FCA this Thursday 12/20/12

We will not be adopting a family this year for Christmas.  Instead we will be participating in God’s Gift.  God’s Gift is a program I have adopted and tweaked from my church.  Megan and I are taking our tithe and giving every FCA student 5 dollars to bless someone in need.  You are essentially taking God’s money and using it to bless someone in need.  This is not my money, this is God’s money. It is up to you to decide who/how you are going to bless someone in need.  You can take God’s 5 dollar bill and combined in with your own money, or another family member, or another member of FCA.  It’s completely up to you.  You can do almost anything with the 5 dollars.  You can bless someone all at once, or separate the money in several blessings.  Remember, this is God’s money. Some examples of what you can do: buy food for a homeless person, buy any kind of warm clothing for a person in need, buy a gift for a child in need, some churches have Christmas trees with gift needs attached to the tree; buy one and give that gift.  You can take God’s 5 dollars and buy cooking supplies and bake a cake for a neighbor.  Buy coffee for a neighbor.  Take a meal over to a friend.  Use the money to help a neighbor fix something.  Anything and everything goes, as long as there is a need to bless someone.  Please try not to buy something for your family unless there is a tremendous need for that person. Please feel free to remind the person you are blessing how much God has blessed you and that God loves them.  When you are finished with God’s Gift I want to hear about it.  Every person will HAVE to write, or type me a letter telling me how they used God’s money to bless others.  I will be expecting this letter when we get back from Christmas break.  We are going to read them out loud the week we get back. Have a great time blessing others.  Get in the Christmas spirit and remember your Saviors birth. 

James 4:13-17

This week Eleanor, McKenna, Jenna, Andrea are going to lead FCA in James 4:13-17. These are their questions for this week.

Our Will and His Will
¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” ¹⁴ You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

¹⁵ Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.

1. How you ever bragged about things you have done?
2. Why do we boast?
3. Why do we sin when we know what we are doing is evil?
4. What does verse 14 mean when it says,"You are like a smoke that appears for a little while?
5. Have you ever "listned" to God to say something to do something good but done the oppisite?
6. What is God's will.
7. What are some things God wills opon us?

T-shirt orders are here $16.00

They will be the exact opposite colors.  Blue will be red, and gold will be gold.  LOL  Please make checks payable to Valley Spirit.  We will be ordering them on the 20th of December.  There is no school on December 21st, so make sure you order soon.  Thanks

Here are some pics from FCA 12/7/12

Here we are praying

Here is a little teaching

Riverview is in the God's Word

James 4:1-12

This week Maddy,Kylie,and Alyssa are doing James 4:1-12

4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?^{[a] 2} You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

⁴ Adulteresses!^[b][c] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy. ⁵ Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?<sup>[d]

6</sup> But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.^[e]

⁷ Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

¹¹ Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ¹² There is one lawgiver and judge^[f] who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

1. What would life be like if God didn't  give grace?

2. In verse 6 it says, God gives us greater grace. what are some ways we show grace?

3.In verse 6 What does it means when it says,'' God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble?

4. What does it mean when it says "be miserable and mourn and weep"?

5.What is the source wars among you ?

6. What do you think  verse 3 means ?" you ask and you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, so taht you may spend it on your evil desires'