-

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fall Ministry Update

-
Image
The last several weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind for us at Loudoun FCA so I figured I’d take a moment to share some quick updates: Huddles have kicked off!   We have relaunched huddles at Rock Ridge High School (12 students at our first meeting last week), Dominion High School, and Eagle Ridge Middle School (kicking off this week) after participation had petered out last year.   Several other schools in the county are continuing to have strong attendance at their huddles which started up and grew in strength last year, including Park View High School, Brambleton Middle School, and Seneca Ridge Middle School.   Whenever parents or students ask about huddles at a particular school and why they don’t have one or it’s not well attended, I always explain that it largely depends on student leaders.   As an area representative for Fellowship of Christian Athletes, I can’t force my way into a public school.   However, if we have a few enthusiastic leaders...
Read more

The Idolatry of Safety

-
My favorite scene in C.S. Lewis’s book, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is when the children are learning about Aslan, the Christ figure in the books, for the first time.  In the scene, Susan, Lucy, and their brothers are talking to Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, who inform them that Aslan is likely not exactly what they expect: “Aslan is a lion – the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"... "Safe?" said Mr. Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” He’s not safe.  But He’s the King.  How often do I live in a way that equates safety with God’s goodness?  I mean, this is crazy thinking, right?  But don’t we all feel this way sometimes?  Even though the Bible clearly says that following Jesus means taking up your cross (which doesn’t sound very safe to me)...
Read more

Chasing the Impossible

-
Perfection: It’s impossible for us mere mortals to achieve, but oh how much energy and effort we waste trying to achieve it!  Read any local paper and you can see the signs of it.  Kids across this county face the challenge every day to have perfect grades, perfect games/races/matches on the fields and courts of competition, and perfect social circles.  And, if the pressures at school aren’t enough, when they go home at night, they’re expected to have perfectly funny Tweets, perfectly interesting Snapchat stories, and the perfect amount of likes on their Instagram posts.  They must also make sure to keep that ratio of followers on Twitter/Instagram to those they follow in check.  Because if you follow more people than follow you back, it’s super uncool.  Seriously!  Who made up these rules?!  And middle and high school kids these days subscribe to these ridiculously arbitrary standards like it’s normal!  Not only that, but far too many o...
Read more