The first STIL-Chatting Chess Tournament will begin on Tuesday, February  19, 2008.  Round Robin is how the tournament will be played.  The tournament is open to all, but limited to 2 six- person groups in each category:  Beginner and Non-Beginner.

 

Games will be played on Yahoo! Games, in the Chess Centipede Shack.  If you are a beginner, or need a brush-up, Yahoo! Games has a good tutorial on the game.

 

How to sign up:  Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and whether you are a beginner or a non-beginner.

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Hymns often are a great source of theology. This Lord’s Day’s Song for the Bread was no different. Written by Isaac Watts, whenever I sing this hymn, if you can call it singing, I am undone. Typically, I end up reading along through blurry, tear-filled eyes.

 

How sweet and awesome is the place

With Christ within the doors,

While everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores.

 

While all our hearts and all our songs

Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cries, with thankful tongue,

“Lord, why was I a guest?’

 

Why was I made to hear Thy voice,

And enter while there’s room,

When thousands make a wretched choice,

And rather starve than come?

 

‘Twas the same love that spread the feast

That sweetly forced us in;

Else we had still refused to taste,

And perished in our sin.

 

Pity the nations, O our God,

Constrain the earth to come;

Send Thy victorious Word abroad,

And bring the strangers home.

 

We long to see Thy churches full,

That all the chosen race

May, with one voice and heart and soul,

Sing Thy redeeming grace.

 

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“Preaching should break a hard heart and heal a broken one.”

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September of 2007, my husband, Larry, and I attended a conference that was put on by the West Coast Evangelical Alliance, called, Transforming the Mind; Reviving the Heart. The speakers for the conference were W. Robert Godfrey; Michael Horton; Rev. Jason Allen; Rev. Ken Jones; and Rev. Don Chalmers. Michael Horton and Rev. Ken Jones are from The White Horse Inn; Rev. Jason Allen is from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; W. Robert Godfrey, President of Westminster Seminary California, and Rev. Don Chalmers who put the conference together.

The days we spent at the conference were encouraging. To see such top notch speakers willing to come and address the local church body in the San Francisco Bay Area was heartwarming. One thing that really stuck with me was the view of the West Coast. The West Coast of the U.S.A. is considered to be a missionary field within Evangelical denominations. Through my blog reading today, I stumbled upon this map. The map confirmed that the West Coast is, indeed, a missionary field.

We are minorities, swimming in a sea of Roman Catholicism. Historically, this make sense when you consider that much of the west was discovered by Spaniards. If I drive for an hour north, south, or east of our home, we would reach a mission founded by Junipero Serra. There is a mission in the town that we live in as well, but it was not founded by Serra.

The good news is, we don’t have to travel to be on a mission field; the bad news is, we were not evangelized by our Protestant brethren. Are any Evangelical denominations waking up and sending missionaries to the west coast of the U.S.A.?

Where does your state fit in? Click on the map to enlarge it.

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