Matthew 5- Part 2  

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Matthew 5: 4


"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
"They who grieve are blessed, for God will comfort them."

Grieve comes from the root "grave" or heavy. I truly believe Jesus is inviting his followers to see that the Kingdom, the Kingdom of truth, beauty, completion and triumph, involves embracing the heavy weight of the messiness of humanity. Jesus became flesh...the son of God was tempted in every way here on Earth. He experienced the fragility of our skin. He saw our brittleness firsthand. So he invites his followers to grieve for those who are hurting, mourn for those who are broken...because he knew this is our natural condition without His restoration of us. 

So He says...

Mourn for your enemies. 

Grieve for your rival. 

Mourn with your mom. 

Grieve with your estranged wife. 

Mourn with the very person you want to curse. 

Grieve for the lost. 

For you will be comforted. 

Fall Updates to the Website  

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We have made a ton of changes to our student pages on our main website at www.trinitywired.com. From there, you can see some changes on our main Student page as well as at each of the Discover, Develop and Deploy pages. Beautiful. 

HS Pool Party  

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So the pool is like 65 degrees and hasn't had a chance to warm up. In light of this, we are cancelling the HS parties as well. No replacement date is being considered at this time.

See you all after Labor Day...it will come quickly trust me!

Pool Parties today  

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Hey everyone,

It looks like we are only cancelling our middle school pool party from 11-2 as of now. Yes, the radar shows a little break in the storm system, but the temperature is 63 degrees! Not exactly pool weather...don't want anyone getting chills and/or dying.

We'll keep you updated on the HS party.

Matthew 5- Part 1  

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Ah, the Beatitudes. 


Attitudes we should be. 

Sorry for the obvious. 

Let me rephrase that...attitudes we should embrace, but really we treat them as suggestions from Jesus of how to be perfect and there is no way we can obtain that so we just read the listing of them in Matthew 5 and smile and nod and agree with Jesus, but never ask him to change us and actually take hold of the Kingdom shift he is trying to instill in us. 

Yes Mr. and Ms. OCD...that was a run-on sentence. Check out the first 10 verses of Ephesians...that's all one sentence in the Greek. Paul puts my run-on to shame so stop crying. 

I'm going to spend the next few Matthew posts in chapter 5 (and I know they have been lacking lately...I am jumping back into posting now that Fall is rapidly approaching). But I don't want to just run through the Beatitudes like I normally do, briefly commenting on them as a whole...I want us to key in on specific paradigm shifts Jesus is inviting us into when he begins to list off what a life abandoned for the Kingdom of God would look like. Yes, this may take a few weeks. But I really want us to think: What is Jesus inviting us up into in these verses?

Matthew 5:3 says, "Blessed are those who realize their spiritual poverty, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them." Other translations say "blessed are the poor in spirit" while one paraphrase even says, "you're blessed when you are at the end of your rope." 

Then it goes on to say, "With less of you there is more of God and His rule."

Could Jesus possible be saying stop coming to me with your suffocating, shrink-wrapped self-righteousness so you can actually see God and not yourself? Is there a chance that Jesus is speaking straight into our selfish need for neat and tidy spirituality, our pursuit of the black and white (like the Pharisees and the Sabbath) and the fact that we have bought the lie from the enemy that we have it all together?

Blessed are those who realize how poor they really are. 

How rank and pungent they really are.

How gross their "acts of holiness" really are. 

How feeble they really are. 

How unworthy they really are. 

How inadequate they really are. 

How jacked up they really are. 

How far their hearts had turned away from God. 

You are blessed. 

Why? 

Because you don't have to see and hear from God through countless layers of lies of pride and self-righteousness. Because when there is less of you, there is more room for God and His rule. 

Last CommonPoint tomorrow (Aug. 23)  

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Just a reminder that Sunday, August 23 is the last day of CommonPoint this summer. We will take a few weeks off before the Fall to get everything amped up...then our first month will look like this (and it's a lot to take in friend...)


Sept. 9- All leaders meet at Trinity for a run-through/ training

Sept. 13- Parent's Meetings (1st service MS, 2nd service HS)

Sept. 13 (6-8 p.m.)- Crosswalk starts its normal Sunday night schedule with a 2009-10 Preview Night (ya, sort of like a Fall Kick-off)

Sept. 16 (6:30-8:30 p.m.)- Impact starts its normal Wednesday night schedule with a 2009-10 Preview Night

Sept. 20- Rooted Group Previews (1st service MS, 2nd service HS)

Sept. 27- Rooted Groups start this week

Pool Parties on Wednesday  

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We are not making the mistake we have the last two pool party days...

So here's how we are doing this. The weather is calling for a 30% chance of thunderstorms (not too surprised there...) But we are not trusting that, we are letting you be the weather man/woman...so if you look outside and you see lightning painting your view, rain downpouring along your window...stay home. If it is just barely cloudy and the weather forecast didn't take into account that this is MICHIGAN and it's good enough pool weather...then come on over to the Bytwerk's in Mason! So- you be the judge. We'll be there if the weather is remotely decent.

Hope to see you then!

Calendars are up  

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A lot of you will be receiving these in the mail this week, but just in case you don't they are up on our main student ministry page.

Fall 2009 Impact Calendar

Fall 2009 Crosswalk Calendar

Last Mystery Trip Clue  

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Here it is...

Our last stop on the trip has a name eerily similar to the second largest church in the state of Michigan...but would take about an hour to drive from one to the other.

Summer Camp Update  

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 1 "Come, let us return to the LORD. 
       He has torn us to pieces 
       but he will heal us; 
       he has injured us 
       but he will bind up our wounds.

 2 After two days he will revive us; 
       on the third day he will restore us, 
       that we may live in his presence.

 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; 
       let us press on to acknowledge him. 
       As surely as the sun rises, 
       he will appear; 
       he will come to us like the winter rains, 
       like the spring rains that water the earth." (Hosea 6:1-3)

Can't write for very long, but WOW Jesus is making our leaders and students new. Students are being restored, renewed, rejuvenated, freed...ya no words are really working here. Just know...I'm pumped. 

Keep praying. 

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