Need A Winning Game Plan for Your Life?

Each Sunday, Coach J.T. Curtis speaks at 10:30 am in the Curtis School Cafeteria located at 10125 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, Louisiana 70123.

Coach Curtis has coached high school football for 42 years and he has won more games than any other high school coach of his generation.

Winning takes thought and planning. Winning takes work and discipline. If you are ready for a new winning game plan for your life, Coach Curtis is ready to be your coach.

With God's help, you can win at the game of life -- the only game that matters.

You can start winning in life by taking these first steps:

1. Recognize that God made you, God loves you and he wants you to succeed.
2. Admit you are tired of trying to do life on your own and accept God’s free gift of power. Pray this prayer: "Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.”
3. *Learn the game rules by reading, studying and memorizing God’s instruction manual for life – the Bible.
4. Be part of a team that helps you play your best. Come to Curtis
School every Sunday, find another church or group of believers who are seeking to follow God’s plan, or, start your own team!
5. Start now to drop the bad habits that keep you from being your best. That could mean changing friends, changing what you watch on TV or the Internet, changing the way you drive your car, or, changing the way you treat the people you love the most.

*The book of John in the Bible is a great place to start reading. In it you'll find at John 3:16, "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."

You can learn about John Curtis Christian School at http://JohnCurtis.com

New Year's Resolution: Let God Display His Glory in My Life

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Exodus 13:14 - 14:14, Matthew 23:1

Do you think that you can actually stick to your New Year's resolutions? If you depend upon your own strength, your own intelligence and your own old habits you are like me and you probably won't achieve your difficult goals.

The Bible is full of promises that God will take care of us but today let's look at the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. You might say that their New Year's resolution was to be a free people. After working as slaves for 400 years, they left Egypt and thought they knew the shortest route to their new home. But God told Moses to take them toward the sea. The Israelites whined that they wanted to go the short easy way, not toward the sea.

It is human nature to want to do anything the fastest and easiest way. But sometimes God leads us into the wilderness to teach us something that we would never learn if we take the obvious, simple route. In this case, God told Moses that the winding route would allow God to display His glory to the Pharaoh and his army. God was not kidding. If you read on, you find that by parting the sea, God rescues the Israelites and causes the entire Egyptian army to be wiped out.

Your New Year's resolution could be a big one like to leave the home you have been comfortable in for 400 years and strike out on foot for a new way to live. If it is God's plan for you, God will clear the path. He will wipe out your enemies, give you the discipline to focus and the insight to make the right decisions. If you are a follower of Christ, He'll forgive and forget all of your mistakes, give you a fresh start every day and fill your heart with courage.

In Matthew 23:1-10 Jesus warned his disciples not to worry about a list of dos and don'ts and to simply focus on following Him. Just as Moses lead the Israelites to follow God's plan, Jesus will lead each of us today to follow God's plan for our lives.

Jesus came to remove our guilt and to lighten the burden of life. In following Jesus we find freedom from guilt, fear, and dos and don'ts. Does this mean you should not set goals for the new year? Of course not. As a coach I not only set goals for myself, I demand that my coaches and players set dozens of goals. The good news Jesus brings is that we are not alone. It means that you can ask Jesus to give you the goals and pray that He strengthen you to be all that He wants you to be.

Cling to the promise in Exodus 14:14. It says, "God will fight the battle for you. You need only to be still." Just walk and God will do the rest. God wants to use your life to display His glory.