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John C. Green: The Faith Factor
On Monday and Tuesday of next week as part of our Academic Lecture series, we’re hearing from Dr. John Green, Distiguished Professor of Political Science at University of Akron and senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He recently collaborated on an article summarizing and updating [...]
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Published on Oct 2, 2008 at 2:41 pm.
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Fishing and Following
We looked yesterday in chapel at Jesus’ calling his disciples to follow him and to become fishers of men. We looked at what people are being fished out of: it’s not a calling out of our society, out of our jobs. We live in a world not just tainted by sin, but immersed in sin. [...]
Published on Oct 2, 2008 at 1:52 pm.
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What’s missing?
Our chapel speaker today was Dr. Ken Elzinga, Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. He introduced his lecture with a crowd-pleasing list of ten things he knew about Covenant from talking to current Trinity Fellows and Covenant alums Jenny Fearnow and Wilson Whitaker. I’ll see if I can get that list! He didn’t [...]
Published on Sep 29, 2008 at 3:47 pm.
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Student-led Chapel
Today, we had a student-led chapel, as we do most every Thursday. Not only did students lead in the music for the chapel, but today a student also shared a word. Sam Belz was our speaker today, and he had prepared six scripture passages which he recited from memory to give a sense of the [...]
Published on Sep 25, 2008 at 10:54 am.
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What are you living for?
After a great Neal Conference week with John Smed and Fernando Ortega, we have a less scheduled week for chapel. Our Day of Prayer is tomorrow, and we’re looking forward to watching the sun rise together at Rock City and joining together for prayer on campus. Yesterday, though, Chaplain Messner returned us to our studies [...]
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Published on Sep 23, 2008 at 3:31 pm.
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River of Grace
We’re a little over halfway through our annual Neal Conference, and it’s been a wonderful conference that has come at just the right time for our campus. We’ve dealt with significant loss, losing student Ben Entwistle over the summer and losing long-time staff member Rod Jackson this past weekend.
Having Fernando Ortega here to lead us [...]
Published on Sep 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm.
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Neal Conference on True Spirituality
Next week, we begin Covenant’s annual Neal Conference on True Spirituality, featuring Fernando Ortega in concert and Rev. John Smed as our guest speaker. Rev. Smed will be speaking on “How God Shapes a Kingdom Conscience.”
John Smed is the pastor at Grace Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia. The church’s vision is “to see a city, [...]
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Published on Sep 12, 2008 at 2:50 pm.
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Our Good Shepherd
This morning, Ron Brown, the RUF campus pastor here at Covenant spoke in Chapel. It’s been a great privilege for me to work right next door to Ron in Carter Hall and to talk regularly about our Covenant community, issues facing our students, ministering effectively. I have appreciated his insights on small groups, his delight [...]
Published on Sep 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm.
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Get Ready for Mark!
Yesterday, Chaplain Messner introduced our year-long study of Mark’s gospel, the book that he’ll preach through most Mondays this year. He introduced Mark as a book of action, noting Mark’s use of the word immediately and his fast-paced writing style. He also noted Mark as a book of mystery and suspense, particularly regarding the identity [...]
Published on Sep 9, 2008 at 11:43 am.
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30 Days of Prayer
Although our campus wide Day of Prayer is not for another three weeks, it may be a good exercise to commit to prayer as we enter into the Ramadan season. This is the annual 30 day fasting period for our Muslim neighbors, and I’ve found it valuable over the past few years to remember this [...]
Published on Sep 1, 2008 at 7:23 am.
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