Penn Valley Youth

Pretending to be a handy man!

So i'm at Home Depot to pick up a part to try and fix my shower this morning. pretty easy job, but the results could go anywhich way. lets hope for the best.

Momentum Registration Reminder

I wanted remind everyone that the deadline for the discounted early bird rate for momentum is quickly approaching. May first is this Friday!  You will need to make sure that you have completed your registration by then in order to take advantage of the reduced rate.  During the registration process you will be asked if we are planning to take advantage of the Sunday night housing for early registration, you should answer no, as we will plan to leave early Monday morning.  If you have any other questions please contact Pastor Mark at your earliest convenience.  I have listed a link below to the Momentum website.

www.buildmomentum.org

Tuscarora Sign Up

Tuscarora Sign Ups are now open.

We have reserved a few spaces for students that were not able to go to Tuscarora last month based upon the low number of workers required by Tuscarora.  When you sign up today do not be alarmed at the low number of positions available and make sure you sign up for the waiting list.  I will sort our the combination of the sign ups this afternoon and the spots reserved and you will see an updated list sometime this evening.  Looking forward to a great weekend!

My tree finally bloomed

Foolishness vs Faithfulness

I'm thinking about the relationship between foolishness and faithfulness. Would it be a step step of faith if it didn't look a little foolish from a human perspective before you took it? Just thinking outloud.

Great way to start the day.

I've got a good cup of sumatra and am finally getting to Francis Chan's book Crazy Love. looking forward to diving into this one!

Bux Mont Campus Easter Extravaganza

The view out my office window

Spring is coming ever so slowly... I am looking forward to my Tree Blooming soon.

A whole new meaning to Putting on the "New Self"

Displacing Idols

"It is seldom that any of our bad habits or flaws disappear by a mere process of natural extinction.  At least it is very seldom that this is done through the instrumentality of reasoning, or by the force of mental determination.  But what cannot be destroyed may be dispossessed.  And one taste may be made to give way to another and to lose it’s power entirely as the reigning affection of the mind.  The boy, who ceases at length to be a slave of his appetite, does so because a more mature taste has brought it into subordination.  (So for example) The young man may cease to idolize sensual pleasures but it is because the idol of wealth has gotten ascendancy so the love of money can cast out the love of sloth, however even the love of money can cease to have mastery over the heart if it is drawn into the world of ideology and politics and he is now lorded over by a love of power and moral superiority. But there is not one of these transformations in which the heart is left without an object.  The hearts desire for an ultimate object may be conquered, but its desire to have some object is unconquerable.  The only way to dispossess the heart of an old affection is through the expulsive power of a new one.  It is therefore only when admitted into the number of God’s children through faith in Jesus Christ, that the spirit of adoption is poured out on us… it is then that the heart brought under the mastery of one great predominant and supreme affection is delivered from the tyranny of all it’s former desires and the only way deliverance is possible."

Thomas Chalmers
From his sermon "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection."

Came across this in a sermon by Tim Keller.