Spring Camping Trip

When: April 25 -27, 2008
Where: Carter Caves State Park
Cost: $32 single & $50 couples (includes cost of food, camping, Cave Tour, and travel, be sure to bring along munchies for the drive!)

Join us on our annual spring camping trip as we head east to Carter Caves State Park. It all starts Friday evening, April 25th, when we setup our campsite and lasts until Sunday, April 27th. Along with camping and cave exploring we will enjoy times of praise, prayer, and fellowship as we connect with God in the beautiful country He has created.

Carter Caves State Park:
Beneath the forested hills of this park, nature has hidden a honeycomb of numerous caves and caverns. Visitors can tour them in varied fashion from easy walking tours to down and dirty cave crawls where you’ll discover a 30-foot underground waterfall. But there’s more - as in 20 miles of hiking trails, canoe trips on lakes and rivers, fishing, boating, and horseback riding and many more surprises!

For more information please contact Josh Keesling at josh.keesling@stonewallwesleyan.com

Confession . . .

James 5:16, “therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” through a proverbial wrench into our Protestant Christian. Confession is often seen as a personal issue between God and the Christian. Coach D and the Apostle Paul take a totally different approach to confession, confession is not just letting God know, it is about becoming an authentic people within a community.

During this chapter Coach D recounts John Wesley’s thoughts on confession and how it was apart of the weekly small groups or class meetings. I wonder what the American Church would look like if every small group and Sunday school class would ask the following four questions: “What known sins have you committed since our last meeting?” “What temptations have you met with?” “How were you delivered?” “What have you thought, said, or done of which you doubt whether it be sin or not?” Confession of sins and temptations leads a Christian to deeper accountability and humility, it would appear that in the place God is able to form and shape the Christian more into the likeness of Christ.

This week I don’t want to just ask how you are practicing the spiritual discipline of confession, but how are you being formed through your practice of confession?