If you haven’t blogged on any of the previous weeks, make sure you go do that first!
This Saturday our first team takes off for the summer! Our 7th grade team is headed out on Saturday afternoon for an amazing week…please be praying for them as they prepare for a life-changing week.
This week, Zach interviewed Jon Foreman of Switchfoot (Jon’s one of my favorite artists) and told us the stories of Billy Mills and Paul Newman. Tell us about one thing from each person (Jon, Billy & Paul) that stuck out to you or that was interesting to you. Then answer the questions on page 75 here on the blog (and write them down in your book so you can look at them in the future!).
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June 11, 2011 at 7:44 am |
2. yes i would think that he would have done so.
3. it would have beem difrent because he never gave up when lots of others did.
4. he shows u by not controling us saying who does what and who does not do anything.
June 11, 2011 at 9:16 pm |
JON: I liked his interpretation of “over passionate parents” it really got me when he said, Hitler had passion to but it’s still the same thing misdirected passion. But some passion can destroy you from the inside out if it is the wrong kind of passion.
BILLY: What really hit me was the reason he was ignored and hurt in his hometown (not that it felt very homelike to him) was that he didn’t have the same blood and that they completly shut him out even though he didn’t really have any family. What I wonder is if they would have treated him differently if they had known what he would do later on.
PAUL: The thing about Paul Newman is that he didn’t just use his influese for his own purposes but help other people to. There are so many ways to misuse your influese on other people because people look up to you when you do things that alot of people see so in that way I respect Paul Newman.
#5 God has a plan and a story for us to live out. We are supposed to just follow him all out and live FOR him not FROM him.
#6 Well that could be hard to say. I don’t think that that is happening around me but maybe I’m just not looking
#7 So if you ask God he will give it to you, but we are also taught to not always expect for God to say yes. He will do what is best for us no matter what even if it dosn’t seem like that to us
#8 Well I can’t think of anything right now so no I don’t think so.
June 25, 2011 at 5:16 pm |
WOW thats alot
June 15, 2011 at 1:57 pm |
1.Running provided Billy Mills with stronger legs and helped him forget some of the bad things that had happened to him like getting pushed around.Also running helped him think that he fit in.
2.Yes, I think he did find passion with running even if it didn’t come out of necessity.
3.Billy was kind of bullied and was told that he didn’t fit in but he kept moving on with his life and told himself that he fit in and he thought that he could change the world to by himself.Plus Billy didn’t really have a family either.
4.Paul Newman was a role model for every kid he also tried to change the world. Paul Newman also helped little and big kids by being a clown and going to their cities to be a role model.
5.God has a plan for every human to live on.Everone should live it out no matter what happens.
6.Maybe I am and maybe im not im not really sure on this question. I don’t really get it.
7.When you ask God a question your not always going to get a yes. God is allowed to say “yes” or “no” it is Gods answer.
8.Kind of a little bit because I help the world with volenteering for the elderly with their groceries.So I don’t really no that for sure.
June 15, 2011 at 1:58 pm |
And sorry I posted late I was in Columbus.
June 23, 2011 at 12:51 pm |
Alyssa! Where have you been!
June 15, 2011 at 2:55 pm |
GEEZ people where did everybody go???
June 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm |
Where have you been Molly? I haven’t seen you since this Sunday! (he-he)
June 19, 2011 at 2:53 pm |
Jon: I liked that quote from M. L. King, Jr.: “I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”
Billy: I like that he didn’t let his gold medal be the most important thing about him.
Paul: I like that he used his influence in the world t do good.
5. IMHO, Zach wants to misuse this verse a bit. It is not about our passions, which can be for anything, it is for our life in Christ- Christ as the focus of our race, our life. So we are to be single-minded in our race, in our pursuit of Jesus.
6. I think all of us know people that are being held back by others. We encourage them by coming along beside them, befriending them, ignoring the crowds.
7. I am lucky to have a friend, Peg, who tells me the Truth, even when I don’t want to hear it. I know it is the truth, because I can test her words against the Truth of scripture, and they always match up.
8. I think God has developed in me a passion for middle school kids- yes, I’m talking about all you goofy kids! I’ve been playing with kids long enough to see some of the Seeds I have planted turn into mature Fruit, and that tells me there is significance in what I do.
June 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm |
I like your answer to question #8. You are lots of fun!
June 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm |
Catherine, I see things that you do that are successful, and I definitely see God working in you to make those things significant. You are getting good at reaching out to other girls in our small group and making friends with them; you also have a godly spirit. so your answer to #8 should change!
June 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm |
Paula was I right about answering only the questions on page 75? That is what I understood.
June 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm |
1.yes there is ”i’m divin in iam going deep
2.no
3.yes becuase he loved it
4.no
5.they can drive those desitions by makeing you do something you regaret
June 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm |
Paula did your change of appearence change slightly? Or is it just me? Because last time I saw you you were not purple.
July 8, 2011 at 2:53 pm |
ya you were not! u were like green or something!!
June 23, 2011 at 1:00 pm |
I mean: did you change your appearence slightly?