Christmas Party

Join us this Sunday at 7 in the Green Room for our end of the year Christmas Party. We'll have all kinds of baked goodies along with games to play and McKibben's special Hot Chocolate.

Also, in order to party with a purpose we invite you to bring along non-perishable food items to give toward the ongoing food drive at Bent Tree in hopes of helping families all over Dallas get enough to eat this Christmas.

So grab a few friends and a couple of cans of green beans and come meet and hang out with other Young Adults at Bent Tree and celebrate the birth of our Lord.

More here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215929191590&ref=mf

Pass/Fail

For our entire childhood everything thing we did in school was weighed and graded. If our right answers outweighed our wrong answers by a large enough margin we passed and were allowed to move on to the next measurement or test. This naturally caused us to begin to rank ourselves based on performance. The person that got the least things wrong was at the top and the person that did the least right was at the bottom. And in the end, if you had not done enough right then you failed.

Often I think this is how we view our spiritual lives as well, as if God is just the teacher of a class grading our lives on some giant sliding scale. And as long as our good actions outweigh our bad ones then we're in. Like in school, this causes us to begin to rank ourselves so that as long as you seem to be doing less bad than enough other people you should pass. Because, of course, if this is how God works, no one is perfect so he must grade on a curve.

Fortunately for the entire world, the Bible has examples on almost every page that speak in the face of that kind of system. Throughout history we see God using people who are steeped in sin for His purposes and covering them with His Grace.

Join us this Sunday as we look at the life of Rahab and how God used a lying prostitute to accomplish His purposes and then poured out grace on her and her family.

We'll be in the Green Room backstage at 7, bring a friend and join us as we grow closer to God and each other.

Check out the facebook event for more info.