Let’s Talk About Practice

Speaker: Josh Bingtan
Topic: The Rested Soul

Opportunity Cost:

• The value of what is given up when making a .
• When you say to one thing, it is the value of what you said “no” to.

 In today’s culture, rest feels almost incompatible with .

Matthew 11:28, 30 NIV
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest… you will find rest for your souls.

Mark 8:26 NLT
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

Speaker: Laura Horton
Topic: Work as Partnership with God
Finding Purpose in the Mundane

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV
In the Lord, your labor is not in vain.

Colossians 3:23-24 NIV95
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Proverbs 11:10 NIV
When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices.

“There may be no better way to love your neighbor, whether you are writing parking tickets, software or books, than to simply do your work… The Christian worker or business leader who has experienced God’s grace—who knows “you are not your own; you were bought at a price” (1 Cor 6:19-20)—is free to honor God, love neighbors, and serve the common good through work.” –Tim Keller, Every Good Endeavor

Speaker: Justin Flick
Topic: Why Community Matters

Digital Babylon draws us towards an culture.

“Ancient Babylon was the pagan-but-spiritual, hyper-stimulated, multicultural, imperial crossroads that became the unwilling home of Judean exiles, including the prophet Daniel, in the sixth century BCE. But digital Babylon is not a physical pace. It is the pagan-but-spiritual, hyper-stimulated, multicultural, imperial crossroads that is the virtual home of every person with Wi-Fi or a data plan.” –Faith for Exiles by David Kinnaman & Mark Matlock

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

See also: Acts 2:42-47, Ephesians 4:15-16, 1 John 4:11-13

Speaker: Nora Holoyohoy
Topic: Who said that?
The Rhythm of Scripture

Psalm 119:105, The Message
By your Words I can see where I’m going; they throw a beam of light on my dark path.

Matthew 24:35 NLT
Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.

Psalm 46:10 NIV
Be still and know that I am God.

Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:5-6 NIV
Do not be afraid, for I am with you: I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘give them up!’ and to the south, ‘do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth- everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.

Psalm 33:4 NIV
For the Word of the LORD is right and true. He is faithful in all He does.

Speaker: Enoch Yeung
Topic: Living on Mission

Colossians 1:9-12 NIV
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Answer Key: decision; yes; ambition; isolated;