When this commercial aired 2 weeks ago I thought this would make a great sermon series. the verse that came to my mind was: 1Timothy 4:8 For physical training is of some value but but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. Here are the first 4 "I Will" things that came to my mind
Week 1: "I Will" Come Week 2: "I Will" Connect Week 3: "I Will" Grow Week 4: "I Will" Worship
Our culture points our students to a life that is all about them. Who can be the strongest, who can be the fastest and who can be the best. Now, I am not saying being competitive is a bad thing all but when it becomes more important that God, it gets dangerous. There is nothing wrong with being any of those things but sometimes I think we forget who gave us those abilities. If we can get our students to understand that you can be the best athlete in the country and still make no impact in others lives. Why is that, because there is always going to be someone faster and stronger. So when the next all everything athlete comes into your sport and your time on top ends, you will be ok. There are not many people who use their abilities to further others and not themselves but when they do arrive, their impact is felt and talked about for eternity. Not because they were great but they make everyone around them better, physically and spiritually!!! The series "I Will" series I hope will help our students humble themselves even if they have been blessed with being the smartest, fastest, strongest, most popular student at school and tell the dumbest, slowest, weakest most unpopular student at school that no matter what, God has a Great and Wonderful plan for their lives.
I am the high school pastor at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Nashville Tenn!!! My passion is telling students how much God loves them and he has a perfect plan for their life not matter what their present circumstances look like. I love traveling to speak at different places to tell people how great our God is. I love basketball, running and spin class.
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I love readding, and thanks for your artical. ........................................
Week 5: "1 Timothy 4 has nothing to do with sports accolades at all." Way to marginalize a great verse pal-
I also love that "I will come" is first and "I will worship" is last. Good to know you have your ministry priorities in good order.
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