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If you're wondering about the two blogs, yes I did delete them! I couldn't stand having them still up their! It made me sick to look at them!! Ok so forget ALL this!!
Now on a brighter note....well their really ISN'T a brighter note...uhh this stinks!!

Jesus: the Risen Lord

Ok so in d-groups tonight we discussed Jesus: the Risen Lord. We got into this discussion of how Jesus as the messiah fulfilled all these prophecies. I came and looked it up on Google and there were over 300! Thats alot! They were things like being born of a virgin, never breaking any bones, carrying his own cross, born in Bethleham, entering Jerusalem on a colt, and a bunch of other things. But what I thought was weird is that all these prophecies were made up over 400 years before Jesus was even born! And he fulfilled every one! Isn't cool how God knew that Jesus would do that! And whats even cooler is that there is a verse in the old testament of each and then one in the new testament showing Jesus did it!!
Our bible verse was John 20:1-23. Im not gonna type it all, but its basically the story of the empty tomb when the two women went and found the tomb empty and Jesus had risen from the dead. Its so cool how God just rose him from the dead when NO ONE else could be!

D-Now

Hey ok so I just got home from D-NOW awhile ago, and it was amazing! I realized that before D-NOW God wasn't my main priority and thats changing. I am doing a 180 from what I used to be. I used to talk and do things that weren't exactly bad but God wouldn't like it, and now I have decided to leave that all behind. Im not gonna take away who I used to be. Like Ryan Stone said, you dont have to give up who you are to be a Christian, because God wants us to live life to the fullest. He wouldn't do that, I mean come on he loves us for goodness sakes! But what Im saying is the old me who didn't think God was so important that I had to praise him or just sit down for a minute or two with him each day. Now I realize that that is a crazy thought. I now WANT to sit down for a while and just talk to God about everything!

Wired Youth Ministries!

My youth minister Caleb Land has a blog too. Check it out. Its over on the sidebar. His blog has announcements, Bible verses, and random news stories!

D-GROUPS!

Okay so if you go to church with me, you know we have meetings on Sunday nights called D-Groups. One for girls and one for guys. They are led by the college students. Well we are reading a book called "Begining in Jesus" and tonight we learned how Jesus was a servent to set an example of how we should act toward others. The Bible verse we had was John 13:1-17. It was the story of how Jesus got down and cleaned his disciples feet to show how we should be a servent to him and others. We also discussed how Abraham whos only son, that his wife had when she was 80, was his only way for him to be Father of the Nations. But one day God told him to kill his son as a sacrafice to God. Abraham didn't want to and didn't understand how he could be Father of the Nations if he did. But he had faith that God would help him through everything if he killed his son, Isaac. So he took Isaac to a hilltop and built the altar. Then right when he was going to sacrafice Isaac, God stopped him and said it was a test to see if Abraham had enough faith to do anything for God.

God is constantly putting us to tests to see if we would do anything to prove our faith. And the only reason he gives us tests is because he believes we are strong enough to pass!

Myspace

YAY!! MY FIRST BLOG! OK so for those who have a myspace, mine is www.myspace.com/laurauga
follow the link and send me a friend request!