Posts Tagged Charlie Brooks
STP 2010: Charlie Brooks – Good Life At No Cost: Will of God
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Summer Training Project on July 24, 2010
What is God’s will? To live for Him. Charlie Brooks shares on how to know the will of God and questions our desire to know the future. Do we really desire God glorified, or is it the sin of anxiety and pride?
STP 2010: Charlie Brooks – A Good Life At No Cost – The Church
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Summer Training Project on July 22, 2010
“Our culture does not get excited about the idea of church… many evangelical Christians fall into that category, they’re not flocking to the churches as much…..”
Charlie Brooks takes our fear of submission and shares on the benefits of becoming committed to the church.
Summer Leaders Retreat: Skills
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Retreats on April 27, 2010
Charlie Brooks concluded our time by talking about the skills of the leader. How do we apply the picture of discipleship that is laid in scripture to the everyday interactions we have with the people we are leading? His last point was to pray for the growth of the people you are leading – we often forget the importance of this.
North SS: Acts 1:8
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Sunday School on February 3, 2010
Charlie introduced our topic for college sunday school a couple of weeks ago. We will be giving an overview of the book of Acts this year.
MNYC – Restless Thinking to Restful Peace – Charlie Brooks
Posted by COM Blogger in Christmas Conference, Resources on January 5, 2010
What does it mean to be a Christian? How do I know if I am saved? If have sinful thoughts or do sinful things, am I still a Christian? These are questions that can plague us occasionally or every day in life. We need to know how to answer these questions and others like them when they come up in our mind. In this seminar, we will look at what the Bible says about our restless thoughts. We will examine what we tend to put our hope in or and our assurance in and then what the Bible says about our only true
hope.
North SS 11/15/09 – Bruce Olson “Bruchko”
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Sunday School on November 19, 2009
Charlie Brooks shared with us about Bruce Olson.
Bruce Olson (b. November 10, 1941) is a Scandinavian American Christian missionary who is best known for his pioneering work in bringing Christianity to the so-called Motilone Indians of Columbia and Venezuela. His story is told in his autobiographies Bruchko and Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle.
Purchase his book here:
BULL Meeting 11/4/09 – Games People Play: The Next Thing
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources on November 6, 2009
Charlie spoke at the Northwestern BULL meeting last night about games we play by looking to the next thing. Much of our life is spent thinking about what’s next in our life or dreaming about what could be. We are looking to the upcoming sports season or the next episode of a tv show or the possibility to getting married. We are often thinking of what is next that we might miss something that God has for us right now. Charlie mentioned 4 things that are revealed by the fact that we are consumed with the next thing:
-There is idolatry in our hearts
-We are scared of having idle minds
-We are looking for heaven on earth
-We aren’t trusting that what God has given us is best
You can listen to the talk here:
The girls also made a video skit promoting their upcoming women’s retreat:
North Sunday School 11/1/09 – Adoniram Judson
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Sunday School on November 4, 2009
In continuing our study on heroes and heroines of the faith, Charlie spoke about Adoniram Judson. He was the first overseas missionary sent from North America. He ministered for 38 years to the people of Burma (or Myanmar) until the day he died. He spent lots of time translating a Bible into the Burmese language. One of the most challenging things about his life is how much he really lived in light of the reality that the Bible is his ultimate authority. We had time for discussion questions in Sunday School. Here are the questions that the students talked about:
-Why do you think the scriptures were so important to Judson?
-Why do they have importance for our life today?
-What is the danger of trusting in our reason (like the Burmese convert did) instead of the scriptures?
-What are things that contend for the place of ultimate authority in your life?
-What can we do to fight against these things that contend for authority?
BULL Meeting – Games People Play: Sin
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources on October 9, 2009
Charlie Brooks spoke at our BULL meeting at Northwestern on Wednesday night. We had about 100 students in attendance. He spoke on the games we play with our sin.
-We don’t think sin is all that bad
-We don’t think that we are all that bad
-We hide our sin from other people
This quote by Tim Keller is helpful when thinking about the wickedness of our hearts:
“The gospel gives you psychological freedom to handle the wrong things that you will do. You won’t have to deny, spin, or repress the truth about yourself. These things don’t make it impossible to know who you are.
Only with the support of hearing Jesus say, ‘You are capable of terrible things, but I am absolutely, unconditionally committed to you,’ will you be able to be honest with yourself.”
North Sunday School 10/04/09 – Darlene Diebler Rose
Posted by COM Blogger in Resources, Sunday School on October 6, 2009
At the North Campus for Sunday School, we are teaching on Heroes and Heroines of the Faith. We have been looking at the stories of different men and women who have gone before us and have given their lives away for the sake of the gospel. We have looked at Roger Youdarian, Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, David Brainerd, and Darlene Diebler Rose. This week Charlie talked about Darlene Diebler Rose. She was a missionary to SE Asia in the 1940′s. She was put in a prison camp and almost executed. Because of the grace of God, she was extremely devoted to the Lord in the midst of many trials. You can hear her testimony here.
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