About Us

A community of young adults, college students, recent grads, young marrieds, etc. who gather every other week to fellowship, enjoy each other's company, have fun, and spur each other into living our lives in the light of the Christ's gospel!

We are connected with Spokane Valley Bible Church but please feel free to join us even if you are not a member of our church.

CJs - A little more than a swing night

Song of Solomon

Many of you are at that age when dating and marriage is on your mind. If you have questions or uncertain what God says about this subject, you are in luck.

VBC is going through this book during sunday school at 11pm, which focus' on this very subject. If you can't make it or want more visit the site below and listen to Mark Driscoll.

http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/the-peasant-princess

If you have any questions/concerns and need to talk to someone about dating (am I ready, what do I look for), or marriage (how do I know I am ready, what do I do to prepare for marriage), please don't hesitate to contact me.

Romans

We are starting a new study this fall/winter on the book of Romans. This will go along side what Ben is preaching each week.

Here is my challenge for all of us:

I would like for us to have read the whole book at least once each week and then study the verses for the week. As we study we need to keep in mind the verses we are studying is part of a bigger picture and we need to keep that in perspective. Along with the study we will have a memory verse or two at the most. This will be a key point in the verses we are studying. For the first section Romans 1:1-17, will be broken up into 3 parts (1-7, 8-15, 16-17) and verses 16 & 17 will be our memory verses for this section. That will give you three weeks to memorize the two verses.

Why:

We are all adults now and have some higher education under our belts lets not let our minds go to waste but more importantly we are Christians and as such we have a call to grow in maturity. We are called to move away from being spooned fed, so I'll give you resources if you need it but will not hold your hand through the study. If you don't know how to study this will be a great time to learn, email or call me and I'll teach you how.

How:

This may seem like a lot but if we break this down you can do this by spending 30minutes a day. The book is 16 chapters which will take you about an hour and a half to read through, so you can break this up into half an hour parts. That will take 3 days, that means you have 3 more days to study. Use this as your quiet times if you "don't have time".

Karmen's Wedding

The Happy couple
We are so happy for both of you.

Unplugged 7/19/2009

This weekend looks like it is going to be a great time to be outside. We will meet at the church at 5pm and head off to CDA to cool off by the lake and have some dessert at Dockside.

Our Discussion:
Hebrews 10:23-25 tells us to not forsake asembling together.
Here are some questions to be asking but don't limit yourself:
What does this look like?
To what point does this become legalistic?
What is the purpose?

Reproof and unconditional love

I have been reading The excellent Wife by Martha Peace and many parts have been convicting, but this one part really stuck out to me this week. The section is about reproof and showing unconditional love to your husband through giving it and receiving it in a gentle, humble, loving manner. If you are not married and reading this it still applies, other people in your life show you your weaknesses and we need to respond to them in a gentle and humble manner. The bible says that we are to help our brothers and sisters in Christ become more like Christ and one of the ways of doing that is to point out the faults and sin to them. It is hard to do this in love, but it is even harder to receive it humble and lovingly. The book gives 4 ways we respond and bible verse showing those are not biblical, they are as follows:

1. You become angry and lash out at them.

Through presumption(pride) come nothing but strife, but with those who receive counsel is wisdom. Prov. 13:10

2. You feel hurt, resentful, and unforgiving.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God is Christ also has forgiven you. Eph. 4:31-32

3. You focus on the things he is doing wrong.
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. Mathew 7:5

4. You suffer intense personal hurt.
...He (God) disciplines us for the good, that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet those who have been trained by it afterwords it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Hebrews 12:10-11 emphasis added.

When we do not respond with humility and gentleness when someone reproves us, then we are sinning. Even if the person who is reproving you is doing it in an angry, unkind manner, you are still responsible before God for your actions(how you respond.) So I urge everyone to work on receiving reproof in a loving, gently, humble way this week.