The Stromwall's

Election Day is fast approaching. Who are you going to vote for? An Interesting article about voting – Let Christians Vote as if they were not voting

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2008/3347_Let_Christians_Vote_As_Though_They_Were_Not_Voting/

What a glorious thing, for pastors of multiple evangelical denominations to get together and and fight for the preservation and exaltation of the gospel.

www.thegospelcoalition.org

So, after a year of being away from the University of Minnesota Recreation Department, I’m back. Racquetball is back.

I’m finding a few guys who really enjoy Racquetball. Please pray with me that their hearts would be opened!

-Nick

http://www.hobbystop.net/Racquetball/Videos/Play_Better_Racquetball:_Skills_and_Drills.html

Wedding Pictures are up here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/katiestromwall/NickAndKatieSWedding#

The CCP Team returns to the US with great relationships formed while in India!

Check out the CCP Blog for more updates!

www.cominneapolis.org/ccp2008

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Two staff from Campus Outreach, Paul Poteat and Andrew Knight, two men that have discipled me over the years leave today for India to plan and setup the cross cultural project this summer.

About 15 students gathered to pray and send them off as they try and cultivate relationships with a school in either Delhi or Allahabad that would serve as a “in” for students to come and share Christ with the students.

The trip is to setup a place to stay, create and build relationships with school officials and plan activities for the students.

Last year a team when to Allahabad and partnered with a school. This year the goal is to find and partner with a school in Delhi.

Please pray:

• open hands for location – Delhi or Allahabad
• safety – the streets in Delhi are very dangerous
• relationships to be formed

the gospel would go forth and Indian Students would be equipped to share their faith with others

-Nick

(Read from Impact20 – 20 somethings ministry at Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, Wi)

Pot-shot positions, groundless assertions and single-issue zealotry deserve little attention and less respect.

It took me a few years to recognize this, a few more to admit it.

The discussions I was a part of … challenged me to create a more intentional, coherent vision of our community by identifying strengths and pleasant eccentricities and building on these a vision of people living differently.

Those strengths most salient and valuable lay within the non-monetary, inherently egalitarian public sphere: public parks, downtown farmers’ markets, community concerts, ethnic and cultural celebrations, the library and any sidewalk or street not ruled de facto by the automobile. Continue reading

This book by Joeseph Carroll is great – I highly recommend reading it!

D.L Moody

What was the key to the life of D.L. Moody? He once heard a man say, “The world has yet to see what God can do through a man wholly surrendered to Him.”

D.L. Moody said, “By the grace of God, I will be that man.”

We all know how God used D.L Moody. Was it because he was brilliant, because he was gifted, because he was educated, because he was a man of essentially superlative gifts? No, he was a man with a perfect heart who proved the truth of 2 Chronicles 16:9: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to [show] himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.”

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where are we at with this command from Jesus today?

check out a great web resource for tracking the progress of the gospel at : www.joshuaproject.net