Posted by Phil Jean on Mar 18, 2010 in
Bible,
Christianity,
Life I want to challenge you all to read Jeremiah Chapters 7 and 8 and once your done i want you to post as a comment onto this blog your thoughts on this portion of Scripture. Warning: this is not an eazy portion to swallolw but i really want to hear what you all have to say. How it makes you feel? Why do you think God felt this way? Can you relate to this Scripture? Can you relate to both God and the people?
I just want to hear what you all have to say 
i’ll be waiting for answers!
Tags: Anger, Bible, Forgiveness, God, Jeremiah, Redemption, Scripture, Sin, Wrath
Posted by Phil Jean on Feb 12, 2009 in
Donevan High School Today was our second part of “When bad Things Happen” we talked out of Exodus 34:5-7. i talked a bit about how God is a just God.
Exodus 34:5-7 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
5 The LORD came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed [His] name Yahweh. 6 Then the LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed:
Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth, 7 maintaining faithful love to a thousand [generations], forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave [the guilty] unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
I talked about How He died for us even while we were still sinning (Romans 5:8). The DVD story was about a girl that called her self Christian but ended up doing drugs with some friends and doing stuff to look cool in front of people. one day, her best friend that called her self a Christian but actually lived it, got in a car accident and died shortly after. Gabby, the girl telling the story, shared about how she got angry with God that her friend that was doing everything right was the one that died while SHE was doing everything wrong and nothing happened to her. She started to get convicted about how SHE was the one that deserved to be punished not her friend.
I used this story to bring the whole thing back to the fact that Jesus was the one with the clean hands yet it was His hands that were pierced not ours. He was the one that got beaten almost to death, not us. He was the one that was stripped down naked, not us. And He was the one that got crucified on the cross…. not us. He took our place and died the death that WE deserve. When i shared Exo 34:5-7, i shared about how even though God doesn’t let the wicked go without consequences, He is faithful to forgive them (and us) of our sins if we truly repent.
It was just an awesome moment all together. Needless to say God move mightly as 3 kids got saved and 3 others rededicated their lives to a serious relationship with Jesus! Please if you are reading this, keep praying for our Highschools, they need a move of God. The reality is that God is willing and ready but He needs servants to help plow the way! God Bless!
Tags: Donevan, Drugs, God, High School
Posted by Phil Jean on Feb 5, 2009 in
Donevan High School Today we had our first Impact at Donevan High school since the exams last week. We started the second session of a series called I AM Getting To Know God. Today’s session was about “When Bad Things Happen”. It consisted of someone sharing a testimony about how her mom was diagnosed with cancer and quickly got ill and soon after died. The young girl sharing the story is talking about how she got angry with God but rather then to run away with the anger, she ran to God with it! we had really good conversations after. one of the questions in the lesson was “If God is such a loving God then why do you think there is suffering?” It was really cool to hear what everyone thought. I challenged my gorup by asking them to ponder on this statement, “Without suffering, there is no compassion.” I told them it was like there would be no need for food if there was no hunger. The fact is that this is the land of the dying. We are not meant to stay here but to move on to Heaven where there IS no pain, sickness and death. We have to make sure that our hope is in whats to come and not in earthly things such as relationships, wealth etc…
Tags: Donevan, God, High, Preaching, School, Sickness, Youth
Posted by Phil Jean on Jan 30, 2009 in
Bible,
Christianity,
Sermons I find it amazing that God is like He is! I mean, like I previously mentioned, I just started a new series on the power of your words and it just so happens that God makes me practice what I preach. For the last 3 days now (starting on Tuesday) I’ve been having this pain in my bowels. I went to the doctors and got a bunch of tests done and they can’t give me a straight answer to what it is. Now the Doctor has told me that he thinks it’s a stomach flu which WOULD affect my bowels. The reality is that God started to speak to me. He asked me, in a reminding tone, what was I starting to preach about and so He told me, well start to act what you preach! Sure enough, all I needed to do was to speak over it and I’m doing a lot better now!
Tags: Faith, God, Prayer, Preaching, Proverbs, Sermon, Sickness, words, Youth