Join the men of Morrison Heights for the annual Wild Game Supper.

Thursday, February 18, Meal Times are at 5:30 and 6 p.m. in the Student Building.

Guest Speaker, Brodie Swisher, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Worship Center

Tickets are $10 and are available at the church office.

Ten volunteers are needed for serving and clean-up. Volunteers will receive a free ticket. To sign up, contact Tim Peabody at college@morrisonheights.org.

We live in a world where many of our friends don’t understand the incredible worth of a relationship with God. They are struggling to find purpose in life, and yet, we hold the key to having what they feel they are lacking.

God’s word (I Peter 3:15) tells us to be prepared to give a reason for the hope that is within us. XEE aims to help you do just that.

XEE is for you if you’re looking for a way to share your faith that is

• Easy to learn and remember
• Designed to be comfortable with anyone from a stranger to a close friend
• Effective even if the hearer has no knowledge of Christianity

Mondays from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. February 8 – March 8, 2010.
Hinds Community College BSU office
Led by Tim Peabody

Interested? Email Tim at tpeabody@morrisonheights.org.
Learn more at xee.info.

You can find joy in pain.  Paul did.  He was in prison for preaching Jesus, his so-called brothers were taking advantage of his imprisonment, and his life was in danger.  But he celebrated the progress the gospel had made through his imprisonment and persecution.  As to the risk of execution, Paul said, “To live is Christ, and to die is gain.”  Jim Elliot, missionary to the Auca indians of Ecuador, gave his life for the progress of the gospel.  In his words, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”  Step into a world in which pain and death are not worth comparing to the glory that God will reveal in us.

The Christian life is relentless pursuit of happiness. In his most joy-filled letter, Paul reveals the motives that drive him and the habits that feed his joy. Since Paul’s happiness is completely wrapped up in the glory of God, he finds joy in places we might not expect. His greeting to the Philippians shows his delight in being a slave of Christ and making disciples of Christ.

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Wednesday Night Weekly Worship

There will be no Wednesday Kaleo Weekly Worship on November 25.

Connect Groups

Connect Groups will not meet the week of Thanksgiving.

Sunday School & Worship

There will be no Sunday School on November 29. There will be one joint Sunday morning worship service at 10 a.m. and no evening activites.

Wednesday night we studied Acts 1:1-11.  In this passage Luke wrote that Jesus gave “many convincing proofs” that he had risen from the dead.  Some of the “convincing proofs” to which Luke refers are listed in Luke’s gospel:

• He allowed the disciples to see and touch his hands and feet (Luke 24:39).
• He ate food in their presence to show he was not a spirit or ghost (Luke 24:41-43).
• He showed them that the Scriptures (our Old Testament) prophesied the very events they were witnessing (Luke 24:44-48)

The skeptic might say, those proofs would be convincing if I had witnessed them myself, but how can I believe that Jesus really did these things?  Can we have that same confidence in Jesus resurrection?

Yes. John Piper of Desiring God Ministries lists 9 Ways to Know the Gospel is True.  One of which is:

Nobody has ever explained the empty tomb of Jesus in the hostile environment of Jerusalem where the enemies of Jesus would have given anything to produce the corpse, but could not.

The entire Christian movement could have been snuffed out if the opponents of Christianity had produced Jesus’ corpse.  But they could not.

9 Ways to Know the Gospel of Christ is True
Desiring God