a2f newsletter.

happy wednesday y’all.

can’t believe it but the semester is wrapping up so soon. thankful for the warm weather. i feel like i’m saying this every week - but this past week has been a packed week. even though new eve has officially ended, it’s still continuing in spirit as the gals had a make-your-own-pizza + movie night.

noblemen fort week is under way. and i have to say - i’m loving it. it brings me back to those old college days when i was a single living with a bunch of bros and doing… a bunch of bros things (aka doing stupid things and laughing together). but we’ve been doing life together including daily 630a devotions. proud of the guys.

again - we’re ending the year off with a bang. two key events.

end of the year bible study on 5/1, friday. it’s a time we get to look back on the semester to laugh + celebrate + remember. and then we’re going to end that time with a bang. we rented out an entire field next to the corec and we wanted to have a big sports night since the weather has been warming up.

and then our senior sunday on 5/3, sunday. a time to both celebrate + hear from our seniors. please come and join us as we’ll get a time to share gratitude for the ways the seniors impacted our lives and we’ll get a chance to hear from the senior themselves as they wrap up their time here at purdue. and, of course, all of it to celebrate all that god has done in their lives and in our church.

dj.

sunday. 4/26. 12p. walc 1018.

we’ll be going back to our regular time + regular location for a2f sunday. we’re kickstarting a new post-easter message series. alive (now what?) and talking through both the incredible implications of easter but also why it doesn’t always feel that way on a personal level.

i was struck by eli in 1 samuel

here is a man who was the priest of god. he cared about god’s presence. he even spoke up when his sons were clearly in the wrong

but he never really acted.

he challenged them but only enough to ease his conscience. not enough to change anything. and in the end he tolerated what he should have confronted.

and the result was devastating. the ark was taken. israel was defeated. thirty thousand died. his sons were killed. the glory of god departed.

all connected in part to a quiet + costly passivity.

it made me stop and ask. where am i doing the same?

where have i grown comfortable with something that once would have convicted me? where am i avoiding hard conversations because it feels easier to keep the peace?

scripture says we are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. it rarely shows up all at once. it creeps slowly. quietly.

and love, real love, does not ignore that.

it speaks. it steps in. even when it is uncomfortable. even when it costs something. because what we tolerate, we do not just allow. we eventually become part of.

so where am i choosing comfort over love and calling it wisdom?

until next time.

dj.