Here is what is for Breakfast tomorrow for Junior High and High School Sunday School Classes. Hope to see you there as we continue our study on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Thank you Shari Felich for Breakfast this week. And thank you everyone who helps out every week.

Tonight was the High School Christmas Party. This year the Prins hosted and did a great job. We did a roving white elephant gift exchange while people chatted, played fuss-ball,and  various versions of ping pong. Thank you Jo & Chip for hosting us.

We also played a game with Hawaiian Leis. Everyone received one to start and then every time you heard someone you are talking to say “no” o r “know” they had to give you there lei. You could still play by trying to get them after you lost yours. Many more pictures after the link below. 

Our Great Hostess

Pearce gets off to a head start.

Andria and Joy (just back from Europe)

AnnieLittle Fussball

Electric Ninja Turtle Toothbrush Aaron, Hat and SarahHotz Twin*                *Not actual TwinsJoe then got a pooping reindeer. 

Cam was pumped.

David got a VHS machine, he’ll most likely try and make a grilled cheese sandwich in it.

I think someone is trying to tell Sarah something. 

David and Sam beating Doug.

Emily, Katie, EllenCaleb and Rico

Gross

Zach Hershberger with gross

Ellen gets intense.

Katie

Nathan

Josh

Joy, Zach and Me.

Laura and Hat

Rachel and Beverly playing some Fuss-ball

Hat wins gets her gift.

Laura finally gets the last Basham cookie. They always get eaten before she gets one and this time she managed to get the very last one.

Sophie, Abbey, Regan

Sam the man

Regan picked this bag. 

and got this book inside. Was pretty funny, good job Andria

Emily got these Santa shakers.

Now all Rico needs is a car.

This is a coke can smasher. Sam put his hand in it. 

Rudy gets what he needs to keep wrestling Pearce.

Emily got Santa

Sadie Piper upside down. 

Rachel’s gift was Homer Simpson.  

Andria got a talking stick. Only person holding was allowed to talk. Someone should take this from her.  

Aaron got some cuddly bears. 

This is Rachel, she and her husband Johnny have started helping out with youth. It’s been so nice to have them with us. I have no idea what the gift is.

The champs of the game. Nathan ends up being the overall winner. 

When: Tuesday 6:30 to 9:00 PM (December 19th)

Where: Chip & Jo Prins. 12021 Goddard Ave. Overland Park, KS 66213

What to Bring: Dessert to share and White Elephant Gift (wrap something worthless)

Who: 9th – 12th Grade

What are we doing: We’ll eat snacks and dessert as we do the white elephant gift exchange, hangout and play a Hawaiian Lei game.

Tonight we were able to watch the HCA Musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Students did an amazing job. Here are some photos from the night or you can jump to the whole Flickr Set.

James, Mich and Gentry.

More photos after the link.

Hat came back in town to see the musical and I think she and KB inducted Andria into their Sorority with this picture.

Josh did a great job.

Becks and Mallory with Andria.

Abbie and her Daddy.

Caleb was supurb tonight.

Brother and Sister, That is Rudy Prins if you can’t tell.

Sound  crew was flawless tonight.

And you thought Rudy’s costume was crazy, check out his dad’s.

Recognize that guy in the background? Yep, the President himself. 

Berkley liked the clapping.

Lot’s of line dancing. 

Chocolate fountain! 

Emily looks like maybe she was surprised on this shot. 

Here is link to the Flickr Set of Photos

It appears Sasse is afraid of the ball here, I don’t get volleyball, but I expect there is some reason for this.

These are the questions for High School students to answer this week and bring to Sunday School on Sunday Morning April 17th.

The Blazing Center

Lesson Four: Pursue Your Joy:Isn’t that Hedonism?

DAY 1 — THE BLAZING CENTER

In this session, John Piper argues that it is crucial to fix God’s glory as The Blazing Center of your solar system. Until God’s glory is central in your mind and affections, all the planets in your life will be out of orbit. Therefore, our first task is to be radically God-centered.

The solar system of our soul and our society was made to orbit around the glory of God as its all-controlling sun. And the entire human race has exchanged the glory of God for weightless, substitute satellites that have no gravity and can hold nothing in its proper orbit. Therefore, all the world is disordered and decaying and moving toward destruction.

1. What is wrong, if anything, with this statement about Jesus’ crucifixion: “Oh how valuable I must have been that he died for me”?

2. What is wrong, if anything, with this statement: “Not only should man be God-centered, but God himself is God-centered”?

DAY 2 – DEATH

Death is all around us and we can’t do anything to prevent its reality. Ecclesiastes 8:8  tells us “No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death.”

3. How often do you think about death? What is your attitude toward death?

Thinking about death and eternity helps keep God as the center of our lives by testing whether we are more in love with this world that we are in love with God himself. Does the thought of dying give us more pain at losing what we love on earth that it gives us joy in gaining Christ?

4. How could someone glorify God in their death? In other words, what kind of death brings glory to God?

DAY 3 – PAUL’S THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH

5. Meditate on Philippians 1:18-23.

18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.

Yes, and I will rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
What is Paul’s eager expectation and hope?

6. How does Paul think that this hope will be realized? In other words, what reason or basis does Paul give for this hope?

7. What does it mean for Paul to say, “to die is gain” (see especially v. 23)?

DAY 4 – HEDONISM
8. A dictionary might define hedonism as “a life devoted to pleasure.” Given this definition, is hedonism a bad thing? Why or why not?

DAY 5 – CHRISTIAN HEDONISM
9. What might the term “Christian Hedonism” mean?

10. Interact with this statement: “You shouldn’t live a life devoted to pleasure; you should live a life devoted to God.”