Edge Birmingham

Hey Parents, last night was a blast for our community. There was a great energy and excitement.
1 quick note!
Our retreat is March 2-4th – there will be separate ones for girls and guys. sign up at www.edgebham.com/retreat
Cost is $99 this week but goes up at the end of the week!

Here some recap questions and scriptures from last night.
We had Ryan Scheidemantel teach and it was awesome! He was great.
Ryan taught from this verse (JAMES 1:27)
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Here are a few questions:
1. What does its look like to obey God’s invitation for looking after the “Least of these”

We watched this video that shows how love can affect a person, causing a ripple effect in their life

2. What has had a great ripple effect in your life? Maybe a person or a moment?

3. How was the artistic opening revealing about what is going on in the world?

I hope your students aren’t stinking up the place too much!

Thanks
Justin

Hey Parents,
This past sunday night we had a special guest speak on the topic of sex.
It was an amazing night where Pam Stenzel spoke with honesty and grace on a very important issue.
Here were a few quotes and follow up questions
“Opposites will attract in regard to personality. Opposites will never attract in regard to Character!”
– A great question would – what type of character are you looking for in your relationships?
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Hey Parents,
one quick reminder – This SUNDAY – PAM STENZEL is talking at our TROY campus about Sex. We will be meeting at GENESIS BEFORE 6pm so that we can take a bus to Troy together. You ARE ENCOURAGED to join this night and drive straight to Troy Campus. Doors open at 630pm and our program starts at 645pm!
See you there!

Your students and our culture is being shaped on a continually basis.
It may the music, tv, or movies. I believe one of the least talked about influecences in our culture is pornography.
Here are some of the stats as of 2010.

My questions for continuing your dialogue with your students.
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This week at Edge we had a live panel for a live Q&A.

It was a great time with plenty of challenging questions.

I would open up the discussion with your student by asking them a few questions.
1. What tough questions do you have about faith?
2. What question did you love hearing the answer to?
And the third question may be a great challenge or opportunity.
3. What are some questions that you could look up as a family?

Let me communicate a few key items with our tough questions series.
1. we want students to know that they can ask questions as they pursue their faith. Students need to know that they do not need to follow Christ blindly but can pursue questions that they are wrestling with. When we wrestling with some of these topics they only make our faith stronger in the end because you know what you stand for.

2. In the midst of any doubt or journey, we believe that Christ is constantly inviting us to experience His love and sacrifice. THat whether we believe in Christ, he ALWAYS believes in us and is longing for us to experience His Love and freedom.
I believe we see it through the scriptures from verses like John 3:16 to other verses like John 10:10

I pray that these questions would only be a resource to your faith and conversations with your students!

Thanks
Justin

As we entered into our 2nd week of our series Tough Questions, we dove into the question: If God forgives, can i do whatever i want?

This is a question that has always been a tension.

We looked at a few verses of scripture and discussed the idea of what freedom really looks like in Romans 6:14-16

Here are a few follow up questions to help your conversation with your students!
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Hey parents,

This past sunday night was a great kickoff to our tough questions series.

We really wanted to have our students have some of the questions that they are asking discussed in our community.

The 1st week revolved around – What do bad things happen to good people? Another way we also talked about it was, How can a loving God and Suffering both exist?

Here are 3 questions to further the dialogue with your teen.
1. How do we see the unfairness of life play out around us? Where is there suffering that surrounds us?
2. If Jesus engages in the suffering of the blind man in John 9, how do we see God wanting to engage with our sufferings?
3. How can we be part of the suffering we see around us? How can we begin to be part of the solution?

The next 3 weeks look like this before our winter break!
Dec 4th – “If God is forgiving, why can’t i live how i want?”
Dec 11th – We are having a panel of questions that were asked by students answered
Dec 18th – EDGE BHAM CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!

Looking forward to hearing about how your conversations are going!
Send me an email at justin.warns@kensingtonchurch.org