08/09/2026
When I was a kid, we moved more than once or twice as my dad would follow the appointments to different churches around North Alabama. Moving schools is hard but it can also be exciting. Beginning a new school year can also be challenging, but it can also be a time of excitement.
I took every move with the idea of a fresh start, a new beginning, a new me. Believe me. That comes loaded with pros and cons. Some moves were harder and left me feeling isolated and distant. To cope, I isolated and became distant. That became my persona.
Other moves were exciting and gave me the opportunity to see myself and others with a sense of newness.
As the school year starts up again, teachers are prepping their classrooms, parents are doing last minutes school shopping, and our students are either super excited or totally bummed. No matter how they may be feeling, there is an opportunity to begin the school year with a new perspective - not what the world says, not what friends say, but with what God says.
That's what I will be discussing tomorrow at 5pm during youth at Duncanville Methodist Church. So, if you have students that could hear some good news about how much our God loves and cares about them, they are welcome to join us. As always, we will have some game time, get into worship and the Word, and eat afterwards.
I always invite parents to come checkout what it's all about. I know how important it is to know what information and influence my five kids are getting. I expect the same from other parents.
Your kids might be asking a similar question. They are invited to hear God’s response!
'And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”'
Judges 6:13
Matt
