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September 19, 2011
Thanks to all who helped out at the Enormous Activities Fair, and all those who stopped by and signed up! As a reminder, we will be having different events through this week, and encourage you all to check them out.
Tuesday: BBQ @ Veteran Park 4-7pm
Wednesday: Beach Night 5-10pm
Thursday: Bowling & Dessert 8-11pm
All events will leave from Sunset Turnaround.
We will also have people waiting at Covel, 15 minutes before each event to escort you if you don’t know where Sunset Turnaround is. Look for the blue sign saying “Crossroads Campus Ministry”
Hope to see you all soon!
May 20, 2011
SPEAKER: Greg Meeks
Running for the Prize: Listening to God
Update: Sorry I haven’t been updating the blog with the messages! I have all of the mp3s minus a couple but stay tuned for a mega post with an entire list of links to sermons we’ve heard from our amazing speakers at CCM! God bless!
May 11, 2011
Prayer Requests: May 5, 2011
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That I will be able to lay my own wants down and sacrifice as a servant like Jesus calls us to be. It’s hard to do when I feel I deserve reparations for what was done but I know in my heart my decision was the right one and I need strength to pull through.
Please pray for God to break down my fears and lack of trust in other people, so that I may open myself up to love and be loved by others. Pray for intimacy, vulnerability, and selflessness. Thank you.
Spiritually, I have been feeling drained. I have trouble just opening the Word and reading. Even prayers feel like nothing. Please rejuvenate me.
In this busiest quarter that I am going through, I still go through emotional situations and stressful times where I completely exhaust myself. But God has been promising me the better days to come and in the midst of this crazy year, I’ve had times when I felt at peace like I’ve never had before and come to God. Please continue to pray for my journey to the end of this school year as I push myself and just have it out there all I’ve got.
I pray that everyone in CCM stays strong in God and be closer to each other as a family so we can rely on each other.
Things have been good this week. Life is still difficult and things may not be going my way but I believe in you Lord. I do not want circumstances to change my love and faith in you. One of the spiritual gifts I desire is faith and compassion. I feel as if they are connected- if I don’t have faith in you, how can I understand others when I do not even understand what you did for me(John 3:16). I want to fully trust you and be there for others. I pray all this in your name and I know it’s good. All good. Amen
Diligence; bible study/accountability group@ church; whether or not to move churches
Urgency to act; to rejoice always; empathy
For my surgery incision to heal like its supposed to..; to get back into scripture with diligence; to trust God more
I pray that I can truly live a life of love. Lately I’ve been doing kind things just because I know that’s how I should live, but not because my heart is truly in it. I also pray for discipline in reading your Word, God, and that I would truly have a passion for the truth. I pray that my heart would be cleased of all the jealously I’ve been harboring. I know it’s wrong but sometimes it feels like I can’t help it. I pray that I can place 100% of my trust in you, Lord, especially in academics this quarter. I feel like I’ve been studying so hard yet the grades just don’t turn out how I want them to.
February 11, 2011
SPEAKER: Adam Johnson (ANC)
Walking By the Spirit Series: Gentleness
• Gentleness is the Bible’s forgotten fruit just as pawpaw is the forgotten fruit in America
• Gentleness was and is central to the character of Christ
• In 1 Corinthians 4:21, Paul asks if the people would rather him come with a rod of discipline or gentleness
• Gentleness is not hard, loud, or harsh
• 1 Peter 3:15 – But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect
• Tones of anger or loudness will hardly ever advance the kingdom or the gospel
• To be gentle is to be respectful, it is to have a quiet answer for our adversaries, a loving response for our enemies
• It is so easy to substitute outer vigor for inner devotion
• Gentleness is soft
• Galatians 6:1 – Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.
• Gentleness actively reaches out and touches a hurting and broken world
Areas we struggle in with gentleness
• For brothers, on the basketball court we become obscenely worldly, we need to be more gentle on the court
• For sisters, your beauty shouldn’t come from outward adornment; rather it should be that of your inner self. The unfading beauty of a gentle spirit should never be replaced.
APPLICATION
• How can we be more gentle people?
• Instead of always asking the Lord to help us be more faithful, passionate, we should remember to also ask for gentleness
• Let us not be hate-spewing preachers
• Who are the gentle people you know in your lives? What makes them so gentle? What is it about their behavior and demeanor that makes them so gentle?
• In what situations do we need to show more gentleness?
February 5, 2011
SPEAKER: Danny Roh (Living Hope Community Church)
Walking By the Spirit Series: Faithfulness
• A person who is led by the spirit is faithful, is loyal, is counted on to fulfill their responsibilities
– Even when it’s hard, uncomfortable, or when they don’t feel like doing it anymore
• Epitome of faithfulness in the Bible: Jeremiah
– a prophet who was reluctant to do God’s work because he probably suffered physically/emotionally more than any other prophet
– Also known as the “weeping prophet”
• FOUR THINGS WE SAY WHEN WE WANT TO GIVE UP
• Jeremiah 1:4-10
– The Call of Jeremiah: 4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” 6 “Alas, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.” 7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD. 9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
• Reason #1: We say “It’s not for me, I don’t feel like I’m qualified to do this”
• Response: There are times that God calls us to do things we may not want to do, but instead of saying “it’s not for me, you’ve got the wrong guy” we should say “I don’t think it’s for me, but I will follow anyway”
• Reason #2: It’s too hard
• God gave him a message of rebuke to tell others
• Jeremiah 38:14, 17-18
– Zedekiah Questions Jeremiah Again: 14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
– 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live. 18 But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.’”
• Jeremiah was thought of as a terrible villain
• He preached the same message for 40 years with nobody listening to anything he said, very discouraging, but he still did it for 40 years
• Sometimes God calls us to do things that seem strange or things that we don’t want to do
• Response: I know it’s not going to be easy, but I know God will help me along the way
• Reason #3: It’s not worth it
• Jeremiah 26:1-9
– Jeremiah Threatened With Death: 1 Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD: 2 “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the LORD’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the LORD. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word. 3 Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. 4 Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: If you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you, 5 and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened), 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse[a] among all the nations of the earth.’” 7 The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD. 8 But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, “You must die! 9 Why do you prophesy in the LORD’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 38: Jeremiah gets out of prison and gets thrown into a cistern (a well) right after where it was cold and dark. Out of the well he got put under house arrest.
• Jeremiah 42-43: after being freed from house arrest, the Jews ask Jeremiah what to do. He says don’t run off to Egypt. But they did anyways because they thought he was working for the Babylonians. They bound him and took him to Egypt with them.
• So many times Jeremiah was thrown under physical turmoil. It se
• Response: I know the cost will be great, but the cause will make it worthwhile
• Reason #4: It’s too restricting
• Jeremiah 16:1-4
– Day of Disaster: 1Then the word of the LORD came to me: 2 “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.” 3 For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: 4 “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”
• God tells Jeremiah not to get married
• Jeremiah 16:5-9
– Wasn’t allowed to mourn with others at a funeral, party with others at festivities left out
• Sometimes God will ask us to do things of great sacrifice that will interfere with our plans and desires
• Response: These are the things that I want, but I will give them up if that is what you want me to do
• In the eyes of God, Jeremiah wasn’t a failure, he was a faithful servant
• Even though it gave him so much suffering, he was faithful to the end
• God wants us to be faithful to whatever He has called us to
• If God wasn’t faithful, we would still be in sin
• If Jesus wasn’t faithful, we would not be saved by the cross
APPLICATION
• We are called to be students, to study a certain major so that we can be an influencer in that particular area after we graduate. Therefore, be faithful in little things, especially here as a student in UCLA
• Be faithful even when the emotional toll becomes too big, even when the cost seems high
• See what God has called you to do, even if it is something you don’t want to do, be faithful
• Don’t be afraid of things getting in the way of your personal plans, God has even GREATER plans for you
• Don’t worry about the things that will oppress you, just be faithful to God
January 29, 2011
SPEAKER: Justin McKitterick (Grace Community Church)
Walking By the Spirit Series: Patience
Message: Are We There Yet?
• We aren’t impatient with our circumstances, we are impatient with God
o We say, “God, I don’t like this pain, I don’t like this feeling”
• Are you patient or impatient…
o When you don’t get our own way?
o When others make mistakes?
o When others are slow to understand?
o When others don’t respect you the way you want?
o When others rebuke you?
o When others won’t leave you alone?
o When others won’t change when you want them to change?
• Impatience: When you are unwilling to wait
• Patience: capable of waiting
• Biblical definition of patience: ideas of endurance, forbearance, Godly tolerance, gentleness, considerateness, selflessness, graciousness
• Patience is a MASSIVE issue to God
• Patience isn’t about circumstances, that is just the byproduct
o Patience or impatience directly relates to our relationship with God
THE SINFUL ROOTS IN MANIFESTATIONS OF IMPATIENCE
• Impatience is not a loner, it has many friends that also beat you up
o Friends: anger, irritability, laziness, doubt, procrastination, stress, thanklessness, deficiency in understanding of God
o They feed and provoke each other
o The name of this gang: sin
• Blood was shed on the cross for impatience
• When you are impatient with others, you are saying: You are inconveniencing my universe
• When you shake up a can of soda, it’ll get fizzy. But if you wait, the fizz calms down.
o Just like a can of soda, we’re so prone to blowing up, or letting impatience brew up in our hearts until we explode
o We need to settle this before the Lord, we can’t let a circumstance bring us to sin
• Proverbs 29:11 A fool always loses his temper
• God promises Abraham a son and blessings to him and his family.
o Abraham got old and he and Sarah began to doubt out of patience
o As a result he had a son, Ishmael, with Hagar out of his impatience. Ishmael’s lineage has been a thorn to Israel to this day.
• At the root of impatience, we are like children throwing temper tantrums in our hearts because God doesn’t give us our way
• We are impatient because there is a lack of trust and belief in God
GODLY RESPONSE AND MOTIVATION OF PATIENCE
• What motivates and stimulates us to be patient?
• In Exodus 4:36 we know God is patient
• 1 Timothy 1:12-14 \\ I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• Romans 2:4 \\ do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
• God is immensely patient with us
• We should not take it for granted
• Natural manifestation is to be patient with others because God is patient with us
• God is trustworthy
• We abuse the phrase, you just need to trust God, but we understand very little of what that means
• Psalms talks about waiting on God, because He has a plan, even in the midst of the struggles of relationships, finances
o Psalm 33:20
o Psalm 37:7
o Psalm 41
o Psalm 25:3
o Psalm 62:1
o Psalm 62:5
o Psalm 30:18
• We all have destinations in our lives we want to reach; sometimes we want to just cross the street without looking both ways. But God is trying to protect us
o When He says wait, we need to wait and trust. Because He knows what he’s doing
• In light of the reality that God is patient and trustworthy, what is our reaction?
• In Proverbs 3:5 & 6 we get the idea that we must trust in the Lord with all our hearts, in traffic jams and class, with our roommates, in trials and in joys.
• We should not try to speed up things on our own. Don’t get anxious, because we don’t have everything figured out. God has much bigger plans than you or I EVER will
• Would God say you are impatient?
APPLICATION:
• Fill your minds with Scripture to combat impatience
• God is not making mistakes, He works in spite of our sin
• Challenge: sit down with your roommate, ask them “Am I impatient? What parts of me are?”
• Think of God’s patience towards you
• When you are getting impatient, think about being thankful instead of being a problem
• Think and pray before you respond. Is it worth acting like this
• Confess your patience and enjoy grace
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
• What are the areas of impatience that you struggle with?
• What is one area, you need to repent in, and grow and honor Christ?
January 25, 2011
October 5, 2010
E-mail Elizabeth Cho (echoeyes@gmail.com) or John Jaemin Lee (johnjle3@gmail.com) to sign up for small groups!!! Or you can sign up at the general meeting!
Our weekly general meeting is this Thursday (again!!) at 7PM in Kinsey 1220B!!!
See you there!
September 21, 2010
These are our zero week event schedule!
Veteran Park BBQ (Tuesday, 9/21): Sunset Rec Turnaround @ 4:00PM!
Beach Night (Wednesday, 9/22): Sunset Rec Turnaround @ 3:45PM!
Bowling & dessert (Thursday, 9/23): Sunset Rec Turnaround @ 9:00PM!
And!!!
First General Meeting (Thursday, 9/30): Kinsey 1220B @ 7:00PM!
Dormers meet at sproul turnaround at 6:30PM!
*Please bring money!!! Try to bring smaller changes! But it’s okay if you don’t! 
Bring jacket to park & beach since the weather will be quite cold.
Hope to see all of you there!
