Posts for February 2008
The week before spring break
My posts will be a bit slower this week. I’ve been afflicted with the bug that seems to be going around campus, and I am praying that it will clear out by the time I get on a plane Saturday morning to head to Brussels, Belgium where I’ll be spending a week with 13 others [...]
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Published on Feb 26, 2008 at 3:52 pm.
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Two-Identity Tension
In Dr. Paul Tripp’s final chapel talk today (Feb 20) he asked the question, “What is it that God calls you to in your relationships?”
We looked together at 1 Peter 1:3-9. Working from the bottom up (using “inverted logic”), he showed us that it is possible for Christians to be blinded to their identities (vs [...]
Published on Feb 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm.
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Ore-ific Christians
The big questions of today’s Chapel talk by Dr. Paul Tripp:
What in the world is God doing in my relationships?
How should I respond to it?
Dr. Tripp pointed us to 1 Peter 3, where Peter describes our current situation using three words: grief, suffer, trial. Peter uses an example from Metallurgy to illustrate our Christian life. [...]
Published on Feb 19, 2008 at 4:32 pm.
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The Biggest Problem in Your Relationships . . .
is YOU. That’s what Dr. Paul Tripp shared with us in this morning’s chapel, the first of five talks he is giving as part of our Marriage, Family, and Community Conference. He talked to us about the way sin shrinks our world down to the size of our own life, so that all that becomes [...]
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Published on Feb 18, 2008 at 2:58 pm.
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Chapel Lectures
Our chapel week has been unusual. We haven’t had any preaching this week for one thing. We have had four lectures. While the underlying bedrock of chapel is the exposition of the Word of God, we also enjoy the opportunity hear from various speakers about applying what we learn from the Word to specific issues [...]
Published on Feb 15, 2008 at 3:29 pm.
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Children of God our Father
In Chapel today, our RUF Campus Minister Ron Brown preached from James 1:13-27 on Identity. He challenged us to be true to who we are. He laid the framework from the first eight verses (13-21) of three pregnancies and births. First, that our desire leads to sin in our lives that gives birth to [...]
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Published on Feb 8, 2008 at 3:29 pm.
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Brother Emmanuel
On Monday evening, we’re pleased that Brother Emmanuel Gatera from Rwanda is going to be on campus to talk to students about his work in Rwanda.
Brother Emmanuel was educated in Burundi and Uganda and obtained a Master’s degree in Religious Studies at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. For five years he worked at Uganda Christian [...]
Published on Feb 8, 2008 at 9:50 am.
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One VOICE
Nicole Braddock Bromely, founder of One VOICE, is coming to campus to speak in chapel tomorrow. She will speak in chapel, meet with students over lunch, be available for individual appointment, and have a Girl Talk time in the evening.
Her website describes Nicole and her work:
Nicole speaks from the heart of one who has learned [...]
Published on Feb 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm.
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Day of Prayer: The God of All Comfort
Tomorrow is Covenant’s Day of Prayer for the semester. Our theme is The God of All Comfort, taken from 2 Corinthians 1:3-5: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can [...]
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Published on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:17 pm.
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Give Me Jesus
In looking at Philippians 3:1-11 today in chapel, Chaplain Messner talked about the two streams of piety that are common in Christian circles, including at Covenant. One stream seeks the things that can be gotten through a relationship with Christ, or sees Christ as a means to other ends. The other sees Christ as the [...]
Published on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:07 pm.
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