“Teach Us To Pray…”

So last night’s lesson was on Luke 11:1-13. We talked about prayer (obviously). We broke down the Lord’s prayer and then also looked at the story of a friend seeking bread at midnight and the parable of a gracious gift-giving father. Each section taught us something about prayer and the importance it should have in a Christian’s life.

After going through the verses, we did a little exercise on note cards to illustrate how powerful (yet short) prayers could be. Granted they don’t all need to be short, but at the same time a short daily prayer can be easily remembered and quoted throughout the day. I’ll share mine with you at the end. So to do this exercise all you have to do is take a note card, find a verse that is special to you and turn it into a 1-2 line prayer. Mine were as follows…

God, I surrender. (Gal 2:20)

LORD, Open My Heart to Give as You Gave. (I John 3:17)

Those were just 2 examples. Try when you get a chance. You can even make them into little picture or wall hangers as a daily reminder to pray! God Bless You All.

Ben

In The Know, On The Blog.

Alright Guys and Gals (Parents & Grandparents / Mammals & Other Creatures),

If you want to be in the know on all things NPBC Youth (aka: Living Scripture) then you are in the right place. This blog will contain all updates on trips, travel and events for Living Scripture! Please feel free to comment, or email me directly with any questions you have. I will try to keep this updated with both event related posts as well as lesson guides for study and updates on class, etc…

Praying always,

Bro. Ben

Can God Look Upon Sin?

It is a question that came up in Sunday School class a few weeks ago, and I hope to address it here as quickly and best I can. Please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion (and scriptural backing). God Bless.

So, CAN God look upon sin? Why do we ask that? Where does that question come from? Some believe it comes from Hab 1:13 “You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness…”. Yet others refer to Christ upon the cross crying out because God had forsaken Him. Either way, and from either case you could assume that God cannot look upon sin, yet we know Christ makes intercession for us and our sin. Even going back to the garden of Eden, we know Adam and Eve sinned; yet god came looking for them (still in their sin state).

I believe a more apt phrase would be that “God cannot look upon sin without an holy consequence.” The consequence being one of two things, punishment or forgiveness. So yes, God can look upon sin – but not without a resulting action of holy redemption or holy judgement.