Ground Zero Youth Ministry
Pastor Mike Atkins, Youth Pastor
125 Saginaw Rd
New London Twp, PA 19352
Church: (610) 869-2140
GZ Office: (610) 869-7332
Fax: (610) 869-7823
Mike@GZYouth.com
www.GZYouth.com
I've begun looking for the small ways my faith is tested and welcoming them for what they are: indicators that the Lord is working to change and refine me. He cares enough not to give up on the potential He has put within me.
Mary Scott
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become
actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they
become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--
Frank Outlaw
We often see billboards that read GOT MILK? I believe we as Christians should make a billboard that reads GOT JESUS? If not, you need him and believe me that is enough.
The Super bowl was coming. Every sinful person was praying to God and asking him to let their team win. Well I have a comment about that and the comment is: Yes, GOD hears your prayer but he doesn't care about the game. It's your soul he cares about.
The above two quotes were submitted by Margie Dixon,14 years old.
All the Lord wants,
Is my all,
All he desires,
Is my all,
All he wants,
Is my all,
All I have,
He wants all.
Mike Hulme, 2002, Florida
God is a like a book, we can see the cover, and we can hear the pages as they
turn, but until we actually read the book then we will truly know what the book
(God) is all about. We are also sometimes the only Bible people hear. - Joey
Dean
Satan is like a cobra. When Satan is around we know he is going to strike us no matter what move we make. So instead of following Satan where we are destined to hell, why don't we all just look up give our lives to Christ and take a step back from Satan and know that we will be saved by Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. - Joey Dean
Your life is an example
For others to plainly view
You're either building for the Lord
Or you're on the wrecking crew.
Thank God you're not the jury,
Thank God I'm not the judge,
Here's to the bigger picture,
Here's to the bigger love!"
Martyn Joseph
A true missionary is not necessarily the one who goes to a foreign country; but is one who can never grow accustomed to the thud of Christ-less feet on the way to a lost eternity.
Question: How do you know if you are going to have a good day?
Answer: When you wake up!
Question: How do you know if you are going to have the best day ever?
Answer: When you wake up and see Jesus sitting at the right hand of God!
Submitted by Dan Atha
I don't give God 10% of my income. He let's me keep 90% of His! - Louie Tropf
I asked God "How much time do I have before I die"?
He replied, "Enough to make a difference."
Salvation is so simple we can overlook it, so profound we can never comprehend it, so priceless we could never buy it; yet free for all who will believe and receive.
Sometimes it takes seeing our blessings through the eyes of someone else before we can grasp how truly blessed we really are.
The Bible does not begin with, "Once upon a time".
If we take the problems of life and lay them down, they become a path on which we can walk on through life. However if we stack them up, they become a wall that closes us in from life.
Oftentimes God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
If building God's church depended on me, would it ever get done?
Sin will take you farther than you ever planned to go.
Sin will keep you longer than you ever planned to stay.
And sin will cost you more than you ever planned to pay.
Every Christian should have two planks in his platform; one is for what he will stand for; and the other is for the things he will not stand for.
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to him.
Happiness Digest, P.44, Paragraph 2
Study the Bible to be wise,
Believe it to be safe,
Practice it to be holy."
When God measures us, he puts the tape around the heart instead of the
head.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to
McDonald's makes you a hamburger.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much
more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Never let your head hang down, never sit and grieve; find another way.
And
don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
A small child and his father were looking heaven- ward one bright starlit
night. After quietly and reverently observing the stars for a long time, the
small boy, holding his father's hand, said, "If the bottom side of heaven is
this pretty, then how beautiful the other side must be!"
If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
There is only one way to spell Joy ...
J = Jesus
O = Others
Y = Yourself
The time to get your spiritual instrument in tune is early in the morning before the concert of the day begins.
1 TREE + 3 NAILS = 4 GIVEN
"We must remind mothers who choose to care for their own children that doing so does not put them in a "servile and dangerous state," as the feminists claim. Instead, motherhood is a sacred trust from God."
Chuck Colson [Breakpoint May 7, 1999]
Sorrow looks back...
Worry looks around...
But, faith looks up
Feeling far from God? Guess who moved?
Someone once asked Billy Graham, "If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives."
There is a story of a man who was walking down the street. He paused at a used book store, and in the window he saw a book with the title, How to Hug. He was taken by the title and, being somewhat of a romantic nature, went in to buy the book. To his chagrin, he discovered it was the seventh volume of an encyclopedia and covered the subjects "How" to "Hug".
Everyone knows that the church is a place where love ought to be manifested, and many people have come to church hoping to find a demonstration of love - only to discover an encyclopedia on theology.
In 1728, potatoes were outlawed in Scotland because they were not mentioned in the Bible.
Let your minister be who he is - real. Let him be! Give him the latitude you want for yourself. Give him the same amount of room the grace of God affords you. Don't force him into some traditionalistic mold.
The Women who appear in Scripture are competent, secure, qualified people who
had responsible roles to fill.
Taken from Stress Fractures,
P. 141
A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has
earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city
gate.
Proverbs 31:30,31 NIV
There are only two ways you can study the Bible:
1. Studying it with your mind made up.
2. Studying it to let it make up your mind.
Givers can be divided into three types: the flint, the sponge and the honeycomb. Some givers are like a piece of flint - to get anything out of it you must hammer it, and even then you only get chips and sparks. Other are like a sponge - to get anything out of a sponge you must squeeze it and squeeze it hard, because the more you squeeze a sponge, the more you get. But others are like a honeycomb - which just overflows with its own sweetness. That is how God gives to us, and it is how we should give in turn.
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