Alpha and Omega Youth
“I am the Alpha
and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and was, and is to come, the
Almighty.”
-Revelation 1:8
We are the youth group of Hillcrest Baptist
Church.
We meet on Wednesday nights
starting at 6:30 p.m.
380 Dover Rd is where we gather.
Information
All you need to know and might not want to know about us
We have lots of fun...
We:
Watch funny videos
Play games
Laugh a lot
Sing (to the best of our ability), led by a cool guy who plays guitar
Have a pretty awesome youth pastor
And most
importantly
We study God’s Word and apply what we learn from it to our lives.
Youth
Column
Jack's article in the church newsletter
I supposed that some day the whiteboard
will completely replace the old-fashioned chalkboards in our schools—if
they haven’t already.
One of the nice things about whiteboards
is that you can use different colored markers to make your message stand
out and make it more interesting. If you are writing with a black marker
and want to make a word stand out from the others, you can switch to red.
Or in my case—misspell any particular word, and you can just wipe it off
and start over again.
One thing I have noticed about
whiteboards is that as you use it day after day, you begin to see stains
left on the board. If you look at the whiteboard in the fellowship hall,
you can see where it’s built up marker and it doesn’t come clean when you
rub it with a cloth or eraser. You can wash it with soap and water, but the
stains won’t come out. That is why they make this special whiteboard
cleaner. Just spray it on and wipe it with a cloth and the stains of the
old marks are gone and your board is as white as new.
We have just begun a new year. It is
time to erase the mistakes of the past year and begin with a clean state.
“Brothers, I do not consider myself to
have taken hold it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and
reaching forward to what is ahead” (Phil 3:13)
I’m sure most of our mistakes are more
important than a misspelled word. There are some things that we have done
that God has told us in the Bible not to do. We know that as sin. Some of
those sins we have done time and time again and they have left a stain upon
our lives which we cannot erase—to really be honest, all out whiteboard
needs is one sin, or stain—and then we are unable to wipe it clean. We don’t
even have an eraser capable of making it white again.
We must have God’s forgiveness to take
away those stains—and we can have God’s forgiveness because of Jesus. Jesus
is like this special whiteboard cleaner. If we turn to Jesus and ask him to
forgive us of our sins, he will wash away our sin and we will be as white
as snow.
Then we can truly start the new year
with a clean slate!
-Jack
