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Praise God for the ways that he’s answered prayer for Southern Sudan! The Republic of South Sudan is the newest nation in the world, with Independence Day on July 9, 2011. Read about the nation at Wikipedia and SBS World News. Pray from here and here.
PHOTO CREDIT: A man waves South Sudan’s national flag as he attends the Independence Day celebrations in the capital Juba, July 9, 2011. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
Check out all the other amazing pics over on Boston Big Picture.
I really enjoyed the past weekend away with SOULIES Youth Leaders. On Saturday we spent some time on a midyear ministry review. Review sessions can easily become unnecessarily negative. And negativity breeds negativity. Which then in turn breeds negativity. And so on. So we spent some time thinking about how to flavour our review by looking for evidences of God’s grace. In this vid, Mark Driscoll explains this concept:
Looking for evidences of God’s grace is not about ignoring areas for growth and improvement, but rather remembering that we have so many places that we see God’s kindness to us. Our review session on Saturday was really encouraging! I’m thankful for the many good things that God is doing among us, and we had a good opportunity to respond with praise and thanksgiving.
My hope is that in the ongoing process of reviewing our youth ministry that we would continue to flavour it with thankfulness to God for his incredible grace.
I’m excited to be spending the weekend with the SOULIES Youth Leaders. Good vibe so far. We’re hoping to have a good mix of business and pleasure. The main teaching content will be on ‘Humble Orthodoxy‘. We’ll reflect on some of Josh Harris’ writing and 2 Timothy. Not sure on what ‘Humble Orthodoxy’ is? Check out this comic that Josh shared on his blog:
That pretty much sums it up!!
I’ve written on Humble Orthodoxy a bunch of times. Click here to read a bit more.
It’s a message I need to keep hearing, and I’m guessing it’s probably a message many of my readers need to keep hearing too!
Josh also posted a recent sermon on Humble Orthodoxy. I might try and listen this weekend…
Familiar with Humble Orthodoxy? How do you try and cultivate it in your life? (ie What do you do to guard yourself form being a Christian Jerk?)
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Above is my fave pic from the July smashing mag desktop designs. And here’s the best of June (according to clicks) and some other stats: