Life at The Pond Chocolate for Life review.

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    This is a pretty decent Life at the Pond episode. This is the official description . "A radio station gives clues to the location of the golden ping pong ball. Each of the creatures set out to find it. But unless they work together, they have no hope." Emphasis mine. 

    This episode starts with Tony and Floyd talking. Floyd is bored, and through some conversation, Tony accidentally convinces Floyd being bored is fun. Fast forwarding a bit, Bill convinces  the creatures to find the golden ping pong ball to win the prize. The prize is a lifetime supply of chocolate, and because they are a team, each animal will get chocolate for a year. 

 Jokes:

   The first clue is that the golden ping-pong ball is wet. Tony goes into the Pond finds a heavy gold rock, and throws it back!! He threw away gold!! The next clue is that it is the Y and there is an joke about that where Bill says "The letter Y?" and Tony says "No, the number Y" and Bill says it could be the YMCA ending with Tony saying "I sit corrected." Also Floyd forgets if they are looking for a Y or a Z.  

    The jokes are good in this episode and keep it lighthearted and funny. What the animals plan to do with the chocolate is also funny. Tony: Hot and Cold chocolate in his pipes. Bill: chocolate furniture. Floyd: a chocolate house you eat rooms on. Methuselah: Dessert, then with prodding a giant chocolate mousse or maybe a moose.  The conflict arises when Methuselah reminds them that they "can't overdo it," because every three years they go without chocolate. Tony says his chocolate would run dry for tree years, and Bill says that would not be good for the pipes. They do work together for one more clue but then they go their separate ways, (For some reason you hear slick the salamander) and the next day they start working alone. (When Floyd is walking away he is thinking of what would happen if the ball hit him in the head, and if it hit him so hard it knocked him out and a doctor saves him and finds the ball.)

The ball is eventually found by doctor Holstein and the animals learn the lesson and there is a song. Bye, time for the salvation message....

    Not so fast. The ball was hidden in a a log covered by a rock. According to the animals the rock is too big for anyone except for animals as strong as Methuselah to move, but Methuselah cannot fit in the log. This means Mr.-- sorry Dr. Blacc -- Dr. Holstein could not have found it without Methuselah moving it before when he tried to get in the rock. The contest was unfair for everyone. Also the fact that Holstein won is funny because he does not even like sweets and was commenting about the "stomach who has to parlay this junk" when talking about Floyds donuts in the last episode (taste left The Pond).

The point of the episode is teamwork.

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 John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. The BEST News For Kids! (And Everyone Else) Have you ever tried to be good? I mean really, really good? How about trying to be perfect for a whole day? I know I have. Sometimes I think I’ve done a pretty good job. Other times I know I’ve messed up. 

    Sometimes I mess up small. But sometimes I mess up really big. The problem is, none of us can be good enough for God’s perfect heaven. The Bible says that the tiniest bad thing – even just a bad thought! – is enough to make everyone in the whole world guilty. That’s you. That’s me! Guilty people have to be punished. The punishment for sin (our badness) is being separated from God forever when we die. In hell we would be far away from His love. That’s bad news! But God didn’t let the story end there. He wanted to make a way to get rid of that horrible punishment so people could be with Him in heaven forever. But how?

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    Sin doesn’t go away on it’s own. Somebody has to pay for it. Who could it be? God knew there was only one choice: His own Son Jesus. Jesus came to earth and did something we could never do: He obeyed perfectly. He never messed up. He never even had a bad thought. But He still took the horrible punishment for sin by dying on the cross. God put all of His anger on Jesus. Jesus didn’t deserve that! Why did He take the punishment for something He didn’t do? He did it so that you and I don’t have to. You mean we don’t have to pay for our own sins? Now that’s GOOD NEWS! 

    Jesus didn’t stay dead. After three days He rose again to show everyone He has the power to give eternal life. If we trust in Him, God has no more punishment for us. Instead He offers us eternal life in heaven. When Jesus takes the sin out of our hearts He puts something else in it’s place: His perfect life. God sees Jesus’ goodness in us instead of our badness. Jesus’ good days cover all of our yucky days.

   
He takes our bad out and puts His good in. Do you still mess up sometimes? Me too. But now we can have something we didn’t have before: forgiveness! Pray and ask God to forgive your sins because of what Jesus did. Instead of being guilty you’ll be forgiven. Now that’s not just good news – that’s the BEST news! Do you know how to look up verses in your Bible? Give these a try to read more about the best news ever. 

    John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Romans 10:9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Accept Christ today by admitting you are a sinner. Believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose again. Choose Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You are now a new Christian!!

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