HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well unfortunately the blog hasn't been updated in far too long. Anyway I finally got the pictures from wrestling up. As usual follow click the Battalion Pics link and find the Wrestling 08 album.

Hopefully you guys are all having awesome holidays, I know I am.

I am not usually an New Year's Resolution type of a guy but I was thinking about how we have had a couple bible studies this fall about the Word of God and how important it is in our lives and how we need to have a good knowledge of it to be able to discern right from wrong sometimes. So this year I am hoping to read the entire Bible. I found a reading plan that involves reading passages from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs each day. It amounts to about 3 chapters a day but because of the way it is broken up I think it will be easy. It could even be read a little in the morning and a little at night. i haven't totally decided yet but it will force me to spend some time reading every day. I am hoping that some of you guys will join me in this. I think it would be awesome if we could get a bunch of us to keep us accountable to read every day and to encourage us that we can do it even when we don't feel like it or are busy. We could even read it together with our Dads or sons, or spouses.

I know I am a bit late getting it posted up here but if you read this in the next couple days you could even catch up to where you should be or just start with whatever is there for that day. I have the readings posted for the whole month January and I will do my best to get then next month posted well ahead of time so that you don't miss anything. A great way to do it would be to set the blog as your internet homepage and then each day you would be able to see the passage you need to read right away. If you guys are going to do this post up here so that we can see who all is in.

First Battalion is next week (January 6) see you all there. Bring your verses I hope you used at least some of your holidays to memorize.

Memory Verse Update

Well the flurry of memory verses being recited to me on Tuesday caught me off guard a little bit. Great job guys. As you can see Nicholas grabbed the Pepsi for being in the lead this week. Unless Noah or Jerrod can memorize something for me for Sunday then he will be doing it again next week.

As well as that Phil shared with us how we are not defined by what we wear or what have or even by what nationality we are. We are defined by the fact that we are children of God. Then we looked at some of God's promises to his children in Proverbs 3, 1 Thessalonians 4, and Hebrews 12.

Keep the verses coming guys. Don't forget Wrestling is next week, Don't Miss It!!!

Memory Verses

Well it has been quite a while since the blog had a post. My appologies. If you weren't at Battalion last night here is a summary of what you missed. We started the night off reading about the armor of God in Ephesians 6. We also had cheeseburgers for anyone who had their bible with them. Suprisingly even though I told everyone last week there were still some guys missing theirs.

After that we started out with some british bulldog, which is always good. Then we played football for a bit. My team got destroyed in the football game. I think Ryan got 3 touchdowns on us.

In Council Ring we talked about the sword of the spirit and how it can be used in our lives. We read about how Jesus used it to resist temptation and how he had to know the bible well to know that Satan was using verses out of context to tempt him. After that we handed out the Memory Verse sheets so you can get started on memorizing. I said it last night but I will say it again. You have four months to get the verses done, out of that four months you will be on holidays for a month of it, including Christmas and Spring breaks. Last year nobody finished so there was no trip to go on. In order to try to create more incentive this year we decided that the guys who finished the memory verses would get to decide what we would do for a trip.

Afterwards, Phil, Bob, Luke and I, talked about the things we want to do in the spring. Keep checking back in the upcoming events section, I will update that soon.

We also started brainstorming some possible trips for the memory verse guys. Some ideas we had so far were: 6 Flags, West Edmonton Mall, Creation Fest, Vancouver Whitecaps game. We'll have to see who actually finishes.

Here are some pictures of West Ed to get you excited. This waterpark is amazing!!!