I couldn't be more proud.....

..of the students in our youth group. This Saturday night they are putting on a coffeehouse to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur. This came out of a series that Doug and I did right before school started where we looked at Micah 6:8 and what God requires of us. I think many of our students were challenged by the ideas of doing justly, loving mercy and walking humbly before God. One of our students has dared to ask the question, 'why can't we do more?' And so we are having a coffeehouse. Our students are the ones who have put this whole thing together. They are promoting it at their schools and seem to be getting positive feedback about the event. One of our teen bands, The Steadfast, will be performing along with an art auction and coffee from a local coffee shop, The Morning Mug. All of the money raised will go to helpdarfurnow.org and once again I could not be any more proud of our students. Way to go FVCN students!

Story of Jacob

I'm speaking on the story of Jacob this weekend and am having a bit of trouble trying to figure out where to go with it.  This year Doug and I are trying to work through a majority of scripture looking through the lens of God's call in Micah 6:8 to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.  Our desire is to talk through how the people of God have done this well, failed miserably, or been challenged by God in a new way.  We hope to connect the story of God into our story so that we can learn, grow and understand that we are a part of God's story.

So back to my question.  Do you feel that only focusing on the reconcilliation part of the story of Jacob misses out on the bigger story of God choosing Jacob to be the one to carry on the promise of Abraham?  I've read quite a bit the past couple of days on Jacob and I want to make sure that I do his story justice.  Any thoughts?