It was a great weekend at the Youth Winter Advance in Spokane.  Thanks, Steve, for inviting me!  It was so much fun to hang out with a whole bunch of young folks.  Some photos below.

The theme of the weekend was “Outreach,” so the focus was on reaching people with the “good news” of God’s Word.  It was a weekend in the Bible. Steve and I opened up on Friday night and he told me later he thinks that the kids will remember my “Snickers Bar” remark.

I hope to have my teadching posted sometime soon.  I am planning on posting it on the “Enriching” site, which of course is free to all subscribers of this blog.

This past weekend I saw some old buddies, and met some new youngsters who are now my buddies too.  It was wonderful to see young people who are concerned about learning more of how to reach out and help others.  These cool kids invested their time and money into a whole weekend!  Right on; you guys rock!

In addition to some adults, there were plenty of young people teaching the Bible.  As I listened to the teachings, I wrote down some one liners that I liked.  Here are a few:

If God has some special for you to do, He will make it very clear to you.

Pray and ask God for wisdom.

If there is some new thing God will show you.

Our life is what is is in our heart.

Love people.

Pray every day.

Outreach is giving light to those in darkness.

Today, Steve and I hung out.  As he took care of some errands, we drove around Spokane on a gorgeous warm day.  Unseasonably warm temps continue – today it was 18 degrees above normal hitting a high of 51.  We took some folks who traveled in from Oklahoma to the airport.  We went to his son’s house to take care of a couple things.  He checked out someone’s water heater, and other errands.

He left a note in his other son’s car, parked at Eastern Washington University.  One of his daughters attends there as well, and he did too.  We  drove by his high school, Lewis and Clark.  He told me that when he was there, attending high school, there were dozens of students who met each morning in the lunch room to pray.

And as we drove around we discussed bringing God’s Word to hungry people.  We talked about how there are some ministers who are so set in their ways that they fail to recognize the excitement that many young people have for the things of God.  We talked about how you cannot force revival; that’s God’s business.  Then we laughed again at my “Snickers Bar” remark.

It was a wonderful day spending time together.  This evening, he and his wife Kathy took me to the movies and we saw, “Blind Side.”  It was really good and so reminded me of what the love of God can do for any person.  Love is so much more powerful than we realize.

Below are some photos.  I’ll post my teaching from the weekend on the “Enriching” site soon, so if you don’t have your free membership; yet, get it today.  Details below.