free files for youth pastors:
KTL 06 – Preaching the Gospel in Your Text (mp3)
In this KTL session, our 4 main preacher guys discussed the main truths they found for their passages (from the last week’s lesson). Then I taught them on the importance of pointing their passage to the gospel by seeing the passage’s perspective on the person and work of Christ…and the response of man in repentance and faith. Take a listen.
Over our church’s mission conference called “GIC: Global Impact Celebration”, CBSM had in guest speaker, Chuck Rheam, who is an awesome church planter in San Diego, CA. As our students are challenged to be involved in missions, we don’t want them to forget the incredible missions opportunities going on all over our nation: church planting. Listen to Pastor Chuck for a strong challenge to be involved in church planting in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And for an extra added bonus, something we never get to do, our CBSM praise band plays too songs at the end of the mp3…acoustic style.
Chuck Rheam (church planter out of San Diego, CA with Centerpoint Church) was CBSM’s guest speaker during our church’s GIC: Global Impact Celebration conference on missions. He whipped up a powerful sermon for our students on Saturday night of the conference. Check it out here if you weren’t able to listen. He basically preached on: “Do you have what it takes to be a missionary.” Listen to find out what it takes, and how to grow in it.
This last Wednesday’s sermon was pretty deep. So, here’s a short attempt to summarize it simply. There are lots of tough questions when it comes God’s providence. The two toughest questions that we covered were why would God create Satan knowing he would cause the world to be cursed with sin, and why would God create Adam, put everything under his feet as the head of the creation, and allow him to fall into sin. Obviously God knew that this would happen. The best way to explain this is understanding the “Greater Good Theory.” The Greater Good Theory says that God IS God so He MUST always do what is absolutely best. God cannot even choose what is second best because He is God who always does what IS best. God’s best is what glorifies Him most, and what glorifies God most is a world that brings glory to His Son. So, why did God create Satan and allow him to sin? It seems it is because that is God’s BEST way to bring glory to Himself by the whole world seeing all sides of His character: love, mercy, grace, judgment, wrath, forgiveness, etc. God’s greatest good was to create a world with the potential to sin so that He could show off every characteristic of His nature. Why did God create Adam with the ability to sin knowing full well what would happen? It is because God’s greatest good was to create Adam while full-well knowing that Jesus would take His place with everything under his feet. That is this last Wednesday night in a nutshell. God can only do what is absolutely best. God absolute best is the glory of His Son being supremely displayed, and the best what for that to happen was to bring about the greatest good with the world He has created and sustained. Deep stuff!
free resources for youth pastors and small group leaders
1 – Doctrine of Providence – Problem of Evil (mp3)
1 – Doctrine of Providence – Problem of Evil (notes)
1 – Doctrine of Providence – Problem of Evil (handout)
1 – Doctrine of Providence – Problem of Evil (service)
1 – Doctrine of Providence – Problem of Evil (small groups)
sermon intro video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJjOmZH7Fc
We’re taking a break from our normal Storyline series that goes through the whole Bible, and we’re going to look at the Doctrine of Providence for this month in our Framework series. I don’t want our student ministry to just be about “love Jesus”. I also want us to know the truth of Jesus from His Word. So we’re taking a long, hard look at what providence is and what it means for our lives. We call this series Framework because we want God’s timeless truths to be the Framework structure that holds our lives, faith, and thoughts together. We’re tackling super tough questions in this series, so I hope you enjoy it with us!
you may have already seen our Esther sermon intro video, but you may not have seen it will all the lyrics yet. The main genius behind our videos is the way Andrew has written them with unreal detail to the biblical book behind it. Check it out one more time, and definitely read the lyrics with it!
