Say: Your group can eat as many Hershey’s Kisses as you want - as long as you don’t use your hands to unwrap them.Īllow time. Give each group a bag of Hershey’s Kisses. Snohomish, Washington Indoor Game 2: Doing the Impossibleįorm groups of four. Then let’s pray for one another and help carry one another’s burdens. Find a partner, then write your partner’s burden on your shoe. Say: A great way to help one another carry our burdens is to pray for one another. What kinds of burdens do kids your age have? How can you help your friends carry their burdens? There are times we’re weak and we need each other to help carry our burdens. Say: The Bible says that we need each other. You get it from knowing God.Say: Let’s try the challenge again for three minutes, but this time you can help one another stay in the box.Īsk: How did helping one another compare to not helping one another? Have you ever experienced a time you needed friends’ support? Tell your group about that time. You don’t get the kind of confidence you need in situations like that from a self-help book.
What would you do if tomorrow you discovered you had inoperable brain cancer? Would you lock yourself up in a prison of fear? Or would you choose faith? Rick claims the promise of Romans 8:28: “We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose” (GNT). He has leaned on his church family for support.He’s learned that if you’re going through a tough time, you need more worship in your life.Now they come back to him and strengthen his faith. For years Rick has written songs based on the promises of God. Rick has seen miracles before, and he knows he’ll see them again. Rick knows God as a personal and close friend and not some distant deity. He mentions six specific resources that have helped him that can help you, too: He gets asked all the time how he has dealt with the fear since the diagnosis. But instead of fear, Rick consistently chooses faith. My friend Rick Muchow had every reason to be afraid when he discovered he had inoperable brain cancer. It’s foolish to even try, because we live on a planet broken by sin. Maybe you’ve been hurt by a church, and you’ve locked God out of your life because of it. Now you never want to try a new career path again. Maybe you took a risk on a new job, and you bombed. Maybe you’ve had your heart broken, and you’re telling yourself you’ll never let anyone get close to you again. It locks you out of all the doors God wants you to go through.
Notice that they locked the doors because they were afraid. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! ‘Peace be with you,’ he said” (John 20:19 NLT).
The Bible describes it like this: “That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. They didn’t know if they could believe the news or not. The disciples hadn’t seen Jesus, but they heard he had risen from the dead. Think about the first Easter evening nearly 2,000 years ago. You can’t experience God’s best for you if you’re living in fear. “That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.