Christian Faculty and Staff Network gathering on 2/16 - Chapter 5, Enduring and the Mind

Join us on Wednesday, February 16, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries building library (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue), and lunch will be served! 

Meeting logistics

We'll discuss Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith by Trillia Newbell

Semester schedule. Our semester schedule is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f8gdIycPWFZwhs7YFJ0_HW5p1I6ik_LY4NaLDkX7Pn8/edit?usp=sharing

Lunch is provided by churches in the area.

  • It's $1 per meal, the best meal deal in town. You're welcome to be eating your lunch during the gathering.
  • You have the choice of paying by the meal or making a single payment to cover the semester.

 

Items of interest 

Coming up 

Trillia Newbell, author of Sacred Endurance, is scheduled to join us via Zoom on 3/9 for a Q&A session about the ideas behind her book. It will be a Q&A session. If you have a question you'd like to ask, reply back to me, and I'll put it on the list. 

Nick and Ruth Ripken, authors and movie creators of The Insanity of God will be at Northport Baptist Church February 18-20 to present on persecution of Christians around the world. 

Think about it 

I found an interview with "Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, co-founder and president of the Magis Center, the host of the weekly program Fr. Spitzer’s Universe on EWTN, and a national speaker and media guest on matters of faith, reason, and science," where he "talks about what he has learned through his struggle with blindness as well as his passion for providing evidence-based faith resources." This is an example of someone practicing what Trillia Newbell calls "sacred endurance." What he said:

  • His advisor's question when he told his advisor he was "damaged goods" because of his retinitis pigmentosa: "What spirit have you been listening to?"
  • "I am totally blind now at sixty-eight. But I am not inhibited in any way. In fact, the Holy Spirit uses this vision deficit to help me considerably."
  • "Blindness helps you to be humble and dependent on other people, as a priest ought to be. You need to be humble if you’re going to serve like Jesus Christ."
  • "What’s really important is to do things the way Jesus would do them, not the way that I, with all of my faculties, would do them."
  • "…don’t worry about what you lack. The Lord takes our weaknesses and turns them to his best advantage. At the end of the day, the disadvantages you have, the sufferings you endure, those are the real levers to pry you loose from the world—from narcissism, sensuality, and spiritual pride. If you want to get rid of that stuff, all you need is one really good suffering. Two is even better."
  • "You don’t have to get fancy; all you need to do is give testimony to the Lord you love."
  • "You don’t have to get fancy; all you need to do is give testimony to the Lord you love."

 

·         1801 The African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) was incorporated.

·         1977 Archbishop Luwum was martyred in Uganda by the Idi Amin regime.

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