March 25 Rock Update

Summer is coming...

Good news....school gets out in 8 weeks.  Well that may be not so good news to some.  I like it and look forward to summer.  I like the freedom of late night runs to dairy queen (fingers crossed it is open by then,)  love the flexibility of going out to eat after The Rock on Wednesdays with students or simply opening up the house and letting them flood the backyard.  I love the sounds of the evenings and the realization the rush of homework, projects, and activities have slowed down a bit.  And then there's lining up babysitters, the danger of sinking back to childhood when summer meant doing nothing which is not the same for an adult during summer because you still have to work.  The late night runs bite you as you awaken to actually go to work. Rather than cold nights expecting to wake up to white yards you face sleepless nights fearing severe weather.  So there are definitely two sides to every coin.  

But when I think of summer and all of the above I come to one last reason to look forward to summer;  REACH SUMMER CAMP.  June 22-26 will be a week that will be far from the negative side of summer.  This week is what we point to each year.  It's a year we sum up all we've looked at and point to all we're heading into.  It's a week of fun, worship, teaching, singing, playing, eating, living.  A week where the central focus is the Lord, His glory and fame.

We also have an exciting week in Atlanta to look forward to as we partner with Whirlwind Mission and Tim Cummins.  The opportunity here is to travel around the world while only driving an hour to Atlanta.  This will take place July 13-27 with a quick stop by 6 flags on the way home.  We hope to have more information about this later but for now you have the dates and the expected cost is about $100.   We do have signups for both events and would love for you to begin signing up so we can prepare!

Last Night

We had a review of Titus last night and attempted to revisit the 3 major themes of this short letter from Paul.  There are so many similarities to our lives today, particularly the life of a teenager faced with living a life that honors God while living in a place that is far from Him.

We did our best to help students see this and the beauty of walking through a book is that we don't have to generate some cool theme.  Each book has it's theme and each book points to this big picture of redemption.  Our 3 themes from last night bring hope and purpose.   I've attached the sermon and outline for you to look through.  Please share this with those who may not be on the list and also be praying for our students to deal with what we talked through.

Be encouraged yourself in the love and provisions of God.  Be reminded that we are not owed anything, including the very breath we just inhaled.  God in His grace has given this to us and we in turn should praise Him for that.  With our lives, our actions, our words we seek to glorify Him.  At least that would be the seemingly obvious thing to do.  Unfortunately it is not the case and so we continually look to Him, seek Him, follow Him as we battle self each day.   Be encouraged, you are loved!  Now go and walk in and with Him.

Have a great day and weekend.

Shine Bright!

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