Youth Alpha

What is Youth Alpha?

Youth Alpha is a version of the Alpha Course -- however, this course is intended for teens ages 11-18. It is a time for exploring Christian faith in a fun and relaxed way.

At Youth Alpha, you are in an environment where NO questions are STUPID!

Topics covered:

Intro session:

• Is there more to life than this?

Ten topics:

• Who is Jesus?
• Why did Jesus die?
• How can I be sure of my faith?
• Why and how do I pray?
• Why and how should I read the Bible?
• How does God guide us?
• How can I resist evil?
• Why and how should we tell others?
• Does God heal today?
• What about the Church?

Weekend away:

• Who is the Holy Spirit?
• What does the Holy Spirit do?
• How can I be filled with the Spirit?
• How can I make the most of the rest of my life

Click HERE to learn more about Youth Alpha!

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A great stab found its way into my heart,
as I felt my possessions being thrown from my hand’s grasp.
Fear had frosted my eyes,
along with the rest of my body.
I felt as though my body weighed one thousand pounds,
and my cloths were another five hundred.
My balance was torn from me.
I toppled for a moment,
hoping to gain strength.
I knew it was no use,
to even try a mite.
As my body started to sink,
my mind arose.
Not to brilliant plans of escape,
as it might have done weeks before,
but to review the last
minutes,
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hours,
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days,
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weeks,
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months,
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years,
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of my life.
No one seemed to care,
that I had so many burdens,
so many cares,
so many problems to endure,
all alone,
in this vast cursed world.
At last my hurled body,
had found the hard rigged surface that it waited for each time.
The screams,
the shouts,
all as boggling as a frightful blizzard.
Would I ever be rescued?
Shoved,
slammed.
Just one time?
The commotion was thick around me,
a blur I didn’t want to comprehend.
All the sounds and swirls slowed,
but one,
yet all still remained.
That one remained,
long and strong.
Ignoring all the rest.
Why would one,
how could one,
survive these wretched blasts?
Why for me?
No one else would dare.
Muffled footsteps,
muffled voice,
and yet how clear it rang within my ears.
My rescuer came,
without a knife,
without a gun.
My rescuer came,
with a gold trimmed book.
That gold trimmed book,
is now my gold trimmed sword.

-- kinza
january 30th 2008

Spiritual Blindness

John 9:35-41

35 When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man? 36 The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I want to believe in him.” 37 “You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he is speaking to you!” 38 “Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said. And he worshiped Jesus. 39 Then Jesus told him, “I entered this world to render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.” 40 Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?” 41 “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

New Living Translation

God's Love For Us

1 John 4:7-12

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to on another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

NIV Translation

Blinded

BLINDED

It's What We Are And What We Will Always Be
We're Human What Can I Say
We're Ignorant And As Stubborn As Mules

. . . Most Of The Time . . .

But Then The Other Part Of The Time
It Clicks In With Us
We Heard
We Listened
To What God Had To Say

It's In Our Nature To Be In Control
But Why Should We Care
Or Even Dare
When Christ Is Here
It's Like We Can't Fully Trust Him
Now What's That For Nonsense

He Knows That We're Ignorant
And As Stubborn As Mules
He Knows We Need Him
And Sooner Than Later We All Know That Too
However Sometimes We Need That Little Reminder