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I hope the first few weeks of your school year has been going alright!
We understand that being faithful to God and Christian Living is not as easy as school gets busy and we spend a ton of time with our friends. We hope that you will follow along with us going through this devotional packet. Getting a dose of God’s word and spending time to pray over the day can really make a huge difference. It really can!
Think about the Day, Pray, Read the Passage
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A new DT format for a new school year; we’re kicking off InterHigh Fall Devotions with 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon! After a whole summer of memorizing verses, we have a lot of God’s word in our heart. But what does it all mean? Sometimes just knowing the verses isn’t enough, we have to know what they mean for them to be, well, meaningful. So to help us understand what each of our new memory verses means we’re going to be doing some inductive-style DT reflection questions. Now inductive is …

Let’s continue to work hard to be men and women approved, trying to please God, as we continue doing DT’s with 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy. We’ve memorized 26 days’ verses so far! As our InterHigh challenge continues, don’t forget what to do:
1) Read the Bible passage.
2) Write out the memory verse.
3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.
4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)
You can find our devotions booklet …

We’re continuing our summer devotions with daily readings in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians! Let’s continue to keep the word of God in our hearts through verse memory. Don’t forget to:
1) Read the Bible passage.
2) Write out the memory verse.
3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.
4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)
You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double …

This summer we will be doing devotions through the book of Ephesians, with a challenge! As we read through the word of God each day, we wanted to challenge ourselves to hide God’s word in our hearts. So we’re introducing a new style of devotions:
1) Read the Bible passage.
2) Write out the memory verse.
3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.
4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)
You can find our …

Download the Passion Week DT.
Passion Week (aka “Holy Week”) is from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday). It’s called “Passion Week” because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross to pay for our sins. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27, Mark chapters 11-15, Luke chapters 19-23, and John chapters 12-19.
We are covering the Passion account in Luke with the text each day corresponding to what happened each day as Jesus was accused and crucified. We encourage you to take extended time this …

How to do your devotions:

Read the text two times.
Write your favorite verse.
Write one aspect of what God is like.
Write one aspect of how text describes you.
What lesson can I learn from this text?
Write out a prayer in response to the text.

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By Emily Ma, InterHigh Mentor, Sophomore @ UC Berkeley
How does Jesus define friendship, and what is the difference between a “friend” and a “servant”? Which do I relate to more?
A servant does not know what His master is doing and must blindly obey. God does not want us as minions to do His bidding – He has revealed a lot to us if we would but pause to spend time with Him, as we do with any other friend, in prayer and reading His Word, His precious journal for us. …

By Alex Cho, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
John 14:5-7

“Jesus’ reply is the ultimate foundation for a satisfactory philosophy of life. First, it is personal. He did not claim merely to know the way, the truth, and the life as a formula he could impart to the ignorant; but he actually claimed to be the answer to human problems. Jesus’ solution to perplexity is not a recipe; it is a relationship with him[…] He is the truth because he has the perfect power of making life one coherent experience irrespective …

By Ellen Yu, InterHigh Mentor, Senior @ UC Berkeley
John 13:6-9
What may have been going on in Peter’s mind as he refused Jesus’ offer to wash his feet?
Peter was probably overcome with a mix of emotions—confused that the Son of God would want to perform such a menial task by washing his feet, embarrassed that the Son of God was kneeling down at his feet, and maybe even angered that Jesus, the King of kings, would be humiliated in this way. The root of all of Peter’s mixed responses, though, was …

By Ellen Chiu, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
What is the fundamental difference between Mary and Judas as revealed by his objection to what she did?
Mary had her life savings in the form of this expensive perfume poured over Jesus’ feet. This act of utmost humility and reverence for Jesus was objected by Judas, however. The difference between Mary and Judas is that Mary was God-centered while Judas was self-centered. Her bottle of expensive perfume equaled to that of a year’s worth salary, and through Judas’ eyes, it was a …

By Michael Chen, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
What were some ways in which God has redeemed painful experiences in my life “for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it?”  Are there any hopeless situations in my life through which Jesus may be glorified?
When I think about how Mary & Martha must have felt not being able to do anything about their brothers death as they watched him suffer, I’m reminded of myself standing by my father’s hospital bed fifteen years ago as he was dying …

By David Park, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
Just as sheep “follow [the shepherd] because they know his voice,” have I learned to recognize Jesus’ voice?
In the past couple of years, a major part of growing in my relationship with Jesus has been learning to recognize his voice and then following it. It’s been learning to recognize whether my thoughts, desires, or actions are in line with what Jesus desires from my life. It’s been tough, because it’s never easy when you realize the way you’ve been living and the …

InterHigh Devotions Schedule for January 2010!

By Azusa Hanashima, InterHigh Staff
What about the cross (where Jesus was “lifted up”) causes people to know that Jesus indeed is the one that he claimed to be?  Is it possible to know who Jesus is apart from the cross?  How often do I meditate on Jesus and his death on the cross?
The cross causes people to know that Jesus is indeed the one that he claimed to be, because through it he accomplished what he claimed he came to do, to forgive our sins and bring restoration and …

By Wynn Susilo, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
What did Apostle Paul consider in making his future plans? What are some experiences of God at work in my life that I need to consider in making my plans?
Apostle Paul made the work that the Lord gave him as the most important factor in making his future plans. Paul left no room in his plans for his own personal agendas, prioritizing first and foremost the work to which God has called him to. From the way he wrote to the Corinthian …

1 Corinthians 16:5-9

What are the factors that I consider most important in my decision-making process for my future plans?
What did Apostle Paul consider in making his future plans?  What are some experiences of God at work in my life that I need to consider in making my plans?
Even though Apostle Paul says many are opposed to him, he states that a great door for effective work has opened up to him as well.  What is the relationship between the work of the Gospel being carried on effectively and opposition?

By Tabby Lee, InterHigh Student, 10th grade
What is the test of genuine faith based on these verses?
Based on the verses, the test of genuine faith is if one perseveres in the Christian faith. Christian life is not an easy one; there are many difficulties one must face. For example, at school it is very difficult for many Christian teenagers to live out their faith. They don’t want to be known as a Christian because being a Christian means you are weird. They don’t want people to see them as a …

1 Corinthians 15:1-2
“If you are not persevering in the Christian faith, this is evidence that you did not have saving faith in the first place.”
“The faith which collapses is the faith which has not thought things out and thought them through. For so many of us faith is a superficial thing. We tend to accept things because we are told them and to possess them merely at secondhand. If we undergo the agony of thought there may be much that we must discard, but what is left is really ours …

By Ken Yun, InterHigh Mentor, Junior @ UC Berkeley
Give examples of the mind being “unfruitful” in the midst of spiritual activities. What is the danger of this? Is there evidence of this kind of mindless involvement in spiritual activities in my life?
As Apostle Paul noticed that the Corinthians sought to speak tongues in order to sound spiritual, he became concerned that Christians in the Corinthian church were being mindless and therefore unfruitful in their spiritual activities. Christian minds can be unfruitful in the midst of spiritual activities when one is …