Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Stimulus - Night Two!


Join us this Thursday for the last night of our July series as we prepare to launch into a brand new college year as only theTURN knows best! 

Stimulus: something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action. It’s time for us all to wake up to our potential and discover our divine purpose. It’s time to let God breathe new life into us all. We know we are created for influence and impact, but what is the stimulus?

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Date:
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Free Chapel North Campus
Street:
1290 McEver Rd
City/Town:
Gainesville, GA

Thursday, July 16, 2009

theTURN Volley - TONIGHT!


Join us for our first ever volleyball tournament at Duncan Creek Park in Hamilton Mill tonight at 7:00 pm!

Register your team tonight if you want to!

Hope you will join us for this awesome event complete with tons of volleyball and FREE food! See you there! 

Date:
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Duncan Creek Park in Hamilton Mill
Street:
3700 Braselton Hwy

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Yes It is Amazing!

Amazing Grace 

“It is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9

            John Newton was a slave trader and a freethinker. He lived his life opposite to what would be honoring to God. He was described as a man whose curses and lifestyle expressed his revulsion against the very idea of God’s existence.

            One day out at sea, the slave-trading boat that Newton was on began to break apart in an incredibly furious storm. Something snapped in Newton’s mind and he remembered a verse of Scripture he had heard as a child: “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (Matthew 7:11, KJV).

            “God, if this is true,” Newton prayed earnestly, “make good Your Word. Cleanse my vile heart.”

            Four weeks later, in April 1748, the ship limped into an Irish harbor. Newton went to church and professed Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

            The song that best expresses his redemption is one of the most popular songs ever sung in the Christian faith: 

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;

Was blind, but now I see.

 

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears relieved;

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed!

 

Through many dangers, toils, and snares,

I have already come;

‘Tis grace that brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.

           

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we first begun.

See you Thursday night!

pc

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

"Stimulating Conversation"

Just a week away! Our brand new series launches next Thursday, July 9 with a very unique night. We will be sure to stimulate conversation. Be sure to be thinking about your perplexing questions that you have always wanted to ask; this night will be your chance! Throughout our time together, you will have the opportunity to text in your question and I will "take a stab at it" to the best of my ability. It will prove to be a great night....

See you soon, and as always, don't come alone!

Can't wait for us to be together again!
pcraig