Today has been such a long and epic day! My heart is full. So much food for the soul that I almost broke twitter trying to share it all! Bed is wooing me to slumber, so here are some brief highlights of day two. [Actually, bed won the wooing competition, this post is now being finished on Wednesday morning!]
Bryan Chapell kicked off the morning with “I AM THE SON OF GOD” which was on John 10:30 where Jesus says he and the Father are one. Here are my two favourite tweets:
Jesus knows how to save a life Jesus knows how to keep a life Bryan Chapell #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 4, 2014
“He is the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep. HE. WILL. NOT. LET. YOU. GO.” #BryanChapell #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 4, 2014
My elective stream today was presented by Paul Tripp. It feels like he spent 3 hours slapping me in the face and cutting me to the heart. Much needed! There are too many tweets to share here, but here’s a selection of the many…
“Your heart is under attack every time you prepare to preach, and every time you stand up to preach in the pulpit.” @PaulTripp #Oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
Friday Prep? “You don’t have enough time to get to where you need to be exegetically, personally, communicatively” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“The big agenda of preaching is that people will be captured by the awe of God” @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Your job is to get people blown away by the stunning glory of God so that no other glories will be able to compete!” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Your weakness is not in the way of pastoral calling, ‘cos God’s grace is sufficient, it’s made perfect in weakness.” @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Successful preaching is the coming together of knowing God and knowing people” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Theological knowledge is never the end point, it is to lead to the end point of worship” @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“You’re not a bigger,better version of your self. The grace of God makes us something radically different than before” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Not enough to have an INFORMATION agenda for your preaching… buy into God’s TRANSFORMATION agenda for preaching” @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“If God doesn’t rule your mundane, then God doesn’t rule you. Because that’s where you live” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
Paul Tripp was also preaching the main session in the evening on “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD” from John 9. Here are the main points of his talk:
ACT 1 // THE TRAGEDY OF THE FALL (John 9:1) Eyes were meant to see. Something is dramatically wrong here. @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
ACT 2 // THE MISERABLE THEOLOGY OF THE DISCIPLES (John 9:2). Their response should shock us. @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
ACT 3 // THE GLORY AGENDA OF THE REDEEMER (John 9:3) This event is to display Jesus’ glory. @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“Sin blinds me to the ultimate glory and it addicts me to the glory of creation” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
“All we need is the testimony of the cross to know that God is good at making the bad things good things” @PaulTripp #oxygen14
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
ACT 4 // CHRIST’S SUMMARY SELF DECLARATION (Acts 9:5) “I Am The Light Of The World” @PaulTripp #oxygen14 — Dave Miers (@davemiers) August 5, 2014
It might look like I’ve pasted all my tweets in, but this is only a small fraction! Stay tuned for more.
Photoblog
Here are some day two photographs captured by Josh Mikhaiel:
