STP Blog #4
Another week has passed and so that means another blog post of the events from the past week. So as every other week things have been busy at STP and this week has been no different. There have been a good number of talks that have been very good, work at McDonald’s continues, My team ran the project Theme and Project Social nights, went to Huntington Beach State Park and saw some gators, the World Cup started, and God continues to revel my dependence on the cross of Christ to me. So let’s get started.
This week the team I am on (Team Forever Young) was in charge of the Theme night, prayer emphasis, and project social this week. So Monday night we did a skit I was an MC and over all it went well. For our prayer emphasis we prayed for the country of Bhutan and that the people of that country would be reached with the gospel. We also ran the project social for the week and in the spirit of our team name we decided to play games that we played during recess as kids. So we played games like: kickball, 4 square, and lightning a.k.a. knockout. It was a blast.
For this week’s talks there were three that really stuck out. These three where the theme talk by Matt Reagan on Monday, Paul Poteat’s bible training talk on Friday, and Charlie Brook’s life training talk on Sunday. Mondays talk titled “The Cost of Your Freedom” and it was challenging. In short Reagan went through how truly sick we are and how sin consumes every aspect of our lives. The line that challenged me the most was when reflecting upon our sins we tend to want to laugh at how silly we are in our sin, but Reagan said “don’t laugh at your sin it is not cute or funny but it is sick”. Reagan does not stop there but then points to Christ as our only hope for salvation because he has finished the work. When Christ said on the cross “it is finished” this tells us that our striving to be good enough is not needed anymore and we simply need to plead the cross of Christ for salvation. Thus the Christian life is one of rest in the work of Christ. The other talks this week where about how the whole bible not just the new testament is about Christ (John 5:39-40) and the other was about the importance of the church.
In lighter news from STP, the World Cup started and it has been fun watching games and getting to see the USA tie England (this is a really good thing) on Saturday. Also on Wednesday my room took a girls room out on a group date to Huntington Beach State Park to see the gators and make sand castles on the beach. We saw a huge gator that was at least 8 ft. long maybe bigger (it was awesome).
This week has been really good for me in that the Lord had been really convicting me of sin and thus making me turn to the cross. I have been seeing how truly sick I am and how badly I need a savior. I have been convicted of how I try to work hard and try to impress the guys in my room with my knowledge instead of pointing them to the cross of Christ. I have really been seeing my failure as a room leader and how quickly I forget to gospel in which I say that I believe. Oh how good is the Lord that he would send Christ Jesus to live the life I cannot, die for my sins so that I may have eternal life. I plead the cross and that is it, and with that I will close.
Thank you to all those who are supporting me with prayer and financially, you are a great blessing to me. I ask that you pray for me and the guys in my room, pray for the people I work with, and pray for the country of Bhutan.
HERE is a link to the week two update video if you would like to watch.
Peace & God Bless
Levi Peterson
