[nlcf] – a church community for Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, and Christiansburg

Archive for March, 2007

• NT Wright on Easter

  As Easter approaches, April 8th, devote some time to reflect on the resurrection. One of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, NT Wright, gave an brilliant series of lectures in Roanoke last weekend. For historical evidence on the resurrection, listen …
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• The Man Retreat

  Twenty-three men took to the woods this past weekend for a monolithic adventure of mind, body, and spirit. We spoke of our nascent superpowers, dubbed each other with descriptive superhero names and spoke openly about our individual kryptonite. Per tradition, …
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• A Day in the Life of a Staffer

  It’s a challenge sometimes to accurately communicate the 9 to 5 of someone on staff… partly because the 9 to 5 doesn’t exist when you are working with college students and partly because every person on staff has a different …
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• Echo Update Feb 07

  Fellow Hokies and friends of [nlcf],

  As I was sitting in our student Leadership Community last Monday night, hearing all of the stories about the student’s spring break missions trips to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and New Orleans, my heart was …
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• A Mountain Went Swimming

  What seemed nearly impossible a year ago has today come true. A mountain has gone into the sea. A bit of the kingdom has come. Faith and hope have carried the day.

  This afternoon, InterVarsity Press informed me of their …
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• APEX Update

  Hey everyone, just letting you all know that APEX will be at the BCM building (Baptist Campus Ministry) at the corner of Washington and Kent St. this Friday at 7:30pm. Hope you can make it!…
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• NRV in top 10

  The tri-”city” area of Christiansburg, Blacksburg, and Radford makes the list of the top 10 affordable job powerhouses for MSN Real Estate: places where the cost of living and unemployment are low and the number of jobs is growing …
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• Romans

  If a person is looking for reasons to feel proud of themselves for choosing Christ, the book of Romans will lay them flat on their face. Every chapter repeats praise to God for deciding to choose us to be part …
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• Galatians

  Paul is deeply concerned about the Galatians actually getting it. He says. “I am in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.” Now I don’t know what childbirth feels like, and I doubt Paul does either, but …
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• Bono at NAACP

  In 4th grade I remember reading from my 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records that Bono was the highest paid entertainer of all time. Two decades later, we see something rare in the world of entertainment, rather …
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