Cookout this Friday Night

We're having a cookout this friday, May 4th 6 pm, at Steve and Adrienne's place. for directions email me.

We have wrapped up our first round of Bible study as the EastLake 20s, so we wanted to invite everyone who has expressed an interest in 20somethings to come out to a cookout at 6:00 pm this Friday night at our place. Whether or not you've been to the group before, feel free to come out this weekend. If you think you might attend, shoot an email back. If you don't reply, still come.

We will provide sweet tea, chips, potato salad and burgers/dogs… folks can bring other things if you’d like. There were a couple of you that wanted to grill steak and we'd be more than happy to put it on the "barbee" if you provide the meat.

This is just going to be a time to get to know one another with no other agenda. Weather permitting we'll sit on the porch, throw frisbee or kick around a ball. Get to know a few others in our age group from the church.

Virginia Tech Massacre Thoughts

Everywhere you look on the media, there's another story about the VT massacre. To tell you the truth, most of it I don't know how to deal with. I know that we must have a problem when one person at a top-notch university goes through a classroom building with a weapon firing shots at innocent people. If we really call it what it is, it's sin. There are tales that this was another lonely student acting out from his depression, but it can't be that simple. What drives a person to this type of carnage? There is part of me that wants to hide and say, "NO, not again!" And there is this other part that wants to drive up to Blacksburg to comfort students and let them grieve and know that there is a God that loves them and has a solution to this sin problem they witnessed Monday morning, if they will only accept the death that Jesus died for them on the cross. The amazing part of this message of the cross is that when you say, "Jesus thanks for taking my place in death," he does it. This crisis of death is one that we're all going to deal with. Now or later. Sin demands a payment and that payment is death. What Jesus came for is to pay the sin payment, in order that we might live now and into eternity. So, while you think about the carnage at VT, consider the gift of life that Jesus offers you now.

Reaching out on the journey

I'm looking forward to see what happens with the blog here. I have a question for you...yes you reading this post? If you were going to get involved in some type of service project in your community, what do you think would be the most beneficial? Or, what are you already involved in? Post a quick comment.