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Sunday’s sermon on Wednesday

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Sunday’s sermon on Wednesday

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VBS day 3! #wildwoodForest

DAY 2!

DAY ONE #wildwoodForest

“The rate of sanctification is completely variable. We cannot predict how it will go. Some people, during some seasons of life, leap and bound like gazelles. Let’s say you’ve been living in flagrant sexual sins. You turn from sin to Christ; the sin disappears... For other people ( and the same people, at another season of life) sanctification is a steady, measured walk. You learn truth. You learn to serve others constructively. You build new disciplines. You learn basic life wisdom. You learn who God is, who you are, how life works. You learn to worship, pray, to give time, money, and caring. And you grow steadily—wonder of wonders! Other people (and the same people, at another season) trudge. It’s hard going. You limp. You don’t seem to get very far very fast. But if you’re trudging in the right direction, someday you will se him face to face, and you will be like him. Some people crawl on their hands and knees. Progress is painful. Praise God for the glory of his grace, you are inching in the right direction. And then there are times you aren’t moving, stuck in gridlock, broken down—but you’re still facing in the right direction.” -Christian counselor and author David Powlison

Elaine Scarry says that “real beauty seems to incite or even require replication.” Surrounding humanity with beauty is like surrounding your children with good music and good food - you form their palate so that when they are workers themselves, they have the proper pattern for their work.

The legend says that Doug Ingle drank a gallon of Red Mountain Wine and told his friend Ron Bushy about this great idea he had for a song. It was a ballad, and the riff and the words timed out at around a minute and a half. The song was called, “in a garden of Eden” but when Doug dictated on Red Mountain Wine Ron thought he said, “In a Gadda da Vida.” What became one of Iron Butterfly’s hardest hard rock songs ever was written about the Garden of Eden. And why not? The imagery is hard core. But how we understand what’s going on in the Garden often gets garbled, twisted, almost unusable.

“My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It’s a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it’s to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea. I did well in school, but deep down the whole thing’s motive wasn’t to learn or improve myself but just to do well, to get good grades and make sports teams and perform well. To have a good transcript or varsity letters to show people. I didn’t enjoy it much because I was al- ways scared I wouldn’t do well enough. The fear made me work really hard, so I’d always do well and end up getting what I wanted. But then, once I got the best grade or made All City... I wouldn’t feel much of anything except maybe fear that I wouldn’t be able to get it again.” David Foster Wallace (Oblivion)

Genesis 2.4-14