Christian Faculty and Staff Network gathering on 9/15 - Guest speaker: Phil Bishop

Join us on Wednesday, September 15, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries building (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue), and (drum roll!) lunch will be served! At $1 per meal, it's the best meal deal in town. 

Meeting topic 

Phil Bishop, UA Professor Emeritus, Kinesiology, will share on Building a Legacy that Lasts at our  9/15. Get to know Phil at http://www.philbishop.com/ 

Items of interest 

Speakers and facilitators

  • Jerran Hill will facilitate discussion of a chapter from this semester's book, Crazy Love by Francis Chan, on 10/6.
  • Contact me if you would like to facilitate one of the weekly gatherings. 

Food for thought 

Jen Wilkin suggests how we can look at sanctification as a lifelong journey.

  • Main point: "Sanctification, while certain, is not sudden."
  • More about it:
    • "All who faithfully proclaim the Good News of Christ must do so circumspectly, balancing a healthy fear of hypocrisy and a healthy fear of leaving God’s truth un-uttered."
    • "Positionally, we go from wretch to redeemed in an instant. But practically, we 'work out our salvation' over the course of many years."
    • "There is renewed grief in our confession of a repeated sin, but there is real comfort in seeing the distance stretch between those confessions."
  • Takeaways:
    • "That widening distance tells me that the grace of God is indeed teaching me to say no to ungodliness and training me to lead a self-controlled, godly life (Titus 2:11–12)."
    • "There is indeed a wideness in God’s mercy. Even when—no, especially when—I am preaching to myself." 

These happened on the day of our meeting

  • 1855. James Chisolm, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, died, one of the last victims of a Yellow Fever epidemic that struck Portsmouth, Virginia. He had remained in Portsmouth to minister to those afflicted by the disease. He wrote, "The question of duty, as a minister of Christ, has determined me to stand at the post to which, I believe, all along the providence of God called me."
  • 1963. A bomb exploded at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four Black girls.

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