SteveO on Youth Ministry

Our good buddy Steven Staton, who's been steppin it up some here lately in the blogosphere, posted a great blog today on youth ministry called, "Two People Stuck on an Escalator." Check it out...and watch the video. Great analogy Steve.

Governor Huckabee on Creationism

Governor Huckabee in my opinion pretty much hits a homerun on his response to a Creationism question during a Republican debate. Check it out!

Wednesday Night Meeting-8/29

Once again The Foundation will be meeting Wednesday night at 7pm in the Renfro Center basement. You are in for a treat this week as you will hear two different mission trip reports from this summer. Stephanie Kay will be sharing on our New Orleans trip and Justin Witherspoon will share on his trip to Brazil. We will also pick up on our Ephesians study with an in-depth look at Ephesians 1.15-23 and focusing on "Our Resources in Christ."

After the meeting we will head over to Broad River Coffee to hangout and drink some good coffee. See ya'll Wednesday.

Crisis of Faith or Real Faith?

New Information Sheds Light into the Personal Faith Life of Mother Teresa.

Hey Guys,

I have not posted in a long while. I read this article on Mother Teresa and found it encouraging and also sad that we all face times of doubt and loneliness in our walk with God. Like Mother Teresa many of us put on a smile in public and count our tears in private. Like many of the psalms we have our highs and lows, a schizophrenia of emotions in our Christian walk, but we must also realize God is the one walking alongside of us through our journey.

Check out the article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070823/wl_time/motherteresascrisisoffaith;_ylt=AsApQ8Y57LzR7PsOj4BZ9Vqs0NUE

Ephesians Study Notes Ch. 1.1-14

We just had our 1st Wednesday night meeting with a new kind of style and format. It was kind of a mesh between our services, small groups and HangOuts all into one meeting. The teaching tonight was on Ephesians 1. 1-14. For those of yall who were not there, you can get a copy of my teaching notes by clicking here.

Next week we'll be moving onto the rest of Ephesians 1 where we'll take a look at our "Resources in Christ." I'm looking forward to it already!

Foundation Gathering This Wednesday

After a near summer-long "sabbatical," if you will, The Foundation is back this Wednesday night as we will have our first meeting of the new school year. We will be meeting over at the Renfro Center at 7pm with a short worship service and then a trip to Kerry's for some ice cream will follow. The format will be a little different in these meetings, so be sure to come and check it out (don't forget your Bible, because we'll be diggin in). Also try to check the blog (Yea, we know...we've been lazy on here too, but we're working on it) this week as we'll be putting new information up about some changes coming this year in the Foundation. If you have any questions....contact us.

Gospel Riches

I ran across this article the other day from Christianity Today.

The article is about the growth of the "Prosperity Gospel", "Health and Wealth Gospel", "Name it Claim it" or however you want to say it gospel that is spreading rapidly all over Africa. The worst part is that this so called gospel was exported from America to Africa and other countries, once we figured out how to package, market, and sell it.

Also, here is a video excerpt from John Piper talking about the prosperity gospel.

There are many examples of modern attempts to redefine the gospel that bother me, but the “Prosperity gospel” has always been one that gets under my skin. Other attempts, though equally dangerous, usually come from well meaning people that are driven by distorted social agendas, worldviews, etc., instead of being driven by a desire to glorify God and be faithful to the Scriptures.

But the Prosperity gospel is somewhat different. These teachers, preaches, guru’s, prophets or what not, are driven by making lots of money through promising things that even God did not promise us, and exploiting the poor and weak in spirit. The gospel is distorted and used to manipulate people into giving money. I mean who wouldn’t want Jesus if he is going to give us money, health, cars, and other worldly things.

1 Corinthians 1:18-31