Our last series for the 2009-2010 school year will be Jesus: The Biography. It's going to be an exciting in-depth study of the man who we know as Jesus. The series will be told much like a biography examining his life in chronological order starting with his birth. The two other weeks will cover his ministry and his death all examined through the eyes of the people who wrote his life story and the people who prophesied about him hundreds of years before he was born.  

To intro our new two week Sunday study on the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) I asked some of our leaders and students to show me their "hidden talents". The following video shows some of the chaos that ensued so enjoy and join us soon!

We're kicking off our new March series tonight and it's one I'm extremely excited about. During Religions of the World were going to be doing a fly by overview of some of the world's most influential religions outside of Christianity and Catholicism. I think it's important to know not only what we believe and why we believe it but also what other people believe and why they believe it. This series will be going on both Wednesdays and Sundays with each week spotlighting a different religion. The schedule will go as follows...

March 10: Tribal Religions
March 14: Buddhism
March 17: Mormonism
March 21: Hinduism
March 24: Islam
March 28; Atheism
March 31: Jehovah's Witness

On Wednesday we begin our new series titled "Messy Spirituality" and so in preparation I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the word "spiritual" means. I asked my team of leaders what came to mind when I asked them to think of spiritual things and found that most of them visualized a sunset at the beach. It's one of God's most beautiful and simplest creations and when we look at it we can't help but be drawn to God. Well what it is about a sunset that draws us to God? If something as simple as a sunset at the beach can be spiritual then why do we dismiss ourselves as nonspiritual beings?  

Welcome to 2010! January is always a great time of the year, you're basically still full from Thanksgiving and Christmas and you're totally rested from your Christmas break and just to top it all off you have the promise of an exciting new year ahead of you. Doesn't get much better than that does it? Well I got some news that just might make the new year a little better. Starting this Wednesday we'll be starting a new series titled "Messy Spirituality" which we will tie in with our new Sunday series titled "Messiest People of the Bible" these are both going to be awesome series that you are not going to want to miss. Looking forward to seeing you guys for the first time in 2010!