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TRACE :: THE THEME X-PLAINED
Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
John replid in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord’.
He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
John 1:22-23, 27
This year’s theme is TRACE. At the well in Samaria, Jesus was. At Jairus’ house, Jesus was. In a boat during a storm, Jesus was. On the cross of Calvary, Jesus was. It’s been 2,000 years since the time of Jesus.
Just imagine.
It’s been 2,000 years since an entire community was fed with a handful of fish and bread loaves.
It’s been 2,000 years since a man was raised from the dead.
It’s been 2,000 years since His feet made footprints in the sand.
Or has it?
Jesus is still with us, making traces where it matters, yet go unnoticed. How do we know what a footprint of Jesus looks like if we don’t know where his feet were and why they were there? His disciples traced for us the way of his footsteps.
His powerful and loving footsteps…
In a pair of sandals….
Sandals we are unworthy to untie…
that can be traced all over the world.
Awestruck 2009 is a new outdoor summer experience for Senior High youth loaded with music, food, contests, sports, speakers, entertainment, and camping while tracing the powerful and loving footsteps of our Savior.
Prepared to get struck, Awestruck.
.Awestruck Festival 2009 :: "Trace".
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire.”
.Hebrews 12:28-29.
The culture we live in moves more rapidly today than ever before. The winds of today’s society are striking your body at all angles, sending you into a spiraling effect that has the power to move you without your control. You are swept up in a storm that seems inescapable as everything around you begins to lose all focus and stability. However, you remain unshaken.
A God that cannot be shaken lives inside of us and He shows us who he is on the outside. Amidst the wind, hail, and thunderstorms of life, we are only struck by one thing: awe. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might. The light that bursts through the clouds and strikes at our very being is He, who is a consuming fire.
Prepared to get struck, Awestruck.
