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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Crankin' on in FebRUary and March!

Tuesday, February 24th - 7 p.m. Guys getting together! We'll talk about our calling as God's men and what's coming up at the Barn. (There will be a group eating and hanging out at Showmars - SC 160 and 521 - in the "back room....5:30 p.m.-6:44 p.m. EVERY Tuesday)

Saturday February 28th…7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.…Work day at “The Barn” to clean up, straighten up, set up, pray over the property, and fellowship. 10:30 a.m.…Help a BRIT! Barn Bro Paul Gohl and his bride need some hands to help them move from the Steele Creek area. Contact paulgohl@yahoo.co.uk 704.576.5417

Tuesday, March 3 - Journey of Discovery - we're cranking up another 8-week series at The Barn. 7 p.m. til 8:59 p.m. What does it look like to walk in the strength God has called men to walk in...to find our hearts....to walk in our true calling and identity. film clip collection, words of wisdom from John Eldredge (Wild at Heart), Erwin McManus (The Barbarian Way), C.S. Lewis and friends, lots of small group breakout time (you'll surely learn more from each other than the wise, old Barn leaders). Note: This will be limited to first 24 guys who can commit to the series.


March 19-22 - Top Gun 2009 in the mountains of Virginia. Awesome weekend retreat featuring a large contingent of brothers from Charlotte/Rock Hill/Fort Mill and across the Carolinas. Check it out (http://www.zoweh.com/), check the calendar, check in with the social director, jump in. If you don't have the dough, the scholarship fund is growing.


NEWSFLASH

Summer of 2009
- A major studio MAY be announcing filming of a new project about the Barn starring Kevin Casner. Working titles under consideration are Dances with Wild Men and Beer: Helping White Men Dance since 1939.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

What's REALLY going on at the Barn?

Many of us have spent years and even decades learning from the word of God. Where some of us have "missed it" is the connection between the head and the heart. Am I REALLY walking in strength and honor and freedom? Is there more for me than the "rules"? Who has the Father called me to be? Is it a heart issue? John Eldredge shares the following from the book "Desire"...
Dare we forget King David? Yes, his passions got him in a heap of trouble—and gave us our book of worship, the Psalms. Sure, Peter was a hotheaded disciple always quick with a reply. Remember in the Garden of Gethsemane—he’s the one who lopped off the ear of the high priest’s servant. But he was also the first to acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah, and despite his Good Friday betrayals he became a key apostle, contributed important pieces to the Scripture, and followed Jesus all the way to his own crucifixion, asking to be nailed to the cross upside down because he was not worthy to die in the manner of his Lord. Surely we remember that Paul was once Saul, the fiery young Pharisee “advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and . . . extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers” (Gal. 1:14). His zeal made him the foremost persecutor of the church. When Christ knocked him off his donkey on the Damascus road, Paul was hunting down the church, “uttering threats with every breath” (Acts 9:1 NLT). Christ captured his zeal, and after Damascus it led him to “work harder than all the other apostles” (1 Cor. 15:10 NLT). Augustine was also a passionate young man, sexually licentious, enamored with the pleasures of Rome, “scratching the sore of lust,” as he would call it after Christ got hold of him. He went on to become one of the great pillars of the church, laying the foundation for the rise of Christendom after the fall of Rome. Desire, a burning passion for more, is at the heart of both saints and sinners. Those who would kill the passion altogether would murder the very essence that makes heroes of the faith.

Second Annual Fourth of July Extravaganza

Second Annual Fourth of July Extravaganza
Thanks to Everyone came...It was a Blast