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Psalm 71:1-6
[1] In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! [2] In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! [3] Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 4] Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. [5] For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. [6] Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.

Facebook Makes Us Miserable

Tim Challies wrote a blog recently that discusses how miserable Facebook makes us. Challies was inspired by a study he read in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Challies summarized its findings: [W]e all believe that others have better lives than we do and this makes us feel bad about ourselves. He claims that Facebook is a catalyst for this destructive thought pattern. He writes, We log on to Facebook, look through the photographs and status messages our friends post, and believe that everyone is happier and more successful than we are. Facebook has become a platform for the great comparison game. We want so badly to appear as if we have it all together all the time. But behind the mask of Facebook, we know the truth. Life is messy. This reality is even more difficult to bear when we see how happy everyone else is. Challies sums up our struggle this way: We do not want to be happywe want to be happier. He further adds, What a ridiculous lot we are. What a sad, jealous, envious lot. Challies closes the article with a plea for Gods people to seek true fellowship within the setting of a church body. Facebook cannot compete with the deep satisfaction of sharing life with real, in-the-flesh people. Challies writes, When I mediate my life by Facebook, I am the one who controls it all. But when I live before others, when I live a real life in the real world, well, that is where people see who I really am. And they love me on that basis. In fact, they love me more on that basis. Lets keep it real, church.

For full article http://www.challies.com/christian-living/facebook-makesus-miserable

Church Information
Fred Scragg...Lead Pastor Steve Geier..Administrative Assistant Erik Hagedorn....Music Director Ed & Debbie Fawcett....Caretakers

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1 2 5:30-7:00 PM Boys club & Lamplighters 7:00 PM Youth Group: Circle Games 3 9:30 AM Confirmation & Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship 4 5 6 7 8 9 5:30-7:00 PM Boys club & Lamplighters 7:00:PM Youth Group Rally @ DHEFC 15 16 5:30-7:00 PM Boys club & Lamplighters 6:00 PM Nursery School Movie Night 6:00 PM |-Sr High Winter Weekend--| 22 7:00 PM Youth Group: Zombies Notes: 23

11:00 AM- 1:00PM Busy Hands 4:00 6:00 PM 7:30 PM Youth Group Bible Study @ Hangout Pastor Freds 11 12 13 14 11:00 AM- 1:00PM Busy Hands 4:00 6:00 PM 7:30 PM Youth Group Bible Study @ Hangout Pastor Freds 20 21 11:00 AM- 1:00PM Busy Hands 7:30 PM Bible Study @ Pastor Freds

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Youth Group News

February 1st 7:00-10:00 pm
Circle Games at Church

February 15th - 18th 6:00 pm

A four-day retreat at Tuscarora for High School Students Cost:$170

February 8th 7:00-10:00 pm

Rally at Dix Hills Church

February 22nd 7:00-10:00 pm

Youth Group: Zombies Bring your own Nerf Gun

Youth Group Homework & Hangout Tuesdays 4:00-6:00pm.

Birthdays
2/4 2/10 2/12 2/26 2/27 Milan Sivacek Mona Wick Tasia Calvagna Janelle Poukamissas Bjarne Petersen Morgan McNulty

Anniversaries
2/28 Jeremy & Diane Talleur

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Upcoming Events
Senior High Winter Weekend
February 15-18, 2013 @ 6:00 PM A four-day retreat at Tuscarora Inn & Conference Center for High School Students. (9th-12th grade) Cost $170

Nursery School Movie Night

February 15 @ 6:45 PM Invite your friends and family to join us for a movie night here at the church! Bring a snack & a blanket to sit on while the movie plays.

Eastern Region Young Adult Ski-Trip

March 1-3 2013 We will be traveling to Loon Mountain, New Hampshire. The cost will be $175. ($160 for lodging and $15 for meals) The activity costs are not included. See Fred or Steve for more information.

A Year of Unity: Reading Challenge Jesus + Nothing = Everything By Tullian Tchividjian Books are in the Back of the Sanctuary

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Find Your Place at Bethel

Bethel Lutheran Brethren Church is a place for your entire family. Sunday School classes for all age groups (including adults) Boys Club boys K-6th grade Lamplighters girls K-6th grade Youth Group teens 7th-12th grade Young Adults 18-35 year olds Childrens Church K- 2nd grade (meets during Sunday morning sermon) Leisure Timers luncheons for retirees Busy Hands weekly meeting of women to knit and crochet

Check the calendar on page 2 to find out when your group meets.

For more information about our Nursery School program please contact the church office or send an email to bethelnurseryschool@yahoo.com. Classes available for 2, 3, and 4 year olds.

631-629-5501
You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:15

Bethel Lutheran Brethren Church

Address: 10 Pinetree Road, Huntington Station, NY 11746 Website: www.Bethellb.com Email: BethelLBChurch.LI@Gmail.com Phone: (631) 423-4404 Office Hours: M,T,F 9am-4pm; W 9am-1pm; Th 11am-4pm