Coffee-cake? Oh yeah

Hey all!

Everyone is invited to join us this Saturday (June 26th) for a community brunch with some coffee and Panera pastries at the Kurtz' place from 10 to 11am. It's simply a time to kick-back and share life together.
(Trevecca Terrace Apartments, 93 Nance Lane, Apt A12.)

Also, if you'd like feel free to hang around afterward for KaleoImpact at the East Nashville Co-operative Ministry as we help clean up their building and bag bread!

Comfort

In our Life groups we've been spending the past few weeks discussing the Holy Spirit.

The fact is most of us know something about the Spirit, we all seem to have some sort of Spirit-theology...
But what does it mean for us not to simply continue on into the never ending depths of understanding the Spirit and really spend time focusing on what does it mean to live in relationship to the Holy Spirit as He lives within us?

Sure we all know about the Spirit... but do we live like we know what we know?

One of the main characteristics of the Spirit is that He is our Comforter..
And a-lot of us find that, well... comforting... But perhaps the truth is for many of us that we already have quite a bit of comfort in our lives. I mean for real, we live in America. We are the "experts" on what it means to live comfortable lives.

And so for many of us to be at a place that we need a Holy Comforter in and at work in our lives... is just not day to day business.

But what if it was?

What if it was our business as Christians to live day to day lives that danced upon the edges, that walked upon the fringes, to find ourselves in desperate places where we needed the Comforter.. the One who speaks for us when we don't know what to say (when was the last time you were in desperate need for a response?).. the One who guides our daily steps...

Somehow there seems to be a deep connection in our relationship with the God who lives inside of us, and being at a place of desperateness.

Possessing Heaven

"A ruler asked Him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'
'Why do you call Me good?' Jesus asked him. 'No one is good but One--God. You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother.'
'I have kept all these from my youth,' he said.
When Jesus heard this, He told him,'You still lack one thing: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.'
After he heard this, he became extremely sad, because he was very rich."


Who doesn't want to possess a piece of heaven, right? We want to experience the goodness of God... Who doesn't want to "inherit eternal life?" .. To see the kingdom of heaven active and real in the world around them?
So maybe that's just it though. Everyone wants a piece... so many people find themselves committing to a piece.
But the truth of the matter is, the whole is very costly.

It's almost like wanting to be a part of this great pilgrimage, this great journey, and so you set out headed toward Life, only to find yourself giving up a little ways in for the difficulties are too much to bear.

You can't possess the kingdom of God, until the God of the kingdom possesses you.

...and sadly, most people have way too many things that possess them already.

Who/What possesses you? What do you possess?

Can you own everything and yet possess nothing?

Can you own nothing and possess everything?



(passage from Matthew 18:18 - 23)

Holiday This Sunday!

Hey All!

This Sunday, June 6th, we have our first Holiday of June at the Flatrock Cafe! (2624 Nolensville Pike)

Come out at 6:00pm and meet with us at the table as we celebrate what God is doing in our lives, our city, and our world!

See you there!

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