Teens and Sexting

Dr. Drew recently devoted time on his HLN show to sexting. Click here for a link to radicalparenting.com, one of the featured websites on the show. You'll find a couple of blog posts, as well as facts regarding teens and sexting.

Julie

The 411 for May 29, 2011

Houston MT, Update #2

Dear Houston MT Missionaries:

We seem to be having on-and-off email issues at Ridgecrest. Below, please find the email that Nate has been trying to send you for the past few hours. The only part that is missing is the information about the Boone house. Because of privacy issues, we don't want to publish directions to their house or their address or their phone number. I'm sure the Boones would prefer this over a bunch of strangers showing up for supper one evening.

Please email Nate or Julie for more Boone information.

Julie


Team,

I’ve attached a photo tour of the Houston MT (photos below). You’ll see the front of the Mosque, the Buddhist temple, a possible apartment complex ministry site, the kitchen at the Faith Center and bedrooms at the Faith Center. I hope this gives you some idea of where we are going!

Scheduling...
We will leave at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 7. You can arrive as early as 7:30 a.m. to load the bus. This will help us get to Houston by the evening hours so we can shower at Houston’s First on the way to the Faith Center. Please pack a carry-on bag with needed shower items.

Apartment Ministry...
I’ll send you an additional email with assignments to have ready for Sunday night’s training.

Training this Sunday...
Training is at the Boone house. We will start at 6:30 p.m. and be done at 8 p.m. Please arrive between 6:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. so we can start right away. Weather permitting, please wear clothes similar to what you will wear for the apartment ministry while in Houston.

Prayer...
Please pray for the students and sponsors going on this trip. Pray for safety, spiritual growth and preparation. Pray for those who we will minister to in Houston. Pray for our bus drivers, their families and safety for all.

Check the blog at rbcparents.blogspot.com.

Nate

10 Things Submission is Not

by Jennifer Smidt

1. Simply or singularly a marriage issue
Submission is God’s design. It is a reflection of the interaction within the Trinity. Whether single or married, submission is a core heart issue revealing one’s dependence upon God. For a wife, it demonstrates her willingness to yield to her husband’s lead in obedience and belief of God’s covenant to her.

2. Degrading
Women have been lured into believing that submission is somehow humiliating. It does not bestow second-class status. It was Christ’s glory to submit to his father’s plan of redemption for his children; it is a wife’s glory to submit to God’s plan of provision and protection for her life

3. Silent
When submission is depicted as voiceless oppression, both men and women lose. God declared that men need help and to leave them without our prayerful input is to deny them help – the very thing God declared they need. Submission uses her voice to speak words of grace and life into her husband’s life.

4. Fearful
A fearful woman will have a very hard time submitting to her husband. A fearful woman isn’t actively trusting God with her life which makes entrusting a man with your future nearly impossible. Submission to Christ frees a woman from fear as she rests in God’s character and provision for her delivered through her husband.

5. Joyless
A joyless wife is an ungrateful wife. Submission says, as Jesus did, “Not my will but yours be done.” There is great joy found in doing the will of God. Even in the most difficult of circumstances, joy bubbles out of a heart that is thankful to God for who he is and what he gives.

6. Stifling
When submissive women are portrayed as stunted or limited in their freedom, they are being lied about. Submission is a safe place of protection where we are able to express our gifts and creativity for the glory of God and benefit of our marriages.

7. Dumb
It is not a dumb thing to do, nor does it make you dumb. There is no “I get to check my brain at the door because he is in charge" thinking as the world often portrays. Submission is the response of an intelligent woman who knows her Bible and believes that God’s design is best.

8. Weak
Submissive women are not mousy. They will not settle for doormat status. The posture of submission is strength willingly placed under the authority of another. Our husbands need our best. Our best is the power that comes from Christ alone as we depend on him to embody Christlikeness to our men.

9. Automatic
A submissive spirit does not kick in the moment you say, “I do”. It is a heart response that all women begin to cultivate as we submit to Christ first. Wives will have their hearts exposed in the area of submission to God. A wife who submits cheerfully and graciously to her husband will always have at her core a heart knelt in submission to Christ.

10. Self-Focused
A truly submissive heart doesn’t need to be concerned with taking care of herself. The submitted heart does not ask, “What’s in it for me?” but rather, “How can I serve God and my husband with my life?”

Houston MT Update #1

Dear Houston MT missionaries:

Check your email inbox in the next few days for your latest news and updates from Nate. I can tell you, in my "Dancing with the Stars" host voice, that the departure time has been confirmed. Departure time on June 7 is 8 a.m. We will begin loading buses at 7:15 a.m.

Five about Houston, Texas
1. Houston is the fourth most populous city and is among the youngest populations in the nation.
2. More than 80 languages are spoken in the Houston area.
3. Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world.
4. Houston boasts more than 8,000 restaurants, which represent more than 35 countries and American regions.
5. Apollo 13 was filmed in Houston, as was Armageddon, RoboCop 2 and Terms of Endearment

See houstontx.gov and visithoustontexas.com for more

Questions

Julie

The 411 for May 15, 2011