A Final Unfinished Thought
Dear Campus House,
It’s been a good year. Not to get all sentimental with Green Day’s “Time Of Your Life” on repeat, but there have been some really awesome things happen in and through Campus House this year. I am really grateful for an amazing, faithful God and for you, His people, who have invested your time, heart, and love into this place and into each other.
For me, there have been plenty of highlights: big stuff like Starry Night Festival, Spring Break in the Smokies, Men’s retreat, the stories of what God continues to do at Greyhouse and GreyMob, and preparing for our vision trip to the Ukraine. But I have also been blown away by one on one conversations, hearing stories of how Jesus has completely changed people, random acts of service or hospitality or evangelism or worship that students are doing on their own, the look on the faces of those who got baptized, the increase of diversity in the big room on Sundays, the Thursday night we did the Gospel in 4 acts with people writing poetry and being all artistic… I could go on.
There have been difficult days as well: sitting with people in the midst of pain, confusion, loss; dealing with the heartache of watching a person slip further away from Jesus and make really horrible decisions; the commitment to continue to pray when there doesn’t appear to be answers coming any time soon. In all of it God is at work. His grace is real. Nothing is wasted. He continues to redeem and restore, to love and to save. He continues to use Campus House, to use each of you in what He is up to on this campus, in this city, and literally throughout the world and that is a humbling realization that invokes gratitude and worship.
I am excited about where Jesus is leading this. He has put together an incredible staff and student leadership team and He is going to do some amazing things over this next year. Pray about your part in that. We commit to pray for you— for God to deepen your relationship with Him in a way that will reflect your relationship with others and the world around you.
Have an phenomenal summer.
In Christ,
Rob & the CH Staff
What’s better than a house party?… A Block Party! Come join us from 4-8pm TONIGHT (Friday, April 19th) to experience an evening of fun. Joshua House will be hosting a block party and cookout (free food), games, AND live bands!
Get Into God’s Word Week- Day 4
Today is the last day of our four day commitment to being in God’s Word as a community.
Remember the challenge is to daily spend time in God’s Word and prayerfully considering what He is telling me through it. So, guard yourself from the temptation of just reading one chapter, closing your Bible, and checking it off the list. Spend time with God today, He’s waiting to meet you.
Today, we are reading 2 Timothy 4:
Preach the Word1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth andwander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of mydeparture has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.Personal Instructions9 Do your best to come to me soon. 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. GetMark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 12 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. 15 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 16 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.Final Greetings19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. 21 Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
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Think about it:
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
We hope this commitment to being in God’s Word daily has encouraged you to continue reading the Bible daily and to prayerfully considering all that God is speaking to you through His Word. May God bless you as you continue seeking Him!
Get Into God’s Word Week- Day 3
Today is the third day of our four day commitment to being in God’s Word as a community.
Remember the challenge is to daily spend time in God’s Word and prayerfully considering what He is telling me through it. So, guard yourself from the temptation of just reading one chapter, closing your Bible, and checking it off the list. Spend time with God today, He’s waiting to meet you.
Today, we are reading 2 Timothy 3:
Godlessness in the Last Days1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just asJannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of Godmay be competent, equipped for every good work.
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Think about it:
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
What You Heard (Worship & Teaching)
Sunday (4/14/13)
Worship:
All Creatures of Our God and King
Teaching:
Get Into God’s Word Week- Day 2
Today is the second day of our four day commitment to being in God’s Word as a community.
Remember the challenge is to daily spend time in God’s Word and prayerfully considering what He is telling me through it. So, guard yourself from the temptation of just reading one chapter, closing your Bible, and checking it off the list. Spend time with God today, He’s waiting to meet you.
Today, we are reading 2 Timothy 2:
A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 The saying is trustworthy, for:If we have died with him, we will also live with him;12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;if we deny him, he also will deny us;13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.A Worker Approved by God14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workerwho has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. 19 But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.” 20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
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Think about it:
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
Get Into God’s Word Week- Day 1
Today is the first day of our four day commitment to being in God’s Word as a community.
Remember the challenge is to daily spend time in God’s Word and prayerfully considering what He is telling me through it. So, guard yourself from the temptation of just reading one chapter, closing your Bible, and checking it off the list. Spend time with God today, He’s waiting to meet you.
Today, we are reading 2 Timothy 1:
Greeting1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,2 To Timothy, my beloved child:Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You3 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. 6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. 13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, 17 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me— 18 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
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Think about it:
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
