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I have some good news to share with you! After a lot of prayer I have accepted a new position as the Teaching Pastor for Double Oak Community Church in Birmingham, AL. I will still be a traveling speaker and will be traveling most of the year, but now I will be splitting time on the road with Double Oak. I'm really excited to have this opportunity to pour into a consistent community. After 14 years on the road I truly need a place to call home as I continue to travel and preach. What does this mean for you? Well, I will still be speaking at camps and conferences and DNows so be sure to come see me where you can! It will mean though that over the next few years I will not have as many open slots as I used to. So be sure to plan early and get me on the calendar quick if you have specific dates you're planning an event for. And if you're here in Birmingham and need a church home, come see us at Double Oak! The other added bonus is that I'll have a steady stream of new recordings for the podcast, so if you're not in Bham you can still keep up with what the Lord is teaching me. Please be praying for me as I add this new responsibility to the ministry God has given me.
Last summer I made it a point to ask how many people in the crowd had been saved for three years or longer. I then asked those people who responded if they had read the New Testament all the way through. I'm sad to say that on average only about 10-20% of those people said that they had. In a country where our literacy rate is high and we all have easy access to a Bible in multiple translations this is a staggering discovery. So I challenged that crowd to read the New Testament over the next three months. Maybe you took that challenge. Maybe you want to start. If so I wanted to provide you with some resources to help you. Click here for some help getting started or restarting your journey through the Bible.
If you're watching what I'm watching you can see that the situation in Haiti is grave. After being on the ground in Port au Prince I can tell you that the situation was bad before the earthquake. This is a nightmare. But the Lord is moving and there are men and women of God on the ground to help. And you can help them. If you are looking for a place to give relief money to let me suggest 2 places, one holistic and one specific. 1) The Global Orphan Project. These are the C3 Missions guys that got me to Haiti in the first place. During the last catastrophe they beat the Red Cross in getting aid to the people quickly. They're smart, connected, and they love the Lord. They have also made a commitment to use 100% of any donation for relief. No overhead. They cover it. Which means every single penny you give helps the Haitians in Jesus' name. They're working in a lot of different places in Haiti so holistically this is the best way to help in this evolving crisis. Give Here to the Global Orphan Emergency Relief Fund. 2) The Mission of Hope. If you're looking for a specific place to camp out you should give here. Chuck Hooten and I saw this place firsthand last February and I can honestly say it's one of the most amazing Christian projects I've ever seen. It's legit. They were ministering to over 1500o people daily in food aid and teaching over 1300 kids daily in their school. As of now they seem to be OK but damage reports have not come in./ But we have no clue at this point about all the kids, especially the students living in Port au Prince. These people have earned the right to share the name of Christ by consistently loving the Haitians for over a decade Give here to the Mission of Hope.
At long last our latest Journey project is here. We've been wanting to jump into the Old Testament for a while now and with Volume 6 we finally have accomplished that goal. Most of us remember Jonah as that guy on a felt board in Vacation Bible School who gets swallowed by a whale. But there's a whole lot more going on in this prophet's life than his problems with marine animals. Jonah is a story for anyone who has wrestled with running away from God. It tackles love for outsiders, what to do when we don't want to follow God, and the unbelievable depths of God's love for us. If you've never heard a Journey project before this is a great place to start. And if you've been a faithful follower of the Journey over the years you'll definitely want to add this to your collection. They're getting better and better. Check it out in the store now!
It's time for a new kind of event. In addition to my typical preaching and teaching read about some of the new things I've been experimenting with lately.
The Gospel is not an intellectual exercise. It's an adventure that is meant to be lived out in the very world you live in. The challenge and needs are real. Read more.... Follow these links to get involved today! Mission of Hope Haiti (www.missionofhopehaiti.org) C3 Missions (www.c3missions.org) International Justice Mission (www.ijm.org) Compassion International (www.compassion.com)
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I really need you to read this book. I cannot tell you how many people have asked me to try and help them figure out what God is telling them to do. It's an honest quesiton from honest hearts. I've tried to find out the same thing myself. But what if we're making this a little more complicated than it is? What if we're not going to get a specific direction for every decision in our lives? Kevin DeYoung has done us a favor in this little book in walking us through just how to discern God's will in most situations. For anyone in their teens or early 20s trying to figure out the major questions of life (Where do I go to school? What should I do? Who should I marry?) this will be a very freeing book. And it won't take you long to read it. It's only 120 pages and they're tiny pages at that. No excuses! Get reading!
(c) 2005 Adam Robinson