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5月30日 Great Praise and Worship CD Downloaded this CD today: Looked Up New Attitude is a conference for Young Adults held every year. They assemble some of the top speakers in the nation for this conference (the audio of the talks are available on their web page). This is some of the music they have played in the worship services at the conference. Check out the samples. I'm listening to Song 11 now, "Hallelujah! All I have is Christ!" 5月22日 New Life in the News: DramaNew
Life in Christ Church and Esther Servais were highlighted in the Free
Lance Star Weekender on May 22, 2008. Check out the article and the
pictures of Matt Oberlin and Emily Brackbill. Quote from article: "While the theater program of the New Life in Christ Church is relatively small, its plays carry a message of Biblical proportions. Its original musical production, "Esther," was based on an Old Testament story of that figure, but conveys guidance for today's challenges. The play shows the impact of even one person's willingness to take an extreme personal risk for a larger good. The protagonist of the play risks execution to issue a plea to the king for the lives of her people. "For me, the message is to be open to where God can use you. This was a young woman who had no position of power, but changed the course of history," said Esther Servais, who directs the church's theater program and teaches drama for students in three age groups. Servais notes the unique impact that live theater can have on its audiences. "There's something about the arts--visual arts, music and acting--that touches our hearts as they convey the different struggles of mankind and the beauty of the human spirit."" 5月20日 From an Expecting Mother and Father ...We are expecting Baby Whitenack #4 this year
or next! Sound vague? It's because our due date is December 30. We are thankful
and excited and the kids are getting excited. Liam has been asking for a brother
for forever. When we reminded him that it could be another little sister, he
just said, "Oh, brother." Anyway, we hope you'll join us in praising God for
this blessing! How Temptation WorksThe devil was once crossing the Libyan desert, and he came upon a spot where a number of small fiends were tormenting a holy hermit. The sainted man easily shook off their evil suggestions. The devil watched their failure and then he stepped forward to give them a lesson. "What you do is too crude... Permit me for one moment." With that he whispered to the holy man, "Your brother has just been made Bishop of Alexandria." A scowl of malignant jealousy at once clouded the serene face of the hermit. "That," said the devil to his imps, "is the sort of thing which I should recommend." Oscar Wilde, at a dinner party from: http://www.imperator.net/_dat/quotes.html#Wildean_devil 5月17日 Audio: Mortgage Lending CrisisI heard this This American Life story today about how our nation entered into the Mortgage Lending Crisis and our current economic downturn. It is a fascinating and sad story about how so many risky loans were made in 2005-07. http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355 My question is: how should the church respond? I wonder how much our own church is affected by the loan decisions. 5月9日 The Chinese ChurchChristianity today has some great articles this week on the church in China:
5月7日 Busyness and DevotionMen can be so busy so as not to “have … leisure to glorify God and save their own souls. It is certain that God gives us time enough
for all that he requires of us in any kind in this world. No duties need to jostle one another, I mean
constantly. Special occasions must be
determined according unto special circumstances. But if anything we take more upon us than we
have time well to perform it in, without robbing God of that which is due to
him and our own souls, that God calls not unto, this he blesses us not in. It is more tolerable that our duties of
holiness and regard to God should entrench upon the duties of our callings and
employments in this world than on the contrary” (John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, 312). |
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