http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu Chapel at Covenant College Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:01:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Covenant Board of Trustees member and Harvest Community Church pastor, Rev. Michael Jones preached in chapel yesterday and provided an encouraging reminder of the trinitarian blessing we have in the gospel. Speaking from Paul's introduction to the letter to the Ephesians, he reminded us that our true identity as Christians is ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/10/09/children-of-the-king/ In the Caudle Room on the first Tuesday of each month, we have a Monthly Missions Meeting, where we hear about what God is doing, and begin thinking about how to engage in that work as well. Last month, students shared about their summer internship experiences (students present had traveled ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/10/03/east-asia-night/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/10/02/faith-factor/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/10/02/fishing-and-following/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/29/whats-missing/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/25/student-led-chapel/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/23/what-are-you-living-for/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/18/river-of-grace/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/12/neal-conference-on-true-spirituality/ 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 ... http://chapel.blogs.covenant.edu/2008/09/10/our-good-shepherd/