Today is Monday, wohoo!!! and while everyone is busy trying to figure out how to start another week, or missed homework, or stressing out about a quiz or a test they forgot, YOU are on a secret mission. Before you start your mission, think of the person you’ll see today that drives you nuts the […]

This week we heard a simple message with life changing energy – nope, not the one about the 3 electrical charges and yes that happened. The message was from John 13:1-17 about influencing others by serving. Jesus said: “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s […]

“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who […]

“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” – James 1:5 Knowing exactly how our influence reaches people can be complicated. There can be what we might call “inconsistencies” in our faith.  This means we act great but […]

Today spend some time with the Lord asking Him to work on your heart.  Talk to Him about what being close to Him means.  Meditate on the verse where Jesus calls some of his disciples in Matthew 4:18-20 (NIV): As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his […]

Yesterday, we looked at a passage in James that told us to ask the Lord for wisdom in everything. Take out your paper that you filled in from your Bible study time this week. You were asked a lot of questions about where your heart is with the Lord. Take a moment and look through […]

“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.” – William Ellery Channing Do you believe this is true?  Could it be that God has given you influence for Him, that is only yours? […]

Peter who was called to follow Jesus to “fish for people” went on to have tremendous influence as he walked with Jesus. (To read a lot about some of this read Acts Chapter 2&3).  He made some mistakes along the way, but he kept coming back to the Lord.  In Acts 3: 4-7, we meet […]

Let’s take what we talked about on Friday and make a list of all the places you know people right now. It could be class, sports teams, clubs, or friends. That is where you have an influence Take a minute to think about the kind of influence you have in all of those places. If […]