Community Day!

I know that too many students view Community Days as nothing more than a free day off of classes, to be honest, I used to think that when I was a Freshman. But for everyone of you students that were absent from yesterday's community day, you did yourself a major disservice!

We, as the faculty of theology, were so very privileged to have Brian Buhler (from Pacific Community Church) come and speak to us. His reputation preceded him (all faculty I talked to spoke incredibly highly of him as a dynamic and profound speaker) and I must admit that all that I was expecting was blown out of the water! He spoke on Jesus, Holiness and Ministry. It was a fantastic message that every student would do exceedingly well to hear.

He spoke on John the Baptist and how the entirety of his ministry, and his God-given mission was to simply point to Jesus in all that he did. He emphasized to us that as people going into ministries only job is to point to Jesus in all that we do! John the Baptist, the man sent to prepare the way for Jesus spent a whole lot of time in the desert, whenever he was in public he would do nothing but point to Jesus and give all credit to Jesus, when he was not in public he was in the desert preparing his heart and engaging in community with the Father. What a great reminder that is for us to keep on the forefront of our minds as we pursue ministry beyond the walls of Ambrose. We need to know that we are nothing without Jesus, we have very little to offer God beyond our hearts and our complete surrendering of our lives to Him, and we find all of our guidance through intimacy with the Father.

After reminding us that Jesus needs to be the centre of our attention and where all the glory is given he had everyone in the room recite St. Patrick's prayer. It is a powerful prayer and how I am going to end this blog writeup...

St. Patrick's Prayer

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the threeness,
Through confession of the oneness,
Of the Creator of Creation.





Blessings friends, and point to Jesus in all that you do!

-kyle.trigg
(kytrigg@ambrose.edu)