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Connect Dinner


Sunday, February 21, 2016
6:00pm – 7:00pm 18:00 – 19:00

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At a church with many young professionals, we want to help Christians integrate the gospel into their vocations. To this end, we’ve started a test group amongst a few of our members using the @praxislabs curriculum. Praxis Lab’s desire is to build a community of founders, funders, and ventures that act redemptively, demonstrating faith in a winsome way across culture. We're grateful to @ahcpix and his team for the work they've put into this program to help guide our young church professionals. We're praying for our team currently going through this content - that they would lead, grow, and build in such a way that loves others well and displays the gospel clearly.
On episode 55 of the podcast, we're talking to Alan Noble about being a disruptive witness in a distracted, secular age. - Dr. O. Alan Noble is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, editor-in-chief of "Christ and Pop Culture", and author of "Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age". Alan has written articles for Christian publications such as Modern Reformation, InTouch Magazine, and Christianity Today and for secular publications like VOX, Buzzfeed, and The Atlantic. - You can access our podcasts through the "Connect" page on our website, on iTunes, or through the Podcasts app under "Cross of Christ Church".
Our final Men's & Women's Gatherings of the semester are this week. This time together as men and women has been really special and defining as a church - We've studied the book of Ecclesiastes together alongside our sermon series in John, we created our first ever printed resource (the Ecclesiastes study guides) as a church, and we've cultivated a culture of deepened knowledge of God's Word through teaching, studying, and prayer together. - Women, tonight you'll be led in worship before your time together with Kim. Men, you'll be led by Truman on Friday morning. We hope to see you there, and we're already looking forward to our next launch of Gatherings in the new year!
Episode 54 of the podcast is up, and we’re talking to Tim and Katie Wright, members here at Cross of Christ, about working in creative industries and being new parents. - You can access our podcasts through the "Connect" page on our website, on iTunes, or through the Podcasts app under "Cross of Christ Church".
Rain or shine, a few of our members were there for the Huntington State Beach Cleanup earlier this month! We loved the initiative of our Mercy Ministry Team to partner with @occoastkeeper, an organization that provides opportunities for the community to improve their quality of life and protect their environment through these beach cleanups. If you’re in the Orange County area, they have some pretty cool ways to get involved!
On Episode 53 of the podcast, we’re talking to Fleming Rutledge about the Cross of Christ in our current cultural moment. - Fleming Rutledge is an author, preacher, and former priest in the Episcopal Church. She is the author of eleven books, including “The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ”, “And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament”, and “Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ”. - She and her husband have been married for 59 years and have two daughters and two grandchildren. - You can access our podcasts through the "Connect" page on our website, on iTunes, or through the Podcasts app under "Cross of Christ Church".
Yesterday, our very own Kim Bogardus spoke at @thegospelcoalition’s West Coast Conference on “The Joys and Struggles of Being a Church Planter’s Wife”. Pastor Nick recaps the day: - “Loved seeing these women share about how God has met them and worked through the loneliness, expectations, and struggles of church planting. In our Reformed Evangelical tribe we do a great job of equipping and assessing the pastor but we have a ways to go in caring for and equipping the wives. I’m thankful and excited for @thegospelcoalition dedicating a breakout specifically to that need and for these women doing such a great job serving those in attendance.” - We’re grateful for the faithfulness of Kim to Cross of Christ - the joys, the expectations, the loneliness, the hospitality, the empathy, and the sacrificial love she has for the church and its people. We’ve been blessed by her wisdom and steadfastness, and we’re excited that she could share her insight with others yesterday!
Did you catch Episode 52 of the podcast? Pastor Nick chatted with pastor and author Zack Eswine about depression, anxiety, and ministry in a Post-Christian, secular world. - Zack Eswine did his undergraduate work at Ball State University, and has an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Regent University. He is the author of “The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations Through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus”, “Spurgeon’s Sorrows: Realistic Hope for Those Who Suffer from Depression”, and “Preaching to a Post-Everything World.” He, his wife Jessica, and their three children live in Webster Groves, Missouri where Zack is the pastor of Riverside Church. He enjoys old movies, music, poetry, novels, essays on culture, writings on spirituality. He cheers for Notre Dame Football and Indiana Basketball. Sitting next to a body of water, whether a pond, a lake or an ocean, calms his mind. Jesus has his attention. - You can access our podcasts through the "Connect" page on our website, on iTunes, or through the Podcasts app under "Cross of Christ Church".
Pastor Nick recaps our Men’s Retreat this weekend: - “When the world seems in chaos, it’s great to be around some really good men. So thankful for a weekend away with the men from Cross of Christ on our annual retreat. It’s awesome to see more men come every year to give a couple days to worship, prayer, and play together. In ministry, as in life, it’s not the loudest, most obvious people or moments that are the most formative but the accumulation of small, overlooked, consistent acts of love and sacrifice over time that have the most impact. I’m excited to look in a few years and see how the weekly and monthly rhythms we have as a church and this annual tradition of the retreat have shaped them, their families, their work, and our church. - The highlights for me were worship and singing together, hearing a good friend share his story, silence and solitude, going on a trail run, the annual game of Hammerschlagen, and teaching a bunch of them about grilling meat over an open fire with 27lbs of tri tip and 8lbs of ribeye. Those are some of the ingredients for a great weekend.” -@nickbogardus

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