C’mon n get HAPPY tonight ladies! 6:30PM Satchel’s Pizza!
We hope to see you there!

www.satchelspizza.com/
1800 NE 23rd ave 32609 (352)335-7272

Reminder: tonight at 6:30 in room 124 at Christ Community will be the first in the Film-Speak movie discussion series sponsored by the Opus Project. Please join us for this remarkable Oscar-winning film.

Film: Life of Pi (2 hours, PG)
Discussion: 30 minutes
Bring your own snacks…and some to share, if you like.

Details here.

Sunday we’ll begin a series in the gospel of John that will take us through Easter. We’ll be examining (and examined by!) interactions that Jesus had with various folk.

Some religious and others not so much. People in grief and people with doubts. All sorts of people with highly diverse backgrounds and needs.

Jesus changed the life of every person he met in the Gospels, through powerful experiences and words that led them to unexpected and transforming answers to their big questions. These conversations can still address our questions and doubts today. We’ll discover together how people were changed when they met Jesus personally—and how we can be changed today through our own encounter with him.

See you Sunday at 9 or 10:30.

Gospel of John–“In the Beginning” by Makoto Fujimura

Tim Keller–in the “Reason For God” chapter on God’s judgement–quotes a guy you can hear tonight at UF.

“Many people complain that those who believe in a God of judgment will not approach enemies with a desire to reconcile with them. If you believe in a God who smites evildoers, you may think it perfectly justified to do some of the smiting yourself. Yale theologian Miroslav Volf, a Croatian who has seen the violence in the Balkans, does not see the doctrine of God’s judgment that way. He writes: ‘

If God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make a final end to violence — that God would not be worthy of worship… The only means of prohibiting all recourse to violence by ourselves is to insist that violence is legitimate only when it comes from God… My thesis that the practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance will be unpopular with many… in the West. … [But] it takes the quiet of a suburban home for the birth of the thesis that human non-violence [results from the belief in] God’s refusal to judge. In a sun-scorched land, soaked in the blood of the innocent, it will invariably die … [with] other pleasant captivities of the liberal mind

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Lecture: “Can Religion Help–or only hinder–Global Justice and Peace?”
6:15 p.m., Pugh Center, Room 170

For those interested in Jon Tyson’s video from tonight’s Foundations class, it is available on vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/m/84030182