I found this post from Challies.com to be particularly challenging, and I think you will find it helpful as well. It explains how to backslide from the gospel. We don’t really need help to do that, but it is helpful to see where we have fallen in some of these areas, so that we might turn and renew our hearts and minds in Christ.

Here is how to backslide in nine easy steps:

1. Stop meditating on the gospel. “They draw off their thoughts, all that they may, from the remembrance of God, death, and judgment to come.”
2. Neglect your devotions and stop battling sin. “Then they cast off by degrees private duties, as closet prayer, curbing their lusts, watching, sorrow for sin, and the like.”
3. Isolate yourself from Christian fellowship. “Then they shun the company of lively and warm Christians.”
4. Stop going to church. “After that, they grow cold to public duty, as hearing, reading, godly conference, and the like.”
5. Determine that Christians are hypocrites because they continue to sin. “They then begin to pick holes, as we say, in the coats of some of the godly, and that devilishly, that they may have a seeming color to throw religion (for the sake of some infirmities they have espied in them) behind their backs.”
6. Trade Christian community for distinctly unChristian company. “Then they begin to adhere to, and associate themselves with, carnal, loose, and wanton men.”
7. Pursue rebellious conversation and fellowship. “Then they give way to carnal and wanton discourses in secret; and glad are they if they can see such things in any that are counted honest, that they may the more boldly do it through their example.”
8. Allow yourself to enjoy some small, sinful pleasures. “After this they begin to play with little sins openly.”
9. Admit what you are and prepare yourself for everlasting torment. “And then, being hardened, they show themselves as they are. Thus, being launched again into the gulf of misery, unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceivings.”

The complete post is here: http://www.challies.com/resources/how-to-backslide-in-9-easy-steps

We need you to register for summer camp ASAP! Final numbers are due this week.

This Saturday, April 28, we are going to have our Saturday Service at Iron Sports! We will meet at the church at 3pm and return to the church at 8pm. The cost is $10, which includes a healthy pizza dinner. You have to bring a waiver signed by a parent or you cannot participate! Waiver here.

• Where: Meeting at Church
• When: 3-8pm
• What: Obstacle Course Competition, Food, God’s Word
• How (much): $10
• What (to bring): Waiver Signed by a Parent

You may also take your student directly to Iron Sports. If you go directly to Iron Sports, please arrive by 4pm.

You can find directions and other information about Iron Sports at their website: http://www.ironsportsfit.com/

Should I work while I am in high school? Should I get involved in extracurricular activities? Which ones? How many? What should I do after high school? Should I go to college? Where? Should I date? Who should I date? Who should I marry?

Life has a lot of big decisions. It can be hard to know what we should do. As Christians, we want to know what God wants us to do. How can we know the will of God? How can we see His will in our life? This is the question we will be discussing in Sunday School for the next two weeks. Let’s seek God’s will together.

This Sunday, April 15, is the deadline for registration and for paying your $75 deposit!!! We have scholarships available if you would like to come but need help financially. Just talk to Daniel.

The registration form is here!

Just a reminder about the Saturday service this Saturday from 6-9pm. Good food. Games. God’s Word. Gospel. Growth.

I hope you are coming to the Spurgeon Conference tonight at 7! It is going to be awesome!

I am really looking forward to the Spurgeon Conference tonight! I hope to see you there!

Our Saturday service tonight is from 6 to 9 PM. We will be meeting in the fellowship hall, not the gym.

Just a reminder that we are having a Saturday Service this Saturday, 6-9pm! We are having pizza, so you don’t need to eat before you come. It’s going to be a great time. Come and bring a friend!