Young Life Columbus News
AET Almost Every Tuesday, December 4, 2018
"Even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
On the Calendar
- Wednesday, December 5th BMS WyldLife BINGO
- Sunday, December 9th Young Life Christmas Party
- Thursday, December 13th Christmas YoungLives
- Friday, December 14th Chick-fil-a Signing day for SharpTop
Young Life Christmas Party
Sunday, Dec 9, 2018, 06:00 PM
620 Front Avenue, Columbus, GA, USA
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Young Life Christmas Tree
- Check out the Young Life Christmas Tree at the CSU Tree Trail on Broadway. Take a Picture and tag it to the Young Life Instagram page.
Monthly Prayer Time
- We are having prayer time this Thursday 12:00-1:00 p.m. at the Young Life House. You may have gotten information that it was going to be at the Young Life Tree on the CSU Tree Trail, but we have moved it back to the Young Life house. You can email any prayer concerns to LJ.
Advent Devotion December 5th - John Piper
Then in the second part of verse 8, John says, “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” And the specific focus John has in mind when he says “works of the devil” is the sin that the Devil promotes. We see that in the first part of verse 8: “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.” So the works of the Devil that Jesus came to destroy are the works of sin. So two times John tells us that Christmas happened—the Son of God became human—to take away sin, or to destroy the works of the Devil, namely, sin. Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1: 18–20) and “increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2: 52) and was perfectly obedient and sinless in all his life and ministry, all the way to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2: 5–8; Heb. 4: 15)—in order to destroy the works of the Devil—to take away sin. Our sin. Make this personal and love him for it. Take the very personal words of the apostle Paul and make them your own. “The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal. 2: 20). This is how he destroyed the works of the Devil and rescued us from our sin. Don’t leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.