Last night we saw some faces that have been missing for a couple of weeks, and it was a delight to have them back. We also boasted a host of our regular wild and crazy students! All in all it was a great crowd and we thank God for each and every one of our students.
We began the night as usual, multiple balls flying by any given persons face at near sound breaking speeds, students literally bouncing off the walls, and everyone having a blast! Then, we settled them down, made a few announcements (No Gangway on March 4th) and proceeded to explain our opening game. Seeing that Valentine's day is coming up we played a charged up version of famous couples. Some famous couples included: Mickey and Minnie Mouse, The King and Queen of Hearts and Jack and Jill. It was a riot!
Having finished up our opening game we split up the guys and girls for our lesson time. The girls went with my wife Amy (ask them about the surprise I left them in their room) and the guys with myself and Mr. Ulrich. We discussed Proverbs 4:23: Keep you heart with all vigilance, For from it flow the springs of life. I told a story of how I was supposed to take the garbage out on night and I thought "I'll just do it tomorrow." Well, a week or 2 passed and the garbage was just piling up until the stench was so bad that I had to take it out. I told them that I had neglected my duty, my responsibility. I related this to the necessity we have to vigilantly keep our heart, if we neglect it then it will eventually start to stink like the world and sin. Then came the pay off question, "why?" I noted that out of our heart flow the springs of life. However, if we neglect our hearts the springs of life will not flow out of them, but springs of dirty, rotten water. We looked briefly at Matthew 12:34 - Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Thus, we concluded that our speech can often reveal our heart. If we are constantly putting others down, making fun of others, lying, being disrespectful, then we can get a pretty good idea of our hearts condition. On the flip side, if our speech is good then the condition of our heart is probably good as well. Whatever the case, we must keep our heart with all vigilance, looking after it and caring for it.
After our lesson, we turned them all loose for some good old fashioned dodge ball. Our night culminated with a free for all pegging session in which I got hit right in the neck, but hey, sometimes you gotta take one for the team.
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