BTLN UPDATE

Congrats to Sonny! This was Sonny's first Btln Helmet ever! We have had so many first time Helmet winners in the last two Btln Season's! Sonny has been close to winning several times this year and now has his first Helmet!

This week we played Murderball for the first time since the Three B's. We played four games, ending up in a 2-2 tie. Time was running short so we went to a "One on One" overtime game! Each team selected one player to play in the overtime. Josh was selected for Ben's team and Sonny was selected for Jason's team. The overtime took longer than expected, but in the end it was Josh hitting Sonny for the win! Ben's team winning 3-2! (We might have to work on the details of the overtime.)


In the Bible study our topic was God's Faithfulness.

1 John 1:9   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24   May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

1 Corinthians 1:8-9   He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Hebrews 10:23   Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Our salvation is completely dependent on God's faithfulness! God is going to forgive and purify us. He will also sanctify and keep us and is the one that brings us hope!

Romans 3:3-4   What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”

2 Timothy 2:13   If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

Isn't it comforting to know that God's faithfulness does not hinge on our faithfulness? God is the faithful friend that we all need! He is the friend that will stick closer than a brother!

Proverbs 18:24   One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.



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BTLN UPDATE

Congrats to Josh! This is Josh's sixth Helmet of the Btln Season! Sonny was there at the end with Josh, and was running hard, but was unable to last as long as Josh. Josh is on pace to crush the Helmet total for a single Btln Season! Zach Gobbet's eight Helmets in the 2011/12 Btln Season is the current Btln record.

In the past we used to play gym football, but lately the numbers have been to high to play football, until now. It was so good to bring back a Btln Classic! Jason started the scoring with a beautiful pass to Isaac in the end zone. Jason's team had the early 7-0 lead. My team could not sustain a drive and it looked like we would lose 7-0. Suddenly Chris intercepted the ball and ran it back for a touchdown! The game ended in a 7-7 tie, a fitting way to end a close game.


This week our Bible study topic was, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"


Romans 8:20-23   For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.


The reason why bad things happen to anyone in this world is because we live in a broken world. Ever since Adam sinned, the whole earth has been subject to decay. This passage also teaches us that even those that have trusted in God will also experience pain.


Romans 8:18    I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18   Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

The good news is, that the suffering that we endure here on this earth, will not be worth comparing to the glory that is waiting for us in heaven! It will be worth it all! (Paul is the one writing this, and he knew suffering. Read 2 Corinthians 11:24-30)

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BTLN UPDATE

Congrats to Jacob(Greenwood)! It was Jacob's sixteenth birthday on Wednesday Night and it was also his first Btln Helmet ever! What a way to celebrate his birthday! Jonathan was there at the end with Jacob, but was unable to avoid the crowd and last as long as Jacob.

This week we played the Btln Trifecta. We started with Handball first to seven. Luke's team beating Isaac's team 7-5. Next we played Fire-Fever-Flood. The final four were Isaac and Jonathan for Isaac's team and Luke and Josh for Luke's Team. Jonathan went down first and then it was Isaac next leaving Luke and Josh, giving Luke's team the 2-0 win in the Btln Trifecta!


In the Bible study our topic was "Serving Others".

Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves.

1 Corinthians 10:24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.

Galatians 5:13-14 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”

Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Philippians 2:21 For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Our culture will tell you to look out for yourself first, but God's word teaches the opposite! We are supposed to honour others above ourselves, seek the good of others and value others above ourselves. The final passage summarizes all the other passages perfectly. The world will always look out for their own interests first. We who are saved by Jesus put others first, because Jesus put our needs before his own when he died on the cross for our sins!

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