Here's the scoop. I just made a wikispaces (if you know what that is) for X31. Go check it out. It'll allow me to post the teaching slides from every week on there so you guys can check them out if you want. I'll get deeper with it than that, but that's our starting point. The URL is almost exactly the same as this, just substitute the blogpost for wikispaces: www.exit31hs.wikispaces.com
Go check it out now, let me know what you think.
Next, I'm hoping to start doing more with this as well. I'd like to blog more than once a week on more than just Midweek. I also want to get it to be more discussive and thought-provoking than its current lame state. So start checking back more, or just ask me if it's running full time so you don't have to waste your time checking everyday before I get it going.
See below for my blog on last night...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Midweek — 2/4/09
We started our next series this evening on Ephesians.
You can go here if you want to see the teaching slides for the lesson, now!
There are times when we feel as though we've strayed too far from God. If you have known him and fallen away, or even if you have never had a relationship with him, you may feel as though you are too far for him to accept you first or to take you back. Mike shared an analogy for this with us from a story in a book by Max Lucado. In a desperate attempt to find her runaway daughter, a mother posts pictures of herself with a note on the back all over a nearby city. After all hope seems lost the daughter fatefully sees one of the photos and removing it from the wall, notices the note: "Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn't matter. Please come home." Just as the mother felt, so does God. It reads in Ephesians 1:4 that "God chose you." It's vital for us to remember this. We screwed up. Bad. And we're going to again. And again. And God is going to post his picture all around us, reminding it's ok. He just wants us back.
Paul tells us that God "has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." The greatest blessing of all is the opportunity to know and have a relationship with our heavenly father. We belong to him, and even as we screw up, he still wants us back. As we enter into a relationship with Christ, he redeems and forgives us. He takes us from being guilty and makes us holy, set apart for something special. He lavishes us with grace (even if it seems like he never does). In verse 5 Paul tells us that we were adopted into God's family. We had tons of people on the retreat sharing about how they had few friends or closed themselves off from others. In Christ, we all belong because he welcomes us and includes us. And lastly, we are told in verse 13 that we are sealed with a promise: in Jesus' day that word referred to ownership. Thus, we are owned and protected by God.
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Remember the Hawk Nelson concert is CANCELED. You'll look like an idiot if you show up :)
On 2/26 you can meet us at Spring Mountain lodge for a YG ski night.
Rhythm of the Night is a few months away — stay tuned for details.
Check the new wikispaces out!
You can go here if you want to see the teaching slides for the lesson, now!
There are times when we feel as though we've strayed too far from God. If you have known him and fallen away, or even if you have never had a relationship with him, you may feel as though you are too far for him to accept you first or to take you back. Mike shared an analogy for this with us from a story in a book by Max Lucado. In a desperate attempt to find her runaway daughter, a mother posts pictures of herself with a note on the back all over a nearby city. After all hope seems lost the daughter fatefully sees one of the photos and removing it from the wall, notices the note: "Whatever you have done, whatever you have become, it doesn't matter. Please come home." Just as the mother felt, so does God. It reads in Ephesians 1:4 that "God chose you." It's vital for us to remember this. We screwed up. Bad. And we're going to again. And again. And God is going to post his picture all around us, reminding it's ok. He just wants us back.
Paul tells us that God "has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." The greatest blessing of all is the opportunity to know and have a relationship with our heavenly father. We belong to him, and even as we screw up, he still wants us back. As we enter into a relationship with Christ, he redeems and forgives us. He takes us from being guilty and makes us holy, set apart for something special. He lavishes us with grace (even if it seems like he never does). In verse 5 Paul tells us that we were adopted into God's family. We had tons of people on the retreat sharing about how they had few friends or closed themselves off from others. In Christ, we all belong because he welcomes us and includes us. And lastly, we are told in verse 13 that we are sealed with a promise: in Jesus' day that word referred to ownership. Thus, we are owned and protected by God.
———
Remember the Hawk Nelson concert is CANCELED. You'll look like an idiot if you show up :)
On 2/26 you can meet us at Spring Mountain lodge for a YG ski night.
Rhythm of the Night is a few months away — stay tuned for details.
Check the new wikispaces out!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
HS Midweek — 2/04/2009
Hey guys!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Everything has been pretty hectic around Subzero and I wanted to blog about it but never got around to it. And having X31 canceled last week I didn't write anything.
I'll post about tonight either tomorrow or Friday and try to start posting more often with some discussion questions or my thoughts on some things...
Austin
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Everything has been pretty hectic around Subzero and I wanted to blog about it but never got around to it. And having X31 canceled last week I didn't write anything.
I'll post about tonight either tomorrow or Friday and try to start posting more often with some discussion questions or my thoughts on some things...
Austin
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