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Fall Retreats

Guys Retreat - Nov 20-22

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Hume Medical Release

Girls Retreat - Nov 20-22

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Rapel/ZIp Line release

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PCC HSM HOUSE (formerly epic)

Wednesday 09/09/09 only comes once in a lifetime

7-9pm @ Fellowship

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bowl-a-thon @ amf 11/22

9am to noon...click here for details

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Do Ducks have Lips is a fun mall scavenger hunt where teams search Stanford Shopping Center to find people dressed up in costumes throughout the mall. This year we are taking it a step further by including puzzles and clues to take you step by step in finding the grand prize! High School Students... this includes FRESHMAN you won’t want to miss it!!

The Details

August 14th, 2009

5:45pm at PCC Skate Ramp

Leaving PCC at 6pm Sharp

Returning at 9pm

Meet at the PCC Skate Ramp @ 5:45pm where you will receive your mission packet.

We will then drive to Stanford Shopping Center and meet where indicated on map on permission slip (by the red van). We will briefly go over rules and get started!

What you need

$6 for your official Do Ducks Have Lips team

t-shirt and gas to get there and your permission slip.

Download Do Ducks Have Lips Flyer_Permission Slip

Please have your T-shirt size on your permission slip and hand in to Michele or Carlos ASAP and RSVP on our Facebook group "Students of PCC." (Must have a Facebook account to RSVP if you don't please email Michele at michelec@me.com)

Pay $8 and also go to Surf and Pray the next day Saturday August 15th!

PARENTS, WE NEED DRIVERS!

If you would like to volunteer your time or vehicle to drive our group out to Stanford Shopping Center please let us know!

Download Do Ducks Have Lips Flyer_Permission Slip

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the pretender

After 8 days together with many of you It was real to see the community and family that emerged. I contend that we can thank the putting-aside-of-who-we're-not-in-exchange-for-God-has-created-us-to-be
for this happening. With that in mind it seamed fitting to discuss how truth has found it's way into culture once again in the vehicle of the Foo Fighter's song "The Pretender":

"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

Keep in mind how the thinking Christ-follower is to approach truth in culture:

"Three Important Questions
Ed Stetzer, a church planter and missiologist, has developed three insightful questions to ask as we engage our culture through a biblical worldview and wade through the many complexities of being sent by Jesus to reach the world:

o What aspects of culture do we receive?
o What aspects of culture do we reject?
o What aspects of culture do we redeem?

These questions take into account that God created all things good, but that sin has twisted, marred and stained all of creation. Thus, the question of whether to accept certain aspects of culture is rarely straight-forward, but must be looked at carefully as there are components that we are able to accept, some that we reject, and many that we are able to redeem. This is the task of every Christian who has been changed by Jesus and joins him on his mission of reaching the world for the gospel. Thus, each month we “Engage” in order to help students think as missionaries, view the culture through a biblical worldview, and develop a heart for joining Jesus as he carries out his work of redemption."

Jesus spoke about forgiveness in Matthew 18:23-25. His statement that just as the Father has forgiven us so must forgive others stands in apposition to the cultural idea that we withhold forgiveness and therefor have power over the one who caused us pain. So what do think?

What aspects of the Pretender do we reject?
What aspects do we receive?
What aspects do we redeem?

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apologize

Over 22 million request have made it clear Apologize(Timbaland and OneRepublic) is ab incredible hit. Making it apparent that the theme of this song people relate with - which mainly revolve around the idea that at some point, it is too late to apologize and make things right again.

I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say
But I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down
But wait...
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around and say..

That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late...

When it comes to entertainment and culture how are followers of Christ to respond? Mars Hill Proxy, a student ministry in Seattle engages this crucial question as follows:

"Three Important Questions
Ed Stetzer, a church planter and missiologist, has developed three insightful questions to ask as we engage our culture through a biblical worldview and wade through the many complexities of being sent by Jesus to reach the world:

o What aspects of culture do we receive?
o What aspects of culture do we reject?
o What aspects of culture do we redeem?

These questions take into account that God created all things good, but that sin has twisted, marred and stained all of creation. Thus, the question of whether to accept certain aspects of culture is rarely straight-forward, but must be looked at carefully as there are components that we are able to accept, some that we reject, and many that we are able to redeem. This is the task of every Christian who has been changed by Jesus and joins him on his mission of reaching the world for the gospel. Thus, Proxy is launching “Engage” in order to help students think as missionaries, view the culture through a biblical worldview, and develop a heart for joining Jesus as he carries out his work of redemption."

Jesus spoke about forgiveness in Matthew 18:23-25. His statement that just as the Father has forgiven us so must forgive others stands in apposition to the cultural idea that we withhold forgiveness and therefor have power over the one who caused us pain. So what do think?

What aspects of Apologize do we reject?
What aspects do we receive?
What aspects do we redeem?

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never settling

When Miracles become mundane
John 5:1-9Jerusalem¹Afterward, Jesus returned to for one of the Jewish holy days. ²Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. ³Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. ⁵One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?"
⁷"I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me."

⁸Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!"

⁹Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking!

It’s easy to PURSUE COMFORT
It’s easy to MAKE NON-CHRIST-FOLLOWING EXCUSES
It’s easy to MISS MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES

Truths that require action . . .

1. Respond to God’s CALL ON YOUR LIFE.

2. Identify your pool OF HURT.

3. Ditch the EXCUSES.

The question isn’t whether people are hurting…the real question is whether healed people have the courage to help those who are hurting because they’ve been healed by the Great Physician.

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