 120 satraps because of his exceptional qualities! What an amazing example for us to follow! Daniel was trustworthy and neither corrupt or negligent!

Daniel 6:6-7 So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever! The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.

Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Daniel was faithful and continued praying to God even though he knew that he would probably die!

Daniel 6:19-23 At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den. When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”

Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”


The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Daniel 6:25-27 Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly! “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God
and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed,
his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves;
he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

In the end, because Daniel was faithful all nations learned that the God of Daniel rescues and saves! Will we be faithful like Daniel?

THE CAPTAIN