Friday Night Lights

Friday nights are family nights around our house (unless it's date night!) so we watched Night at the Museum. I love movies that you can watch with your kids that allow the imagination to run wild and this is one of those kind of movies. I never really endorse movies or music for others because everybody is different in what they like or think is good for them and or their family so I won't on this one either but I will say it's a fun night!

Really excited about our new series LIVE FREE or DIE HARD! This is the first Equipping Series that we will do for families specifically with teenagers. Part of our strategy to invest in the lives of students and to help parents navigate their way spiritually through the "teen years"  is identifying 7 irreducible minimums that we call checkpoints. These 7 checkpoints are we what we think our must have must know principles that we want our students to walk away with when they graduate out of our ministry and out our our homes!

This first checkpoint is Ultimate Authority and the principle we will be unpacking is this: Maximum freedom is found under God's authority! And the underlining question that we will asking – all of us – is, are we submitting to the authorities God has placed over us. Of course if you are a parent you don't have to have teenagers to know that this is a great question for any child to have to tangle with and answer (even us adults).

We have designed this series with students in mind so we are going to have some fun for sure. Cool  We looked through our files this past week and discovered that we have already had over 50 students come through or doors  which is crazy cool. I hope and pray that one day we will be able to invest and impact hundreds and thousands of students lives right here in the circle of influence that God has placed us in. There are aproximately 20,000 students – 18 and under within a 2 mile radious around the Regal theater. One of the things that I have been asking God and praying about since He placed this burden to be a part of His team to reach the city Buffalo is to capture the heart of kids, students, mom's and dad's with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ – the Gospel, the Good News!

If you have a teenager or you know one or you have any kind of influence into a teenagers life or know somebody that does – you and they need to come this Sunday as we discover together how to live under the authority that God has placed over us!Laughing

Brek Cockrell

Author: Brek Cockrell

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