InterVarsity update January 27, 2008
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The second semester has just started at ODU. It’s good to be back and meeting with students again after the winter break. I have pretty much figured out my schedule for the semester and am feeling really good about how it’s all balanced out and look forward to seeing how God is going to work through me.
I wanted to share some of what has been going on the past couple of weeks and what is ahead in the near future.
Over winter break I went to InterVarsity’s National Staff Conference in St. Louis. It was a great week. The theme for the week was Rom. 1:16. It was awesome to see and hear what God was doing through other staff workers on their campuses. I also had the opportunity to meet tons of people and have some great conversations with folks. As always it was nice to spend time with the people from my region and hear what is going on in their lives. During the week we had guest speakers who talked each day (went through Romans, an overview of the book), corporate worship, corporate prayer, and break out sessions that were mainly geared towards helping our ministries.
This coming week is going to be pretty full. I have my final intern meeting from Tuesday through Thursday. This meeting with focus on campus strategy and helping us to think about this as we move toward moving to our own campuses and reflecting on this past year. We will also talk a little about possible placements for us this coming year. Then from Friday to Sunday ODU has its chapter retreat at Triple R ranch in Chesapeake. It is looking like we are going to have a about 50 students coming, which is awesome!! We are really excited about this weekend. This will serve as a place for the chapter to grow more as a community and to hear some solid teaching.
If you could be praying for the placement process for us this coming year I would be greatly appreciative. In about a month Tracy and I will find out what campus we are being sent to. Pray for the people who, over the next month, will be making these decisions.
Good Videos (RC Sproul) January 6, 2008
Posted by Jeremy in Thoughts and Theology, Videos.5 comments
Below are three videos that I thought were pretty good and that some of you might enjoy watching. I will post on some other peoples videos from time to time when I get a collection of good ones.
Justification and Imputed Righteousness (RC Sproul)
According to His Choice, Not Our Works (RC Sproul)
Christ The Only Way (RC Sproul)
New Year January 1, 2008
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Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope if you went out last night you had a good time with friends/family. Tracy and I made it over to John and Nicolette Stephens for their party. It was real great to hang out with folks and see their new place after some renovation work. We did not get to stay real late because Joshua needed to get to bed (and so did we). There is not much else I would rather be doing then spending the last night of the year with close friends of mine that have taught me what community can look like. So as I look back over this past year I reflect on the community I have in Newport News and at By Grace Community Church and how grateful I am that the Lord saw it fit to bring us all to CNU many years ago, build his kingdom on its campus through InterVarsity, plant a church in a community that desperately needs Him, and show us what community can be between brothers and sister. What are you reflecting on this day?
I thought I would also leave you with some verses from scripture to meditate on as you reflect on this past year.
Romans 13:11-14
And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Romans 14:7-8
For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
