I think everybody knows what a youth-church is. This month it is about 'If God exists, then why there is so much misery in the world'. I can't find a good cover to play... maybe somebody here can help my find a song??

Greetz

beyens
(belgium)

Ill help find the song for you...And that is a really good question, to which I am going to answer that question with a question of my own.

Without misery, how can we truly know happiness?

well I like acoustic songs...but an other song is also good. We would use the song as an introduction, so it doesn't have to give an answer to the question. I've been searching for some time and it is not as easy as I thought it would be :s

That's a very good question you ask Richie, maybe we could use it as a kind of answer...but I don't think there's a good answer to the question why there is so much misery. We just want to let young people know that they are not alone in there misery. There will always be someone by there side in these hard times. And that's the message we want to give to those people. But that doesn't have to be mentioned in the song :) I just need something about misery. :)

Yes I agree with all the things you said. But I think it is difficult to tell young people that there misery is caused by the sin of Adam... It is true, everything starts with that. But I think that will not give those people an answer. When we were working on the youth-church, we talked a lot about these things... but how longer we talked about it, the more difficult it came. Because what do you do with earhquakes and that kind of things, these are not caused by the choice of men, but they also bring a lot of misery. But it is true that only God can give you an answer to these questions, and that is what we will try to bring as message and we will end with a message of hope because one day, when He returns there will not be any misery anymore!! But I am only responsible for the music so I let the others do the difficult part :-)

still searching for a song....can't find the one you said tammy :s

I play guitar but our singer writes songs.We already wrote a song, but we also need a cover.

Misery

Shadows are fallin' all over town
Another night and these blues got me down
Oh, misery! I sure could use some company
Since he's been gone I ain't been the same
I carry the weight like an old ball and chain
Guess its all meant to be
For love to cause me misery

Oh misery! Oh misery!
Tell me why does my heart make a fool of me
Seems its my destiny
For love to cause me misery

And, oh! I've been down this road before
With a passion that turns into pain
And each I saw love walk out the door
I swore never get caught again

But ain't it true? It takes what it takes
And sometime we get too smart to leave
One more heartache for me
Another night of misery

Oh! And oh misery! Oh misery!
Tell me why does my heart make a fool of me
Oh misery! Oh misery!
Tell me why, why, why, why, why, why does this
heart make a fool of me
Seems its my destiny
For love to cause misery, oh
Misery
Guess its all meant to be
For love to cause me misery, oh, no, yeah
Misery

hehe all the the things that you all have had to say are really good and that is also a good answer to my question..And that is also true that God will always stand next to us no matter what happens.. But I believe that the reason that we have misery is to help drive us torwards God..if i recall right it is kind of like the 7 Years of Tribulation...God doesnt want us to feel misery or pain but doesnt he have to sometimes to help us realize that if we have him in our heart we will still have misery but he will always stand next to us and give us the strength to get throught it..no matter what happens. If I am wrong in what I say I would love to be corrected because I am still learning about this stuff.

God Bless,

Richie

God never meant for us to be miserable. Why then would He say that He has plans to prosper us and to give us a future with hope (Jeremeiah 29 vs11). Sometimes He does allow things to happen in our lives so that we can learn from them but that's so that He can take us to a higher spiritual place where we can grow. You get muscles by lifting weights right? well that pressure that is exerted on the muscles makes them grow stronger as they resist it. Same with our spirits, we sometimes have to go through things inorder for us to grow stronger in Christ and the more we persevere the more we grow in Spirit and become stronger Christians.

Tammy, u should be a preacher, or missionary, or something

ur welcome. and yes it is a process. lol

does anyone know of any good missionary bible colleges? I have been planning on being a missionary but i have yet so see a school that is close to home or one that really pulls me in

yeah..that and I want to be a lawyer

wow. u r going to be a lot of things rnt u??

yea. and who r u gonna marry?

yea i know that.

I dont know..that is a lot of people that I like or would like to get to know..but I havent prayed on it yet..I just dont know

I gues its because Im still a little young..but I really wanna put thought into it..I really wanna choose the right person

BoogiRoot
by DJ Maj


Lyrics:
So thinking back on it all, it’s like
It’s a beautiful thing, let’s go
Yo they can’t take it away
Form, they can’t take it away
TobyMac they can’t take it away
Maj they can’t take it away
No they can’t take it away
No they can’t take it away

It seems I was oblivious to it
I didn’t see you lurking in the shadows
One would think the close calls woulda gave you away
But I was stuck in two feet shallow
I saw the footprints and then
Naah, it couldn’t have been him
I wasn’t the type of cat to pray
Perhaps I’ll chalk it up as coincidence
And commence to be my on my way
What makes a bad boy leave his stash cold turkey
And make vanity retreat from purple streets
I guess your rep is really opposite ruthless
You even walked the windy city with Mr. West it’s like

Chorus
What we got (to my people all over the world)
They can’t take it away
They can’t take it away
No way, no way
(Repeat 1x)

Some wish to rewind the hands of time
And erase every mistake made
Others wish to discover the true meaning of life
A mystery through out the ages
Some say that you can’t exist, nah
How can it be when the very air we breathe
Is evidence we all have the capacity to believe
Without seeing a thing
What made the Passion such a blast
When so many peers left the theaters on the verge of tears
May be your story’s not all that impossible
It’s the fact you bring healing beyond the hospital and that’s why

So it doesn’t really matter what comes my way
Here to shake up the world that’s why I pray
Spread love and let the Son shine bright all day
They can’t take it away, can’t take it away
And if my heart beat stops pace tonight
I’m waking up and staring God in the face alright
So if you feel me get your hands in outta space so high
They can’t take it away

Yo DJ Maj I got your back on this track for fact
And if it’s me and you or you and me the deck be stack
So tell me why they gotta try and go and do us like that
Don’t they know they can’t take it away
Ain’t no robbing this joy ain’t no stealing this peace
Ain’t no taking our faith as we drop to our knees
They can take it all everything we possess
But they can’t take belief from down deep in our chest I rest
Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
On Earth as it is in heaven

No Maj (what) they can’t take a thing
(Sing your song Mac what)
They can’t take a thing away no
Africa they can’t take it away
India they can’t take it away
Arabia they can’t take it away
Israel they can’t take it away


This is also a great song! By Dj Maj

The song " When the rain comes " by Third Day is a good song that reminds us that God can't take away all our problems in this world, because of the fall, but he is always there to hold us and help us through!

Thanks for helping me to find a song, but the youth-church was last sunday... We played a song of ourself and I think it wasn't that bad :) I could post the lyrics here, but it was a song in 'dutch' , so that would be difficult to read for most of the people here I think :-p

If you want a little impression of it...go and visit the site. (look to "archief")

http://jeugdkerk.yump.be/

There are some pics of previous editions of the youthchurch...I don't take they've taken pics this month.

greetz beyens

yeah offcourse...I always do when I worship God :-) Letting other people worship Him, I don't think there is something I like more than this :-)

Hi everybody,

maybe some of you remember me. Well next month we have to do the youthchurch again. This month it's about 'abortion'. I already have some songs in mind such as 'with arms open wide' from Creed and 'Happy Birthday' from Flipsyde, but that last one is a little bit difficult to perform acoustic. I also found a lot of other songs with google but I want something really touching, if you now what I mean. What song would you guys pick?? What song would bring tears in your eyes??

What a challenge, isn't it? ;-)

(sorry for the mistakes in my english but I'm just a dutch-speaking belgian guitarist :-) )