What's Next?

http://www.thisisnext.org

It is the new name for New Attitude! All the conference and registration info is now on the website!

Music

If you went to New Attitude and loved the worship music, get this CD! If you didn't go, get this CD. It is great! I think you can download it on the SG ministries music website for about $10 or you can buy the CD in the church bookstore ($13?)



Also, on Bob Kauflin's blog he has several free songs from Na you can download for free.This includes the song where Jessi and Jenni played in the string band and did that cool thing where they plucked the strings, and it also includes the two prophetic songs that Bob Kauflin sang. Go here to get them!

How do you read your Bible?

By now the New Attitude messages have kind of blended together; in other words, I have a hard time remembering who said what when. I still remember several main points and overall themes to the messages however. A main area that I learned in and desire to grow in as a result of this conference is my attitude and treatment of the Bible. I need to be studying it and loving it-not just reading it to check a box as I do sometimes. Also,I need to be memorizing verses to use when I am in temptation-these can also be used to help another person.

I am curious, what do you do for your quite times? Do you just read or do you take notes? How do you take notes? When you memorize verses how do you choose which ones? Please let me know via a comment so that I and/or other readers of this blog can get some ideas of how other people have quite times and I/they may even use some! So give your ideas even if it does not sound very "wonderful" to you...it may still help another.

Guides

The New Attitude website has two guides posted on their website. Click here to access them. One is on applying Na messages and another is on questions you can ask yourself as you read your Bible. Let me know if you decide to use them and what you think!

More Na!

Here is a video that I found on Youtube.

New Attitude 2008

Well I just got back (Tuesday night) from my very 1st New Attitude (Na) conference. It was awesome! We learned some great new songs in worship, the teachings were amazing and hanging out with friends all day long was so much fun! So much was packed into each day of our stay there!

Saturday

On Saturday I had a 9:30 AM flight, a layover in Charlotte, and then I arrrived in Louisville about 3 PM. There were lots of Na people there to direct us to the Na shuttle! They were very nice people. I arrived at the hotel before any of my roomates and stood in the looong line to get checked in. Soon after two of my roomates arrived we went with some other people to get checked in at the hotel. Then we pretty much just relaxed until it was time for the 1st main session.

Josh Harris spoke on Jerimiah 15: 16 ("Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts") Josh Harris spoke on our response to God's word and he read about 3 different men and their responses to God's word (Josiah, Jehoiokim (sp?), and Jeremiah). One of his final points was that the Bible is not about what we must do for God(although that is included), but about what God has done for us through Jesus Christ.

After the main session we had our first community groups. We stayed up very late talking in our hotel.

Sunday

Sunday started with 9 AM community groups and then a main session. Mark Dever spoke on the authority of scripture. During the first part of the message he established that the Bible is reliable and then in the second part he discussed why the Bible should have authority in our lives. Something he said toward the end was that we do not know how long we will have the freedom to read the Bible openly as we do now...things could change very quickly.

Several of us decided to go to Subway for lunch (we wanted to go to the one outside of the foodcourt thinking it would be less crowded). We walked all the way down there only to find it closed :( Then some Na Ninjas (married couples who volunteered to walk around handing out candy, and willing to help you if you need it) offered to go back with us to the Subway in the food court and buy us lunch! anyway we walked back only to find long lines....soooo they offered to buy pizza so we walked all the way to a Papa Johns where the Ninjas left us with some money for the pizza and went off to buy some more people lunch. Despite walking all over the place it was a lot of fun (and we got free lunch :)

For the afternoon session Al Mohler did a Bible Q & A session. People asked questions of all types. During the evening session, C.J. Mahaney spoke on God's Word and Our Feelings. He said that we nee to start talking to ourselves more and listening to ourselves less. We need to remind ourselves to trust in God. We also need to talk to God, C.J. said that God loves for us to remind Him, humbly and boldly, of His promises.

Monday

We had community groups again and the in the first main session, Eric Simmons spoke on why we need to study the Bible. His 3 main reasons were 1. Scriptures reveal Jesus Christ. 2. Scriptures give life (he made the point that God's word is living and active and it affects us even if we don't realize it). 3. Sciptures equip us for God's mission. His main passage of scripture was 2nd Timothy 3:14-17

I went to lunch with some freinds to a Chinese place, it was pretty good. Then we went back for the afternoon session where John Piper spoke about William Tyndale. A man who suffered very much trying to get an English translation of the Bible so more people could read it-he was killed for it.

During the evening session John Piper spoke on using God's word to fight for faith. He emphesized the importance of studying and memorizing scripture and using it in our fight. Piper said that the fight for faith is a fight for joy,a fight to the death, and a fight to see Christ (with the eyes of our hearts).

Tuesday

I ended up missing community groups because of sleeping and then having to get everything packed up. In the main session, C.J. gave a great message on the doctrine of adoption and ho much God loves us.

My trip home went well and I arrived home almost on time.

Kaitlin R. jumped in front of my camera :)

Walking to the convention center
There were lots of horse carriages in Louisville

Me, Shannon, Lyndsey, Courtney, Micah, Caitlin H., and Liz

A group of us during one of the sessions

Lyndsey and I
Jessi and Jenni taking a break in between sessions
Two Na Ninjas towards the left side of the pic

There were around 3500 people at the conference! This is just a small section

Walking (again)

One night several of us went to walk by some water (a river I think)

Uhhh....

We found a plunger in the middle of a parking lot and Caitlin H. posed by it

Courtney and Shannon looked up at a plane just as I snapped this pic. (notice Caitlin H. in the background!)
Walking by the water

Rach, Kaitlin, Me and Jap

Katy L. and I
Caitlin H. and I

Off to find some lunch
The choir that sang during the worship before one of the sessions

The Na worship band

This movie's title is Uh...wrong button

New Attitude was such a wonderful time. I hope that I can attend New Attitude 2009 in Baltimore Md! That's all for now.

P.S. If you want to listen to any of the Na messages you can get them and more info on the Na website.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

I leave for New Attitude tomorrow morning! I am soooo excited!!

Shopping for New Attitude

On Sunday Kaitlin R., Liz D., Courtney C., and Rachael M., and I went out to lunch after church to Five Guys for lunch. It was so yummy! After we spent time eating and talking all of us except for Rachael (she had already made plans to do her shopping with Jessi and Jenni) headed over to Wall-Mart to get stuff for New Attitude (which is less than a week away!!!!) It was such a blast. We decided, however that it may not have been a good idea to go shopping with friends. this is because if one of us finished on an isle they would keep looking around while waiting for the others to finish and end up finding more stuff we"had" to buy! :) :) :) Our cart was so full by the end of our shopping and we even ended up not getting some of the stuff we originally put in the cart :) By the time we finished shopping it was about 5:30! I had so much fun...I can't wait until New Attitude! Only FOUR DAYS LEFT!!!!!

And now to figure out how to pack all the snacks I bought :)

Seven Days and Counting

After today there is only one week until I will be going to New Attitude! I am so excited! We made a last minute decision that I will be taking a plane to Na instead of carpooling and that makes everything even more exciting because I like to fly. From all that I have heard from those who have been before the conference will be filled with great worship and teaching as well as lots of fun and talking and very late nights! I cannot wait, and I will definately be posting pictures and telling you all about my trip!

Schedule for New Attitude 2008!!!!

I just looked at the New Attitude Website and I found the conference schedule! I copied it into my blog...here it is!

"Saturday 7:30p General Session—Josh Harris / “Jeremiah 15:16”
10:15p Community Groups 11:30p Neighborhood Open

Sunday 9:00a Community Groups 10:45a General Session-Mark Dever/“The Authority of Scripture”
1:00p Neighborhood Open 3:00p General Session—Bible Q & A with Al Mohler
4:30p Neighborhood Open 7:45p General Session—C.J. Mahaney / “God’s Word and Our Feelings”
10:15p Neighborhood Open

Monday 9:00a Community Groups 10:45a General Session—Eric Simmons / “What’s the Point?”
1:00p Neighborhood Open 3:00p General Session—John Piper / “Fighting for Faith with God’s Word”
4:30p Neighborhood Open 7:45p General Session—John Piper / “William Tyndale”
10:15p Neighborhood Open

Tuesday 9:00a Community Groups
10:45a General Session—C.J. Mahaney / “How Do We Really Study This Book?” "

As you can see we New Attutude people are going to be busy! (I think that the "Neighborhood open" is a breaktime? If someone who has been before wants to leave a comment to clarify that would be great.

I cannot wait!!!

Four Weeks and Counting

Tomorrow it will ve exactly four weeks until SUMMER BREAK! I am sooo excited. I am also excited because my exams should be fairly easy. My Spanish and Philosophy exams should be easy and my computer exam shouldn't be too bad. My Biology exam is basically I regular test and I don't have an English exam! The only major assignments that I have between now and finals is a 2,000 word research paper for English, a project for my computer class and 2 short oral presentations for Spanish (none of these should be too bad :) Two weeks after school lets out I will be heading for New Attitude! I am so excited as this is my very first time! I will be carpooling with a bunch of other people from my church and we have to leave late Friday night and drive all the way to Kentucky! The conference runs from Saturday until Tuesday and according to my friends who have gone in previous years it will be filled with good teaching, great worship, talking, staying up very late, and more talking. During the summer I am hoping to do some extra work to save up some money while I have the time to work extra hours. I also hope to have some fun with family and friends and go to the beach at least once! Maybe I can even get in a trip to Busch Gardens! Last year, I went with Kaitlin and her family, and Laura. It was my 2nd time going and the 1st time to ride a major roller coaster! I even rode the Griffon! It was sooo scary, but I think I would do it again as it was a lot of fun as well :) Well that is all for now. I have a philosophy class to go to in a few minutes.