Oct 10, 2011
Steve Adams took some photos of the dance on Saturday night. Here are a few, after think is slide show and a link to the rest of them.
Lot’s of line dancing. 
Chocolate fountain! 
Emily looks like maybe she was surprised on this shot. 
Here is link to the Flickr Set of Photos
Oct 6, 2011
Tonight we were able to watch at little volleyball. Both HCA and Rachel Sasse were playing at the same time. They played great, here are some photos from the night. Turns out you can take better photos when you are on the same side of the net of the team you are rooting for.
Apr 11, 2011
DAY 1 — THE BLAZING CENTER
In this session, John Piper argues that it is crucial to fix God’s glory as The Blazing Center of your solar system. Until God’s glory is central in your mind and affections, all the planets in your life will be out of orbit. Therefore, our first task is to be radically God-centered.
The solar system of our soul and our society was made to orbit around the glory of God as its all-controlling sun. And the entire human race has exchanged the glory of God for weightless, substitute satellites that have no gravity and can hold nothing in its proper orbit. Therefore, all the world is disordered and decaying and moving toward destruction.
1. What is wrong, if anything, with this statement about Jesus’ crucifixion: “Oh how valuable I must have been that he died for me”?
2. What is wrong, if anything, with this statement: “Not only should man be God-centered, but God himself is God-centered”?
DAY 2 – DEATH
Death is all around us and we can’t do anything to prevent its reality. Ecclesiastes 8:8 tells us “No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death.”
3. How often do you think about death? What is your attitude toward death?
Thinking about death and eternity helps keep God as the center of our lives by testing whether we are more in love with this world that we are in love with God himself. Does the thought of dying give us more pain at losing what we love on earth that it gives us joy in gaining Christ?
4. How could someone glorify God in their death? In other words, what kind of death brings glory to God?
DAY 3 – PAUL’S THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH
5. Meditate on Philippians 1:18-23.
18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
Yes, and I will rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
What is Paul’s eager expectation and hope?
6. How does Paul think that this hope will be realized? In other words, what reason or basis does Paul give for this hope?
7. What does it mean for Paul to say, “to die is gain” (see especially v. 23)?
DAY 4 – HEDONISM
8. A dictionary might define hedonism as “a life devoted to pleasure.” Given this definition, is hedonism a bad thing? Why or why not?
DAY 5 – CHRISTIAN HEDONISM
9. What might the term “Christian Hedonism” mean?
10. Interact with this statement: “You shouldn’t live a life devoted to pleasure; you should live a life devoted to God.”
Dec 17, 2010
Youth Sunday School this quarter is taught by Elder Mike Preston in the South Building. Here are a few pictures from this past Sunday. We have some sort of food every week before we open our Bibles to study. If you are not already part of this I highly encourage you to come to join the study.
Jul 20, 2010
On Wednesday night we had so many M&Ms left over we tried the taste test with the High Students at Summer Gathering. We can now give a definitive answer to the Dwightish question of which is the best kind of M&M?
The winner is…. New Pretzel M&Ms!
Jun 1, 2010
This Summer Dan Guinn will be teaching the High School class through Francis Schaeffer’s book True Spirituality. High School meets on the lower level next to the nursery.
The Junior High is taught by Jake Maguire this summer. They are going through the Summer Curriculum from Great Commision Publications. This quarter is GOD’S GRACE IN YOU – God’s covenant plan and how we fit into it.
