BTLN UPDATE - G*I*T*D BASKETBALL

Congrats Josh! This is Josh's third Helmet of the Btln Season! Josh has moved into sole possession of first place in the race for Winston! Aaron was there at the end with Josh, finishing second for the first time! Aaron will eventually win if he puts in the huge effort like he did this week!

This week we played G*I*T*D Basketball! It is visually pleasing and a lot of fun to play! The game was evenly matched, but Reese took over in the overtime, scoring two of three baskets for his team! Team Green winning in the overtime 3-1!


This week our Bible study was about Jonah.


Jonah 1:1-5   The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.

God asks Jonah to go to Nineveh, and instead Jonah disobeys and tries to run from God.

Jonah 1:11-12   The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

Jonah 1:16-17   Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.
Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

God saves Jonah with a big fish, and gives him a second chance to do the right thing!

Jonah 3:3-5   Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

Jonah 3:10   When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

Jonah 4:1-2   But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

Jonah should have been rejoicing that God was gracious and compassionate! God had given him a second chance, why wouldn't he do the same for the people of Nineveh?

Psalm 130:3-4   If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

Ephesians 4:32   Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

We should be thankful that God is gracious and compassionate with us! We should also be kind and compassionate to others because of what Christ has done for us!

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