Crossroads Retreat

Digging Deep in God’s Word

Our second annual crossroads retreat is coming up Feb. 4-6.

Join us for a special weekend away learning how to dig deeper into God’s Word. This is also a weekend to hang-out with other young adults, to have fun together, to worship God, and encourage one another in Christ.

Our special guest for the weekend with be Joel and Jen Martin, on staff with DiscipleMakers at Lafayette and East Stroudsburg University.Their passion is to train the next generation to love the gospel, God’s word, and other people. (find out more about them HERE)

Get Brochure and Registration Form HERE

Real Life Change

Sermon_Logo_1Scriptures talk a lot about the new life we have in Christ, but what does that look like in daily life? How is it that we conquer anger, gossip, hatred, greed, lust, sexual struggles, lying, theft, alcoholism, drugs, smoking, etc? Lucky for us Paul does not simply talk in the abstract,he actually addresses each of the above in very practical ways. Below is a link to both the text and the audio from my sermon from last week where I sought to outline a few principles for Real Life Change from Ephesians.

Text of sermon Here

Audio Here (note: recording starts part way into the first point)

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I heard some GREAT testimonies of God’s work of change in several peoples lives at the NEXT conference last month.

One particular one I liked is Here

You can read several others at the ThisIsNext.org blog Here

Here I Am To Worship

“I will never be a better lover of anyone than I am a lover of God.  I am more human and most like Jesus, most reflecting my true identity when I am engaged in worship.”  With those truths Brian Cooper closed our first session at the BFC Young Adults Retreat.

Fifty young adults spent this past weekend at Pinebrook in the Poconos rejoicing in God and learning to worship Him better.  We looked at worship in dark times in life as well as drawing our pleasure in life from God alone and not false imitations.  We spent time reading the Scriptures together and getting a much bigger picture of who this God is we say we worship.  And of course we spent some good time singing and praising God, led by the Crossroads Band from Grace BFC in Wallingford.

It was a great weekend to just hang out in god’s creation and to have lots of fun together!  We played games, listened to music and skits, sat around a campfire sharing stories, and just enjoyed a time away with other young adults from around the BFC.

There were 18 of us from Grace Bible Fellowship Church in Wallingford, where I serve as a pastor.  It was a wonderful time of bonding and of growing together in the Lord.  For me it was a good weekend of focusing on the enormity and loving kindnesses of God.  I was also challenged, thinking about places in my own life where it is easy to loose focus, either concentrating on the struggles of life, or looking other places for pleasure.  I came away with a renewed desire to make time to  meditate on God’s greatness, worshiping and enjoying Him alone.

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