NEWS AND VIEWS
 Sports Plus Conference: 7-10 April
Book Now!!
Not long until the Sports Plus Conference - we're really
excited. 4 great days of Bible teaching, Pray Play Say seminars, sport and
loads of fun with friends old and new!
If you're planning to come and haven't booked
yet drop us an email or call to let us know and download the booking form (here)
and get it back to the office asap!
Also coming up...One Day Sports Plus camps:
Belfast: 27 March
Perthshire: 5 April
Oxfordshire: 26 April
Click
here for more information.
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PLAYER PROFILE
Introducing the Academy 08...
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Name: Andrew (Stuart) Gledhill
Nicknames: Gledders, Mini-Cheddars, Gleds, Gledso,
Lank on the flank, Cheggars, Andy Pandy
Home town: Chalfont St Peter
Top Sport: Football but have dabble in most sports!
Why the Academy?: I wanted to do some mission work
and thought doing something relating to sport, and with my
great interest in it, was a top idea! I also want to learn
more and develop in my faith and relationship with God, and
have some quality study and teaching time to prepare me for
the future, which I believe doing the Academy will help
with! Also to meet lots of new people, bring myself out of
my comfort zone some more and be a witness through it all,
as well as having a lot of banter of the highest order!
Bring it on fellas (and girls)!!
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BIBLE BIT
Series: Do
everything with all your heart
Colossians 3v23 says
"whatever you do work at it
with all your heart as working for the lord, not for
men."
Session 4: What is the Christian's motivation?
Well my good friends – what a glorious day!
Today we’ll take time out to focus on what today is all
about but try and understand it whilst trying to answer
the question ‘What is the Christian's motivation’
What happened on Good Friday? Good Friday is the day
that Christians celebrate the death of Jesus. What a
strange thing to celebrate. No-one celebrates death, but
today the death of Jesus is celebrated – why?
We need to turn to the Bible – to God’s word!
1 Peter 3v18: “For Christ died for
sins once and for all, the righteous for the unrighteous
to bring you to God” Jesus died and the reason
why he died was for the sins of human beings. The Bible
teaches that everyone has turned their back on God and
this is sin. Not only that, but because we have rebelled
against God we deserve to be punished. Jesus died to
take away our punishment – He died instead of me and
you, the righteous for the unrighteous! And so he died
to take the punishment for sin to bring you to God. That
is the ultimate reason. You and I no longer face God’s
wrath, instead we receive his love and the most loving
thing he can do is to bring you back to God the father,
the one who created you!
IS THAT NOT A THING WORTH CELEBRATING TODAY!!
So what is a Christian's motivation? Simple – it’s the
cross! Without it we would perish. Without it we would
die. But because of it we are saved. Because of it we
really live!
Today is GOOD FRIDAY – what a good day!!
Go and Play for Him because of the Cross!
The Youth Department
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