Good afternoon ministry partner team!
I hope you all are doing well. The summer moves slower than the school year for campus ministry. With a slower pace I’ve enjoyed time to meet with some of you guys, with family, and longer, mor relaxed times with students.
We’re still meeting each week for our Fellowship Nights through the summer! We still have several meetings left and love visitors if any of you are interested in joining us. We meet every Thursday at 7:30pm in Richardson. Please let me know if you’re like to join! Or join our livestream: https://m.twitch.tv/utdfocus/home
I don’t have many photos from the summer, but here’s a few:
I got time with one of our students from UTA a few weeks ago and me and got together these girls to celebrate an a birthday.
Something else I’ve been doing this summer is listening to the BEMA podcast. The host, Marty Solomon, walks you through scripture from an Eastern rather than a Western perspective since the Jewish people would have understood scripture with Eastern eyes. I’ve been learning a lot and would recommend giving it a listen! Here’s a link to an episode I found especially meaningful: https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/26
From the podcast I’ve been learning the importance of Sabbath rest in the Hebrew Scriptures as we see God know when he has crated enough and rests. And we see this theme repeated in scripture over and over again even as God takes the Israelites out of Egypt, where their worth was found in how many bricks they could make for the Egyptian empire each day, and leads them to the dessert where he speaks to them and shepherds them and commands them to take a day of rest each week because their worth is found in the fact that they are loved not in what they can produce. So the day of rest is a reminder of God’s love for us.
In the spirit of rest, I included a scripture to meditate over. This scripture reminds me and inspires me to be immersed in the scripture and to be in prayer:
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
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