thoughts of a student pastor
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| Blog Name: |
thoughts of a student pastor |
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http://www.jeremyisaacs.org |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
student ministry, religion, youth ministry |
| Description: |
I am the Director of Student Ministry at Mt. Paran North, a church of 2000 in Atlanta, GA. I write about student ministry, leadership, business, management, sports, and other things of interest. Thanks for stopping by. |
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46 Followers |
I’m Getting Older
| This feels like a post I should make on my birthday, but that’s still 7 months away. This is actually something that came from my twitter account (FOLLOW ME HERE) earlier today.
I wrote in successive tweets:
I was confronted in the last 24 hours with the fact that I’m getting older. Here’s how I know:
1) I’m shrinking. I used to be a lot closer to the 6ft mark on the gas station door height measuring sticker
2) In a mtg this morning a man was casting a very big vision and I felt his timel |
Stay Where You Are
| My friend Eric Brown wrote a GREAT POST over at CREATINGCOLOR.ORG recently about staying where you are. He writes:
Often times our lack for intentional investments steals our attention towards bigger and better dreams, rather then, the community you live in…Living li |
Dream Day
| Tomorrow I am getting to do something that I have to do every few months to stay sane! I’m taking a dream day.
Now the name is a little misleading, because I’m not going to sit around and daydream all day. It’s a refueling, planning, preparation day (with some dreaming involved).
Each of these days looks different. In the past I have taken dream days at a coffee shop and stayed there for 7-8 hours just writing things in a book or typing on my laptop. Another was at a camp up in the mountains. You get the idea.
Tomorrow’s version will take place between here and Asheville, NC (where I will be speaking on Saturday). It is my plan to map |
Cornestonempn.com
| Yesterday our College Pastor, Justin Walker, unveiled the new name, brand, website and philosophy for college students here at North. You can visit the site at cornerstonempn.com and read about some of the others things mentioned above.
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Unfinished Sermons
| Last night was a powerful night. We started a new series called “The Price is Right” and will, for the next few weeks, be looking at the cost of God’s “free” gift of grace.
The talk last night was a typical week 1 message. I defined some terms (grace, mercy, forgiveness, etc) to make it easier for us to all move forward together in the remainder of the series. I then looked at Romans 6 and to the flagstone verse of John 3:16 to really understand what grace was all about and how we are supposed to respond.
I was very transparent in a story from my past about getting into credit card trouble in college and my parents “bailing me out̶ |
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