We sang an old hymn at church tonite which I had never heard before. On the advice of the assistant minister I came home and looked it up on YouTube and found this great recording I think everyone should hear.
Here are some interesting posts I have been reading on women’s consecration.
Climbing Mt Durham – scaling the arguments for women’s consecration
“Whether or not the Lord attaches an andros to our phileo love, this kind of “heartwork” is crucial to growing in the likeness of Christ. By working to become more like our Lord and Savior, we will be worthy of the full trust of both our earthly husbands (should we get married) and, ultimately, our heavenly Bridegroom.”
This is a quote from an article by Carolyn McCulley called ‘Loving you husband before you get married.’ Its an article that, to be honest, was a bit confronting for me but extremely helpful. Since I’m now willing to admit that I thought it was time to share it with you. I hope it’s helpful for you too.
This weekend was the 2nd year house party. We went to a place called Attunga which was a great site for a weekend away.
Thanks everyone for a great weekend!
I wanted to share some further thoughts that I had flowing from the last session today. For those who weren’t able to be there, Nick M lead us through some group discussions on Organisational Culture – AKA ‘how we do things around here’. Basically we chatted about what kind of year we would like to be, and be known as.
I had a 2 hour drive home to think further about the conversations we had in our group. It was a great discussion but as I was driving the pessimist in me started wondering if anything would actually change.
I was trying to summarise what I would like our year to be like, in a few sentences and was really struggling but I found it helped to think about what I don’t want us to be like.
I DON’T want us to be a year who finds a problem and discusses it and either ends with that, or keeps discussing the issue for the next few years with little resolve to make a difference. I DO want us to be a year that finds a problem, discusses it, prays about it, and CHANGES it.
I assume we have all come to college because we love Jesus and want to change the world for the gospel. There’s no need for us to wait until we finish college to start doing that, because it starts with us. Lets us be seen as group who strives for godliness and together talks, prays and changes things. Let that be not our legacy, but the legacy of the great gospel we believe!
As I type this I’m thinking – how easy it is to say this stuff but how do we do it?? Its always hard to get beyond the ideal and into the practical, but it just takes one person to start – please don’t be afraid to be that person. I think it will take lots of trial and error, perseverance, grace and love. And it will take us encouraging one another.
I hope you were encouraged this weekend that even though we are jars of clay, we are filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered to change the world. I want to spend the next 2 or 3 years talking about things with you, praying about things with you and changing things with you.
As Dave said, it will be great in 30 years if we look at Societas 2009 and see people who still love the gospel, and proclaim Christ! I think it will also be great if we see people who are out in the world talking, praying and changing our churches, work places, families & communities for Jesus sake. So lets start now.
A friend just posted this on her blog. I laughed so hard reading it I felt I must also share it with the world!
Last weekend was the first year weekend away. This is a weekend organised by the Orientation Committee with a view to helping the first years (and especially the non-studying spouses) to start to get to know each other and form some good relationships. My own first year weekend away was overwhelming but very worth while and important for me in terms of getting to know people beyond the point of ‘whats your name again?’. From what I saw everyone seemed to have a good time this year.
Here is an interesting quote from an article by Tim Keller called The Importance of Hell
Hell is therefore a prison in which the doors are first locked from the inside by us and therefore are locked from the outside by God (Luke 16:26.) Every indication is that those doors continue to stay forever barred from the inside. Though every knee and tongue in hell knows that Jesus is Lord (Philippians 2:10-11,) no one can seek or want that Lordship without the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3.This is why we can say that no one goes to hell who does not choose both to go and to stay there. What could be more fair than that?
My exploration of the blogosphere in the last few days have lead me to discover the nasty side of life and the blogging world. I stumbled across some pages of people from the UK who harshly slander people across the world (by name) with very little truth or justification from what I can tell. It saddens me that these men profess faith in God, yet openly criticise anyone who suggests that the bible is God’s authority, in one post comparing a minister in a Sydney church to the taliban and a rabid dog.
I discovered early last year that every student at Moore College is assigned to a committee for the year. There are many different types of committees from music to computers to evangelism (can you believe we need a committee for that!!) and I was delighted when I was put on the orientation committee (amusingly referred to as the OC). There are 3 main things that we do. First is to organise the orientation bbq at the year of the end for the following years incoming students. Second is to organise the 1st year house party which is the weekend after next. Third is that we hang around during 1st year’s Greek weeks (this is the 3 weeks prior to college starting, when no-one else is around and Greek is high on the priority list).
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