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On Sunday, June 13, Steve Lutz visited University Bible Fellowship and delivered a sermon titled Made for Mission based on Jeremiah 29:4-14. This passage is a letter that the prophet Jeremiah wrote to the Jewish exiles in Babylon. Instead of telling them to oppose the idolatrous Babylonian culture, he gave them advice that seemed counterintuitive: “Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper” (Jer 29:7).
Steve is a full-time campus minister for CCO at Penn State who specializes in reaching out to students who are culturally distant from Christianity. Steve has been successful in forming relationships with these students and engaging them in Bible study in interesting ways and nontraditional places. He maintains a blogsite called the SENTintel where he posts articles and materials on missional campus ministry. He is also the founder of Commontary, a free online Bible commentary with user-contributed content.
Steve’s message runs about 45 minutes. We have broken up the video into five segments of about nine minutes each. Here is the first segment:
Additional segments continue below.
Tags: Campus Ministry
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) maintained a chapter at Penn State for fifty years (1941-1991), and for much of that time, it was the Christian student fellowship on campus. After nearly two decades of inactivity, IVCF is back. Two full-time staff members — Michelle McCotter and Sara Achenbach — moved to State College in 2009 to restart the chapter. After gathering a core group of interested students, IVCF is an officially recognized student organization once again.
On Sunday, June 13, Michelle McCotter spoke at University Bible Fellowship and gave a brief update about IV at Penn State. After her report, Ruthie — our current Seed President — offered a prayer for Christian unity on campus.
Tags: Campus Ministry
Hey! I’m going to be posting lots of YouTube content on here to keep the blog updated. Great YouTube videos are in abundance and don’t really require much introduction or analysis from me (laziness? haha).
Anyways, here’s Shai Linne’s retelling of the greatest story ever told:
This video ties in with our theme of relationships and sexuality (talking about involvement in sexual activity here) at Seed. As a student, hearing about relationships and sexuality always made me think in the context of people around my age. I would think about relationships in middle school and high school, how people already began sleeping together in high school. There are people from my high school class that have children already. And now in college there is newfound freedom. Everybody lives within walking distance. People can spend the night with each other without having to worry about parents, siblings, whoever. But sexual sin isn’t an issue for just kids. Nor is it an issue for just unmarried adults. It’s a symptom of a disease with which everyone struggles.
Tags: Sexuality
Thanks to Steve Lutz, campus minister of CCO, for pointing out this video. This one really resonates with me.
[I couldn't figure out how to embed it, so clicking on the image will open another window. If your internet connection is not fast, turn off the HD option while viewing.]
Tags: Church Trends
Another YouTube video =D
This one is a message on integrity, given by Tim Conway. Integrity, or lack thereof, is a big issue today. God calls us to have integrity, that a yes means yes and a no means no. That when a person makes a promise, whether it’s a written contract or a simple verbal agreement, that person holds true to it, regardless of any sacrifice required. And when a person is alone with nobody around to see, he/she acts the same way as if the whole world were watching. Why? Because God is always watching.
This video is also a prelude to my book review on Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations by Vishal Mangalwadi. I just have to finish the book first xP.
I thought it’d be nice to start throwing some YouTube videos on here. Everyone loves YouTube right? Although many people use YouTube for just laughs, it is actually a really amazing source of sermons, debates, interviews, and other educational content. It provides one way to hear about Scripture more than once or twice a week.
This video is Paul Washer, one of my favorite preachers, speaking about repentance. Many Christians delve into the Gospel to learn more. They learn that a true Christian repents. He doesn’t just feel sorry for the sins he commits, but turns away from his sins. And so born-again Christians try to repent, only to find that it’s hard, it’s difficult, it even seems impossible. And these born-again Christians become discouraged and may question whether they truly are born-again Christians. This video addresses those Christians.
And Merry Christmas! :]
This skit is hilarious…
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