iYouthPastor.com » Holidays http://iyouthpastor.com Because Students Matter!~ Mon, 03 May 2010 17:38:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Happy Thanksgiving http://iyouthpastor.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving/ http://iyouthpastor.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:16:28 +0000 admin http://iyouthpastor.com/?p=21 I hope you have a great Thanksgiving. I love this time of year because of the 5 F’s! Family, Friends, Food, Fun, & Football! I also, love Thanksgiving because it is a time of year that we are driven to have a heart of Thankfulness. Life is so much better when we live out our lives with thankful hearts. It is so easy to look around and focus on the hard times in life that we lose sight of all that God is doing in our lives. I really admire anyone who is in the middle of a hard time and still looks to God with a Thankful Heart. At breakfast yesterday, I was listening to my wife’s grandpa pray. Just over a month ago his wife of 60+ years passed away and in his prayer I heard so many praises of thankfulness and thank you’s to Jesus that it was moving to listen. His heart is hurting from losing his buddy and wife, but his heart is full of thankfulness because he knows his God is so much bigger than our hurts and losses in life.

Take a moment on Thanksgiving and each and everyday to remember how Good God is!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, “16Be joyful always; 17pray continually; 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

]]> http://iyouthpastor.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving/feed/ 0 Christmas Sermons & Messages Discussion http://iyouthpastor.com/2009/11/christmas-sermons-messages-discussion/ http://iyouthpastor.com/2009/11/christmas-sermons-messages-discussion/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:35 +0000 admin http://iyouthpastor.com/?p=8 We want a discussion about what creative ways you are teaching the Christmas message but still remaining biblically faithful. It is so hard for youth pastors to stay fresh for students yet make sure we don’t water down the significance of the Christmas message. Please leave your thoughts and ideas on what you will be teaching during the Christmas Season. Any catchy and relevant titles would be fun too!

Christmas Facebook Discussion

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