06:14 Crusades & Univ
We are meant to connect with our heart. • What does it mean to be intimately connected with someone? • What does it mean to be intimately connected with God? • From what well are you drawing your sustenance?
CRUSADES:
SERMON NOTES 06-14-15
Crusades & Universities
APPETIZER: Context in History High point of Medieval Scholasticism: -‐ U. of Bologna, Italy c. 1088 -‐ U. of Paris, France c. 1150 -‐ U. of Oxford, England c. 1167 -‐ U. of Cambridge, England c. 1209 St. Dominic & St. Francis emerge during this time period
DINE-IN: Knowledge & Dependence TWO MAJOR THEOLOGIANS: ➡ Anselm (1033-1109 AD): Educated in France. Became Archbishop of Canterbury in England •
Ontological Argument*: Logic proof for existence of God.
•
Substitutionary atonement – belief that Jesus died to pay humanity’s moral debt to God
➡ Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD): Dominican Priest, born in Italy, taught in Paris. Wrote Summa Theologica •
Cosmological Argument**: Every being is either a dependent being or self-‐existent. Not all can be dependent -‐> there must exist a self-‐existent being (God).
Knowledge is never meant to stand alone. “...But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.” - I Corinthians 8:1 www.journeyfranklin.com
Journey Franklin
★ Established on complete misunderstanding of the Gospel of Jesus ★ Pope Innocent III -‐ Says God wants them to conquer Jerusalem (Holy Land). Forgives all sins of soldiers `ighting for Church. ★ 4th Crusade = Greatest crime against humanity (1200 AD) • Roman Catholic Church turns on Eastern Orthodox Church: crusaders rape & pillage Greek Orthodox Christians • No reconciliation until 1960! Think about the boy reaching out to invite the crying girl into the dance. • When was a time God reached out for you? • What would it look like for you to reach out for someone else?
TAKE-OUT:
Read Psalm 63:1-8 every day this week. Strike up a conversation with God after reading it. How does it make you feel? Continue to let conviction be your guide. If you see someone in need of help, reach out with the love you have received. If you are in need of help, let someone know. And remember, You are a child of God! *For more info on Anselm’s Ontological Argument: • http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-‐arg/ • http://www.princeton.edu/~grosen/puc/phi203/ontological.html **For more info on St. Thomas’ Cosmological Argument: • www.richmond-‐philosophy.net/rjp/rjp20_samuel.php • www.scandalon.co.uk/philosophy/cosmological_aquinas.htm
@journeyfranklin
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Village Questions HANGOUT (Warm-up)
1. What convictions have you acted on the last couple weeks? What was the experience like?
HEAR (Listen to God through scripture)
2. Read the following scripture aloud twice: Psalm 63:1-8. Before responding to it, take 1-‐2 minutes of silence to let the words sink in. (a) What verse or idea stands out to you? Why? (b) How does this verse hit you emotionally? i. Do you connect with David’s emotion? ii. Why or why not? (c) When was a time you clung to God? Did you feel upheld by His hand?
HUDDLE (Making it Personal, & Praying together)
3. We are designed to be dependent on God. Life will sometimes fall apart to remind you of your need for someone else. (a) In the places where it may seem life is falling apart, how does this point to your need for others/God? (b) What does it mean to be intimately connected with one another? With God? 4. The Crusades remind us the `lesh is always looking for a shortcut. Our pride drives us to be in control of our own redemption. (a) What crusade are you on to eradicate your sin? When sin comes up in life, how do you rid yourself of it? (b) In what areas of your life has pride taken control? 5. Finish the following two sentences: (a) When I am striving, I ______________ (b) When I am seeking, I ______________
QUOTES/SCRIPTURE…
The world has varying degrees of beauty in it. This implies that an ultimate standard of perfection exists. - Thomas Aquinas But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
- I Corinthians 8:1
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satis`ied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me. - Psalm 63:1-8 To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from the evidence which they consider adequate, but He remains personally unknown… - A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God The worshipping heart does not create its Object. It `ind Him here when it wakes from its moral slumber in the morning of its regeneration. - A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. - Psalms 46:10
CRUSADES:
SERMON NOTES 06-14-15
Crusades & Universities
APPETIZER: Context in History High point of Medieval Scholasticism: -‐ U. of Bologna, Italy c. 1088 -‐ U. of Paris, France c. 1150 -‐ U. of Oxford, England c. 1167 -‐ U. of Cambridge, England c. 1209 St. Dominic & St. Francis emerge during this time period
DINE-IN: Knowledge & Dependence TWO MAJOR THEOLOGIANS: ➡ Anselm (1033-1109 AD): Educated in France. Became Archbishop of Canterbury in England •
Ontological Argument*: Logic proof for existence of God.
•
Substitutionary atonement – belief that Jesus died to pay humanity’s moral debt to God
➡ Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD): Dominican Priest, born in Italy, taught in Paris. Wrote Summa Theologica •
Cosmological Argument**: Every being is either a dependent being or self-‐existent. Not all can be dependent -‐> there must exist a self-‐existent being (God).
Knowledge is never meant to stand alone. “...But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.” - I Corinthians 8:1 www.journeyfranklin.com
Journey Franklin
★ Established on complete misunderstanding of the Gospel of Jesus ★ Pope Innocent III -‐ Says God wants them to conquer Jerusalem (Holy Land). Forgives all sins of soldiers `ighting for Church. ★ 4th Crusade = Greatest crime against humanity (1200 AD) • Roman Catholic Church turns on Eastern Orthodox Church: crusaders rape & pillage Greek Orthodox Christians • No reconciliation until 1960! Think about the boy reaching out to invite the crying girl into the dance. • When was a time God reached out for you? • What would it look like for you to reach out for someone else?
TAKE-OUT:
Read Psalm 63:1-8 every day this week. Strike up a conversation with God after reading it. How does it make you feel? Continue to let conviction be your guide. If you see someone in need of help, reach out with the love you have received. If you are in need of help, let someone know. And remember, You are a child of God! *For more info on Anselm’s Ontological Argument: • http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-‐arg/ • http://www.princeton.edu/~grosen/puc/phi203/ontological.html **For more info on St. Thomas’ Cosmological Argument: • www.richmond-‐philosophy.net/rjp/rjp20_samuel.php • www.scandalon.co.uk/philosophy/cosmological_aquinas.htm
@journeyfranklin
@journeyfranklin
Village Questions HANGOUT (Warm-up)
1. What convictions have you acted on the last couple weeks? What was the experience like?
HEAR (Listen to God through scripture)
2. Read the following scripture aloud twice: Psalm 63:1-8. Before responding to it, take 1-‐2 minutes of silence to let the words sink in. (a) What verse or idea stands out to you? Why? (b) How does this verse hit you emotionally? i. Do you connect with David’s emotion? ii. Why or why not? (c) When was a time you clung to God? Did you feel upheld by His hand?
HUDDLE (Making it Personal, & Praying together)
3. We are designed to be dependent on God. Life will sometimes fall apart to remind you of your need for someone else. (a) In the places where it may seem life is falling apart, how does this point to your need for others/God? (b) What does it mean to be intimately connected with one another? With God? 4. The Crusades remind us the `lesh is always looking for a shortcut. Our pride drives us to be in control of our own redemption. (a) What crusade are you on to eradicate your sin? When sin comes up in life, how do you rid yourself of it? (b) In what areas of your life has pride taken control? 5. Finish the following two sentences: (a) When I am striving, I ______________ (b) When I am seeking, I ______________
QUOTES/SCRIPTURE…
The world has varying degrees of beauty in it. This implies that an ultimate standard of perfection exists. - Thomas Aquinas But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
- I Corinthians 8:1
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satis`ied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me. - Psalm 63:1-8 To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from the evidence which they consider adequate, but He remains personally unknown… - A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God The worshipping heart does not create its Object. It `ind Him here when it wakes from its moral slumber in the morning of its regeneration. - A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. - Psalms 46:10
