Sunday, June 20, 2010

Summers Grace

Shneagles! What an awesome weekend... Got some work, chilled with friends, amazing day at church, and the potential for so many good things to happen started today, BUT most importantly, GOD'S GRACE. Check these killer verses out:
He Tore Down the Wall (Eph 2)
 1-6It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.  7-10Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.


Jesus the Great High Priest (Heb 4)
 14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens,[e] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. 16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

The bible says it best, but God's grace has been saving my life on a daily basis, and its so beautiful and absolutely amazing, and I can do nothing to earn it, and can always come back to it no matter how selfish, prideful, angry, sinful I am. We need to know this... like more than anything... need to know his grace, and live in it. I'm still learning it's not about the things I do and don't do, but simply what Jesus has done for me.

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

On other notes:
1) Getting super excited for
  • Street Invaders (A weeklong youth spiritual bootcamp that we're (Lukas, Ad, Ben, Lane) leading worship day and night: first week of July)
  • Nanoose Bay Teen Camp (Unbelievable place where God never ceases to amaze me... blessed to be leading worship there with the guys for the 3rd week of July.
  • Brain training... hard to explain (check this video out... it's long but super interesting... I'm so blessed, a friend (stephen the same dude who payed for me to go to the mens retreat at capernwray) got me hooked up with the clinic he's working at!)LINK:  http://vimeo.com/7599789
  • September!! Going to be onboard with City Youth (@ GT with Evan Allnutt) in a big way and I'm realllly looking forward to it. God's got massive stuff in store that I don't even know of!
So many amazing things happening this summer... it's going to be dope. Jon Brydan is an amazing man!! He's got huge vision for street ministry and the city of Victoria, and I'm so excited for God to work through him and their team in a massive way. God's pursuing our city... watch out if you're not on board, he's got your number!

PS. Go to sunday morning next week at GT, Andy is doing a series called 'forgotten virtues' He spoke about Honor this morning and it was unreal!
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