Half way through the race

Well, I guess it's more than half way, but still... Yesterday, in our little youth group we finished going through the Old Testament in a survey fashion. Our series entitled, "Race to Revelation" is meant to teach the students what the Bible has to offer and say outside of the "safer" books. It's to open their eyes that the God of the Old Testament is still just as infinitely loving as New Testament and that His call to holiness wasn't just meant for the Jews, but it's meant for us today. I love getting to hear what my students have learned as we've spent just over a year going through the Old Testament from books that many of them didn't even know existed before then. This next week we're jumping off into the New Testament with our youth conference and it's bitter sweet saying goodbye to the old, because it really was so cool studying it and then teaching it to the students. It probably took years off of my life, I mean I love Ezekiel but studying for and teaching him in one week was intense. But it really was an awesome challenge and now I can have the confidence in knowing that the students know a lot more about Scripture and about their God then they did before and that truly "All scripture is God breathed".