The Kings Kidz Corner

Hey young people, I just saw one of the coolest gadgets ever.  Of course it was developed in part by Apple, Inc.  The device is a watch/pedometer/running coach.  It allows you to record your workouts and track them on nike+.com.  I think that this is a must have for anyone who is serious about taking their running and cross training workouts to a new level.  

In this week's lesson of the 40 Days of Community, the lesson was about growing together.  Together we learned about the requirements of growing together.  One of the requirements of growing together is patience with one another.  Another requirement for us to grow together is truthfulness with one another about our likes and dislikes.  Pastor Rick Warren gives is a few tools that we can use in order to be truthful with one another.  The first tool is to check your motives.  It is important that we speak the truth in love for the right reasons, not to hurt one another or to boost ourselves.  The next step is to plan our presentation by planning when we will say what we need to say, planning what we will say, and by planning how we will say it.  Pastor Warren says that we need to pray and tell the truth tactfully.  We need to speak lovingly and gently.  Finally, growing together requires forgiveness.  It is so important that we learn to forgive one another.  This forgiveness is not only for the person who has done wrong but it is also for the person who has been done wrong to.  Let's grow together people.
God Bless,
Min. JJ White III

Hey young people, last week's lesson in the 40 days of community was about belonging together.  In this lesson Pastor Rick Warren taught about love.  He talked about how love always protects, meaning that you will not talk about your brothers or sisters in a negative way.  You will work to protect them from the negativity that may be around.  Love trusts.  One of the things that I loved about what he said is that love is enthusiastic about one another's accomplishment.  This means NO HATERS!!! We should all be happy about the blessings that God has allowed to happen in the lives of our brothers and sisters.  Pastor Warren then says that love hopes.  He finally says that love perseveres.  To illustrate this point he said that "A brother is in you corner when you're in the corner."  So look at these four attributes of love and see whether or not your views of love hold up. Remember, "We all being many are one body of Christ and members one of another" Romans 12:5, meaning that we need to love our brothers even as we love ourselves as Christ does for us.

God Bless,
Min. JJ White III