//Freeze Frame\\

Question~N~Response

Freeze Frame - In Everyday Life

WHERE/HOW/DOES your Christ-Likeness SHOW up

We tend to Compartmentalize our lives...

I'm a certain way when I'm @ 

Home, or Church, or with Friends, or with Family, 

Sports, Hobbies, Traveling, etc...

Showstoppers: Tori & Ani Campbell
invite us to Fill in the Blanks ____________
Resolving to be a Jesus Follower in every circumstance, predicament, location, and friendship...

What are ways we may resolve to be the same

Christ Follower - regardless of my location & who I'm with?

How do I consistently be who I really am - IN CHRIST!

GOOD QUESTIONS...

may we be guided by these passages 

Romans 11:33-36

“Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravagant generosity of God – this deep, deep wisdom? It’s way over our heads. We’ll never figure it out.

Is there anyone who can explain God?Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do?Anyone who has done him such a huge favor that God has to ask his advice?Everything comes from him;Everything happens through him;Everything ends up in him.Always glory! Always praise!Yes. Yes. Yes.”

Romans 11:33-36 (The Message)

Colossians 3:12-17

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Corinthians 10:31

23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— 29 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

Q & R (lite) Episode 9

Q & R (lite) Episode 8

Q & R (lite) Episode 7

//Dazed & Confused\\

When Confusion's my CompanionAnd Despair holds me for RansomI will feel no fearI know that You are near - King and Country

QNR returns to the FSMwired Bunker 2.0
From the Diary of Ruby Blake
Come the Contemplations of Unanswered Questions

Ugh?

Today I have been WRESTLING.

What do I want to do with God? Do I believe that He exists? Do I believe that I need Him? Do I believe that Jesus is God? Is He accessible to me? Would a “relationship with God” be in my mind, or will I FEEL it at all?

To what point do I—try to imagine God, talk to Him, TRY to believe / picture Him? What will HE do, and what is my job? How do I know that He has chosen / taken hold of / found me? If I “just trust God,” well, what do I do in the meantime? How many people really have a TRUE, RIGHT relationship with Jesus?

Whom do I address in the Trinity? Do I pray to the Holy Spirit sometimes, God the Father sometimes, and Jesus sometimes? Is Jesus the MAIN one?

How do I know that it is God talking to my heart—and when is it Satan? When is it just ME? Is it ever? How much do I do (e.g. resisting the devil, “having faith,” I don’t know—situations where I try to CONVINCE myself of something or change my mindset), and how much will the Spirit do?

What does Jesus do, and what does the Spirit do? What does God do? Or can I not make distinctions because they are One?

Should I FOCUS on learning the Bible? How important is academic study, in comparison? How much speculation about Truth is healthy, and when should we stop trying to figure it out? What do people do who don’t have the Bible—how do they grow in TRUTH?

I could go on. Questions—these are good to put on paper, to release from cluttering, rattling in my mind. I WANT TO BELIEVE IN JESUS. I want to pursue Truth. I don’t know how to believe it in my SOUL, without doubts in my MIND

Psalms 42
As the deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
How I would go with the throng
and lead them in the procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, 
My salvation and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you 
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
From Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of the waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock:
Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?"
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long
Where is your God?"
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

I look up to the mountains

Does my strength come from the mountains?

No, my strength comes from God

Who made heaven, and earth, and the mountains

When confusion's my companion

And despair holds me for ransom

I will feel no fear

I know that You are near

When I'm caught deep in the valley

With chaos for my company

I'll find my comfort here

‘Cause I know that You are near

My help comes from You

You're right here, pulling me through

You carry my weakness, my sickness, my brokenness all on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

My help comes from You

You are my rest, my rescue

I don't have to see to believe that You're lifting me up on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

You mend what once was shattered

And You turn my tears to laughter

Your forgiveness is my fortress

Oh Your mercy is relentless

My help comes from You

You're right here, pulling me through

You carry my weakness, my sickness, my brokenness all on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

My help comes from You

You are my rest, my rescue

I don't have to see to believe that You're lifting me up on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

My help is from You

Don't have to see it to believe it

My help is from you

Don't have to see it, ‘cause I know, ‘cause I know it's true

My help is from You

Don't have to see it to believe it

My help is from you

Don't have to see it, ‘cause I know, ‘cause I know it's true

My help comes from You

You're right here, pulling me through

You carry my weakness, my sickness, my brokenness all on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

My help comes from You

You are my rest, my rescue

I don't have to see to believe that You're lifting me up on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

My help is from You

Don't have to see it to believe it

My help is from you

Don't have to see it, ‘cause I know, ‘cause I know it's true

//Unexpected Journey\\

Life After Graduation

Return of the Alumni

Special Guest Elizabeth Bradt

Lots of Questions surround the grad. 

Where might I go to school?

What will my room-mates be like?

will I have my own vehicle?

Elizabeth invites us to enter her story:

Inexpensive Options for College.  Living with Grandparents.

Back home with Parents 
after the autonomy of living away from home.

A Totaled Vehicle & a Spared Life

Small Group Night - to work on some Q N R