DaveTrenholm.com

Just for those of you who are familiar with Camp Little Red (or at looking for a great Bible camp in central Alberta), check out the camp’s new blog.

Camp Little Red Blog - The Online Offbeat Inside Out

It just made it’s debut moments ago, so check it out! So far, you’ll find the latest Inside Out Newsletter and a few aerial photos of the camp property, but there’s lots more on the way so stay tuned.

Or just head straight to the main site - www.camplittlered.com for all kinds of info about the camp.

In going through this “Bible Overview” series, I wanted to make a Bible study where the kids did some of the foot work, not just listen to me. So for Noah’s Flood I gave them a really simple task broken into three parts as follows: (I put them into two teams so they could work together.)

Team #1

Read Genesis 6 & 7

Find 3 interesting facts that other may not have noticed before.

List 2 things we can learn from this passage.

Name 1 thing you can do this week to apply that principle.

Share your findings with the rest of the group.

Team #2

Read Genesis 8 - 9:17

Find 3 interesting facts that other may not have noticed before.

List 2 things we can learn from this passage.

Name 1 thing you can do this week to apply that principle.

Share your findings with the rest of the group.

Be prepared for them to be finished in 10 minutes, but also be ready in case they take the next 30 minutes.

This is a good exercise for them to start learning to study the Bible for themselves.

In the very first verse in the Bible we read “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” - Genesis 1:1 emphasis mine

The word ‘created’ here means ‘to form out of nothing’. God didn’t create the heavens and the earth from scratch - He created the ’scratch’ too! (So to speak…) He took a bunch of nothing, a handful or zilch, a truckload of zero, and made the universe and everything in it.

I find it amazing enough that someone can take some wires and silicone and make my computer - but to think that God created everything that anyone has ever seen all from absolutely zero - that just boggles the mind.

So if God can create the entire universe from nothing, can’t He make something wonderful out of my life? Absolutely. God can take my weakness, my failure, my emptiness - all the nothing that I have to offer God - and make it into something completely wonderful that will glorify Him.

Was Peter something great? He was a stinky ol’ fisherman with a big mouth. He even denied that he ever knew Jesus! What a zero he must have felt like! But God took that zero and made him into a great leader in the early church.

Or what about Moses? He was a son of a slave - a murderer running from the law. But look at how God took his pile of nothingness and made him into a hero to millions.

The Bible is full of stories of people who have absolutely nothing to offer God, but when they surrender themselves to God, He uses them in great and powerful ways. So next time you feel useless, worthless, like a big fat zero - great! You’re just the kind of person God’s looking for. Give yourself to Him and let Him turn your nothing into something.