OFF TO HOUSTON!

We are leaving the church in about 20 minutes to head to Houston for the Fine Arts Festinval! Be sure to keep us in your prayers. Randall Morris, Charles Russell, Naomi Hernandez, Kristy Carlile, Katy Smith, Samantha Gore, & Sydnee Nelson will be participating this weekend. I won't have internet access while we're gone on this trip, so there will not be anymore updates till Monday. Be sure to be this Sunday night for our Fine Arts Celebration service this Sunday night @ 6pm.

COOKOUT CLEAN UP

Just wanted to let all of you know, we found a few things left over at our house from the cookout. A blue X-Box controller still in the box, pair of sunglasses, and purple easter bunny, oh yeah... and a $100 bill. So if any of these are yours let me know, its in my office!

We now have Reality bracelets! Help us support Reality Student Ministries. These will be available in the Cafe for only $3.

Monday's Devotion

A NEW WEEK, A NEW CHANCE
I don't know about you, but I love Mondays! I posted a little bit about this on my personal blog this morning. Mondays to me are kind of like getting a new start on life! Kinda like when you are playing a video game and you don't do so good, all you have to do is hit the reset button and you get to start all over again! Thats how Mondays are to me. No matter what kind of week you had last week, if you didn't do the things you should have or were suppose to; today is a new day and a new week! You get a new chance! So if you had a bad week maybe made some decisions to do stuff that weren't the best. Ask God to forgive you and move on in the right direction. Don't get down on yourself for messing up, but just say God I messed up, please forgive me and then forget about your past sins. Follow after God with all your heart! When God forgives us of our sins, he doesn't hold on to our past sins and say hey! remember what you did 6 months and 16 days ago, I still remember it!!! So if God isn't going to hold our past sins against us, then why should we? In Philippians 3:13-14 Paul says, "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." I'm sure that Paul was reminded of his old days a lot! In case you didn't know, before Paul was saved his job was to find and kill Christians. Then he met Jesus and his life and was changed drastically. So no matter what you've been through and no matter what you have done. Its never too later! So don't forget today is Monday and if it is Tuesday or Wednesday when you read this just pretend it's Monday and start all over again!
We love you & believe in you!

Tuesday's Scriptures

Just wanted to share a few scriptues with you this morning. These are some of the ones that were at the station with the Bibles that we did on Sunday night. Sunday night was great in case you missed it. I wish that all of you could have been there. Hope you all have a great day & we'll see you tonight for Discipleship. Also... if you are planning on coming to the cookout this Sunday please let me know ASAP so we know how many to prepare for. Don't forget keep Him first!

Worship
Psalms 95:6 Psalms 99:5 Matthew 4:9-10 John 4:23-24 Hebrews 12:28

Holiness
1 Corinthians 1:30 Romans 6:22 2 Corinthians 7:1 Ephesians 4:24 Luke 1:35 & 49 John 6:69 1 Chronicles 16:29

Encouragement/Purpose
Exodus 9:16 Acts 20:24 Philippians 1:6 Romans 8:28-39 Hebrews 12:1-2 1 Peter 1:13 Acts 26:16-18

Monday's Devotion

I just got finished having my devotion time and just wanted to share a little bit of it with you. Read Romans 6:1-14. Take your time and read it slowly. Sometimes it can be hard to understand (it's deep, makes you think) you may have to do like me and reread it 4 or 5 times. Anyway... in these few verses it talks about sin. Sin is such a powerful force in our life. It's something that we have to fight with every single day of our life. Even if you have been a Christian your whole life or just a few days, you still struggle with sin. Sin wants to take control of our life, but we must master it and take control of it! When you commit your life to Christ and want to live for him, we must reject sin. Rejecting sin is part of our commitment to God. God didn't give us these rules just to make our life miserable, he did it because he loves us and knows whats best for us. Jesus gave up his life for us so that we could be forgiven of our sins, not so that we could keep living in it. As you read in the later part of these verses, we see that Jesus overcame sin by dying on the cross and living a sinless life. As believers in Jesus, we have also been given that same power through the Holy Spirit to overcome sin!!! We must keep up the good fight and not give up doing good things. Verse 11 reminds us to count ourselves dead to sin and not to let sin reign in our body. The enemy wants us to allow sin in our life so that he could have control of us. The enemy comes to steal, kill, & destroy. We must stand strong and resist sin! Even at times when it is easier to give into temptation than to fight it, stand strong! Pray and ask God for his help and HE WILL! If we can help you out in any way just let us know, we are here for YOU! Hope this helps you out in some way. Have a great day!
PC

COOKOUT AT OUR HOUSE THIS SUNDAY!

Don't forget... this Sunday from 5 to 8pm Reality will be having a cookout at Pastor Chris & Staci's house. Please call or email to let us know if you are coming & if you need directions. Here are a few pics from the last two cookouts. Hope you all have a great week! We love you and believe in you!
PC

Marshall, Felix, & Sarah trying to keep the water in their mouth with Alka-Seltzer! Sorry, we didn't get the picture of Felix throwing up in the next game.

Chef Gearald grilling the burgers.

Trisha chowing down on Patches food even though we had hamburgers in the backyard!

Kristy, Carrie, Audrey, & Jordan hanging out in the guest room at our house.

Raul & Jasmine trying to get the red stuff down without their hands!

AJ & Nola trying to catch up to!

UPDATE COMING TOMORROW!!!

Sorry it's been a week since we've updated this. I was in Houston all last week and the hotel didn't have internet access. Well they did, but I didn't want to pay $12 for 24 hours of the internet. We'll be updating this tomorrow so be sure to check it out. Don't forget we want your ideas for this website. Just let us know. Also Zikomo will be here tonight, so be sure not to miss out!
PC

PC & Katy at this year's track meet at Seguin High School.

Bowling just a few more days away!

Don't forget we will be going this Friday, 4/9! The cost is only $10 and that includes your cool bowling shoes & 2 hrs. Of unlimited bowling. Invite your friends to come with you, but please remember to contact PC to let him know you are coming and how many people are coming with you. You must reserve your spot NO later than Thursday! We're meeting at the church at 7:30pm and getting back at 11:30pm. Hope to see you then! Here are a few pics from the last time we went bowling!
PC

Kristy striking her bowling pose for us!

Naomi & Katy smiling for the camera!

PC & Leslie (not sure what we were doing)

Kristy, Katy, Naomi, and Staci

Sarah must have just got a strike.

Having fun Derek?

I'M COMING TO SEGUIN!!!

Next Sunday on April 17th @ 6pm, we will be having a VERY VERY special guest with us at Reality! None other than Mr. Zikomo Jones or you may just know him as "Z". Be sure to invite all of your friends out for a great night.
PC