May 6th 2015 Rock Update

Forgiveness

We have been going through a study of the book Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper.  It's a challenging book that confronts many issues we face as we seek to live to glorify God in all things.

Last night we looked at a major "hang up" or potential roadblock to this happening in our lives.  If we are to glorify God one pursuit is to make others glad in Him also.  But is that always the case?  Do we actually seek to do this with an unforgiving heart or do we harbor these feelings and only wish harm on folks?  Don't they deserve to be punished?  Why should I extend grace and mercy?   Some big questions we need to answer as we seek to live and act in a way that makes much of Jesus.

Attached are the notes from last night. Rather than having long small group times at the end we changed it up a bit.  If you walk through the sermon notes you'll notice some questions we ask along the way.

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Reach Camp & More

1. Reach Camp is close.  We need everyone signed up via deposit.  This helps us not to be so scrambled in the weeks prior to camp.  So please help us by getting signed up and paid.  Thanks to those who have signed up and paid their deposits, this helps greatly!
2. Graduation Recognition - We are honoring our graduates May 17th and need your information.  These forms are located at the top right of our website, therocksm.org. 
3. Youth Choir - The Youth Choir will be singing in the May 17th morning service.  Please make sure to come and support.  If your student wants to jump on board a little late we have one more practice this coming Wednesday.  Sure would be nice to have all the school chorus people there to help us out and use that classically trained voice to lift high the name of Jesus.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and a great Mother's Day