Quote Of The Week:

"However hard some things are to understand, it is never helpful to start picking and choosing biblical truths we find congenial, as if the Bible is an open-shelved supermarket where we are at perfect liberty to choose only the chocolate bars. For the Christian, it is God's Word, and it is not negotiable. What answers we find may not be exhaustive, but they give us the God who is there, and who gives us some measure of comfort and assurance. The alternative is a god we manufacture, and who provides no comfort at all. Whatever comfort we feel is self-delusion, and it will be stripped away at the end when we give an account to the God who has spoken to us, not only in Scripture, but supremely in his Son Jesus Christ." 

~D.A. Carson~

I am in my third home The A.C. Buehler Library on the beautiful campus of Elmhurst College. Yester i found out that Residence Life was going to kick me and 70 of my fellow juniors off campus for our senior year. At first i was rather upset at my new homelessness but i remembered that last time i checked Jesus was still in Control. And i remembered of Gods promise of great works in the lives of his Children (Ephesians 2:10).  God has Good works for us to do and whether or not they are in our plan God wants us to do them, its not like you give God a Contract and ask him to sign it, its the other way around.

Speaking of doing God's work 33 other elmhurst students and I will be heading down to Panama City Beach, Florida to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our fellow college students from all around the country who are down the to party. This will be my third time going and i am still just as excited as i was my first time going down there. If you could please pray for the Holy Spirit to prepare the hearts of the people that we will meet down there and also for Boldness for all the students that will be down there. 

Here is an Article that has really can relate to how i have been feeling lately and this was a great and convicting read for me. its really short and to the point:

Never Let the Gospel Get Smaller

March 17, 2009  |  By: John Piper 
Category: Commentary

Here is a simple exhortation that I have been trying to implement in our family:

Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller.

Our temptation is to think that the gospel is for beginners and then we go on to greater things. But the real challenge is to see the gospel as the greatest thing—and getting greater all the time.

The Gospel gets bigger when, in your heart,

• grace gets bigger;
• Christ gets greater;
• his death gets more wonderful;
• his resurrection gets more astonishing;
• the work of the Spirit gets mightier;
• the power of the gospel gets more pervasive;
• its global extent gets wider;
• your own sin gets uglier;
• the devil gets more evil;
• the gospel's roots in eternity go deeper;
• its connections with everything in the Bible and in the world get stronger;
• and the magnitude of its celebration in eternity gets louder.

So keep this in mind: Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.

Pray that it won’t. Read solid books on it. Sing about it. Tell someone about it who is ignorant or unsure about it.

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel.... For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)

So dont let the gospel get small. Live it and love its truth.

In Him Who reedeems,

Andy C.

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