Game Day // Week 3

It's a wrap on our Game Day series and it was a special one. This series, like I've said before, has ushered in a turning point in our student ministry. We have seen our students come alive in their worship and in their small group time! Big things are happening and we are pumped for it!

Whether it's in sports or in life, there's going to be a time of adversity in our lives and as Christians, it should drive us away from Jesus but to Jesus. Also, as Christians, we have hope that we don't have to walk through it alone.

Maturity in Christ comes through adversity in life. Being a Christian doesn't exclude you from adversity but it does reveal our need for Jesus and other people.

Count it ALL JOY, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith parodies steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4

Trials should be a Christians best friend. It's how we see trials that's important. Trials are OPPORTUNITIES not OBSTACLES. 

The world says, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"
The gospel says, "Good things happen to bad people."

God is trying to grow us through trials.

If God didn't give you more than you could handle, we wouldn't need Him.

Trials aren't meant to make you weaker but STRONGER! They aren't to destroy you but to DEVELOP you!

Trials are unavoidable but Jesus is always available!

We are more concerned with our comfort than we are our character!

"The presence of pain doesn't mean the absence of God." -Derwin Gray

The SIZE or AMOUNT of our trials are no match for the God we serve!

Trials are TEMPORARY but God is ETERNAL!

Jesus not only takes care of our trials but he's taken care of our sins!