, but, as I stood and looked at the enormous gathering of my brothers and sisters from around the world; praying and singing in the any of the several evening worship times, walking by the hundreds in the convention center hallways, conversing and eating in any of the scores of restaurants around Indianapolis, I was reminded of the personal yet corporate nature of the Church. Paul spoke several times in his letters about the Church as body, designed and built up to be in mutual service to one another and to Christ as the head (Rom. 12: 4-8; 1 Cor. 12:12-31; Eph. 2:11-22). Outside of the body, we whither up and die. And yet, Jesus often spoke of the value of each person individually. Whether through the parable of the lost sheep or the parable of the ten coins, Jesus made it clear each one is of eternal value and worthy of God's full love and compassion.
And, thus, we find the reality of this dichotomy: that each one is of infinite worth, yet, we are only actualized in our gifting, potential, and purpose through service in the Body of Christ. God's love for each individual is boundless and whole. Yet, that love is made manifest, both in receiving and reciprocating, only in the context of the Body.
So today, as you go about your activities and routines, remember His Body. In all of its weaknesses and imperfections, it is the conduit of forgiveness, redemption, and revelation; and the object of the Love of the Father. And, it is being joined together piece by piece into a holy building with Christ as its cornerstone. Christ has sought us out, each one by one, not so that we can live a life of holiness apart from the messiness of the Body, but so that His holiness might be the mortar that holds us together in the midst of the messiness. And we look forward to the day when we as the first fruits of the new creation will experience the full redemption of all creation and the Body will be actualized as His bride, preserved blameless for His coming.
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The Vista COTN participated in the "One Heart Many Hands" the 2 weeks before General Assembly in Kansas City. The team remodeled a kitchen, a bathroom, and constructed a wheelchair ramp for a victim of a stroke. The owner had been confined to a care center for six months and returned to his home for the first time the day the team finished. It was a jubilant moment coupled with tears and the song, It is Well with My Soul. Thanks to Craig Gunter, crew leader and Rev. Matt Palm of Vista Nazarene.. Please RSVP to Jeremy by Saturday, July 29th.!
If you are involved in Children's Ministry at your local church and are not connected to your peers throughout Southern California, please like So Cal Naz Kids Connection and So Cal Naz Kids Camp on Facebook. Use the site to send your updated email and contact information to Karisa May and I will seek your input, share your events, and keep you abreast of all the latest district news. For additional information or connection write to socalnazkids@gmail.com
Next up: Children's Camp July 24-28, Alpine $295.
Youth summer camps are coming up and we have all the information available for those wishing to go. Check out the following links below for information and registration for both Junior and Senior High summer camps.
Mid High: July 24-28 at Pine Valley Bible Conference Center. There is still room left at the late registration price: $320. Click HERE for information and registration)
Sr. High: July 30-Aug 3 at Palomar Christian Conference Center. There is still room left at the late registration price: $320. but you can still register at the late registration price: $290. For more info and registration, visit socalnazkidscamp.com or email info@socalnazkidscamp.com and clickSince the beginning of the twentieth century, some of the most forceful accounts of modernity have located the traumatic shocks of war, urbanization, and technological change at the heart of modern experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock and rupture has obscured a nineteenth-century conception of surprise, which transformed models of mind and narrative on both sides of the Atlantic. I draw on Ralph Waldo Emerson's formulation of life as "a series of surprises" to distinguish a paradigm of surprise from Walter Benjamin's influential definition of modernity as a "series of shocks and collisions." For Emerson, the fact that we live in an uncertain universe of chance requires moment-by-moment exposure to contingency. The challenge, as he framed it, was to invent new forms of living and writing that allow the unexpected to amplify rather than deaden receptivity, to enrich rather than impoverish experience. "Surprise," one of Emerson's "lords of life," guided such American writers as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, but also Benjamin's shock poets par excellence--Baudelaire and Proust. Each translates Emerson's central question--How do I live so that every moment is new?--into compositional terms, to ask: How do I write so that every sentence is new? Their widely various responses to the Emersonian call hinge on unexpected syntactical and scenic turns that reorient attention and restructure narrative form. My chapters locate surprise in Proust's and Baudelaire's techniques for collapsing timelessness with the ephemeral (modernist methods I trace back to Emerson's "method of nature"); in the lacunae that lodge between past and future tenses in James's scenes of recognition; in Stein's cultivation of fresh grammars of attention; and in Larsen's challenge to Anglo-American master plots that deadeningly dovetail with the deterministic logic of race and reproduction. Each writer's dedication to renewal--temporal, psychic, grammatical, narrative--reframes the present as an open site of experiential and experimental possibility. Beyond representing surprise, the writers of this study are dedicated to training new habits of attention to the unpredictable events that punctuate daily life. In this endeavor, they join psychologists William James and Silvan Tomkins in theorizing surprise as a sudden event that both arrests and spurs processes of feeling and thinking. The literary subject of each chapter is a theorist of emotion and modern experience who exercises a capacity to express as well as enact the aesthetic and psychic dimensions of surprise.Comments from the Agentur fÃ¼r Erneuerbare Energien (Agency on Renewable Energies) on the economic aspects of raising food crops for conversion into ethanol based fuels are presented. The author offers statistics on the amounts of grain converted to fuel in 2012, discusses the effects of the 2012 drought in the U.S. on the production of fuel crops, and the future of corn cultivation for ethanol production is examined.
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