TD Fri. – Movie Night at the Hsiehs’ (7:30 p.m.) – “The Voyage of the Dawntreader”

Hey TD!

We’ll be having our final movie night of the year, finishing up the final Chronicles of Narnia movie series, “The Voyage of the Dawntreader.”

Lucy and Edmund meet up with their cousin, Eustace, and sail father east than anyone has ever sailed. They rejoin King Caspian in an effort to save Narnia. In order to do so, they will be put to the ultimate test, as they face perhaps their deadliest foes … themselves. It’s a test we all will have to face, at one time or another.

Now that AP’s, sports, and performances are mostly over, we hope you’ll join us and relax before you enter your finals weeks.

Please come on time. You can be picked up at 10:30 p.m.

As usual, there will be refreshments to enjoy. And you are welcome to bring some, as well, if you’d like.

Please let a TD leader know if you can come! For Narnia!

No TD This Week! See you next week!

Hey TD!

With AP exams, performances, projects, et al happening at the same time, we will be taking this week off.

We’ll be back next week, as we watch and discuss the final Chronicles of Narnia movie, “The Voyage of the Dawntreader.”

Keep your eyes on the Lord during this busy time, TD!

“Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – Jesus (Matt. 6:33)

TD Fri. – “How to Love One Another” Bible Study (John 15:12-17)

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Join us this Friday as we continue our study of John 15! It’s an amazing passage that we have already gleaned so much from. This Friday, we’ll be discussing a super important passage – vv. 12-17:

 12“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14“You are My friends, if you do what I command you. 15“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16“You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give to you. 17“This I command you, that you love one another.

We’ll be in MC131, from 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Hope you can make it!

TD Fri. – Movie Night at the Hsiehs’ – 7 p.m.! Calling All Narnia Fans!

Hey TD!

For the Pevensie siblings, it’s been one year since they stepped through the wardrobe and landed in Narnia. In Narnia, however, it’s been 1300 years and things have changed dramatically.

Last month, we took an allegorical look at the cross through the film adaptation of CS Lewis’s, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe from the renowned The Chronicles of Narnia series.

This month, we’ll be watching the sequel Prince Caspian, based on the novel of the same name in the same series.

The movie is 2 1/2 hours, so we are meeting at the Hsiehs’ home at 7 p.m. You may be picked up at 10:30 p.m. We will have refreshments to enjoy. You are welcome to bring some too, if you’d like.

Let a TD leader know if you can come. For Narnia!

TD Fri. – Study Break Fun on Zoom!

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With SAT’s and AP’s approaching, projects due, Spring concerts and performances all upon you, we’re going to give you a chance to take a quick one-hour study break with your TD family on Zoom from 8 – 9 p.m. this Friday.

Our very own Tim will be planning some games/activities for us to just chill and have fun with each other before heading back to the grind.

Get the Zoom link from your friendly neighborhood TD leader 😉 See you on Friday!

TD Fri. – “Abiding in God’s Love” Bible Study (John 15:9-13)

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This Friday, we will continue in our study of John 15 by looking at verses 9-13:

⁹ Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. ¹² “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 

There’s a lot to learn about life and love in this passage. Come join us as we discover more of God’s love for Jesus, Jesus’s love for us, and how to abide in that love … for our benefit and His glory!

We hope to see you at 7:30 p.m. in the new TD room, Room 131!

Good Friday – Passion Week w/Sinclair Ferguson – “The Man Who Was Crucified Beside Him”

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Hopefully, you’ve had an impactful week looking at Passion Week through the lens of those who encountered Jesus on the way to the cross. So familiar are we with Bible narratives, that we often don’t really process that these are real people, with real stories, that we are reading about. They often are relegated to the stature of characters in a play or movie, a protagonist or antagonist.

Today, Dr. Ferguson looks at the man for whom he says,

“… there was one man for whom the day started as the worst day in his life, but ended not only as the last day, but as the best day.

Well, that’s the business Jesus is in – the business of changing lives. This day can turn out to be your best day, as well, if you embrace Him as your Lord and Savior and receive His forgiveness that was secured through His work on the cross.

Here’s today’s episode: The Man Who Was Crucified Beside Him

“Because I live, you shall live also.” John 14:19

Day 4 – Passion Week w/Sinclair Ferguson – “Simon, Who Carried His Cross”

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It’s been a meaningful and humbling week to find ourselves in each of the people Dr. Ferguson has referenced this Holy Week. Their traits are our traits, their ambition our ambition, their fears our fears.

Today, Ferguson turns our sights towards Simon of Cyrene, who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time … or was it the right place at the right time? The book of Mark reads,

“And they (the Roman execution squad) compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country … to carry the cross.”

Friends, there are no true and ultimate “accidents” in our lives. Everything happens for a purpose (or more). As we’ll see today, Simon’s happenstance timing of passing by at that exact moment happened to change his life.

Here’s today’s episode: Simon, Who Carried His Cross

Day 3 – Passion Week w/Sinclair Ferguson – “Pilate, Who Condemned Him”

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After looking at Judas, who betrayed Jesus, and Peter, who denied Him, Sinclair Ferguson now takes the angle of Pontius Pilate, who condemned Him, and connects Pilate’s conundrum with our own:

The Gospel writers tell Pilate’s story in a way that makes you realize why the Bible is likened to a mirror. You read about Pilate and you feel you’re watching scenes that reflect moments in your own life, moments that nothing can really prepare you for. You’re faced with a question that will determine what happens to you in the future. There’s no escape from it.

At some point(s) in our lives, we will all likely be pressed to make decisions that will have huge implications, not only for our own lives, but those lives around us; and higher your title or position, the wider the impact. That was certainly true for Pilate.

Here’s today’s episode: Pilate, Who Condemned Him

Hoping that we all are gaining a clearer view of ourselves this week.

Day 2 – Passion Week w/Sinclair Ferguson – “Peter, Who Denied Him”

Hey TD!

In yesterday’s opening Passion Week podcast, Sinclair Ferguson looked at the final week of Jesus’s life through the eyes of Judas, who betrayed Him. In today’s devotional, he looks through the lens of Peter, who denied Him, and considers the following:

So here’s a question: If you’d encountered both these men, would you have been able to tell that one of them would take his life in despair while the other would be saved? Put it another way: Is the difference between denying Jesus and betraying Jesus a difference in magnitude or a difference in kind? Or put it yet another way: How come Peter denied Jesus and yet was saved, whereas Judas betrayed Jesus and was damned?

Of course, that begs the question … what about me? Where will I be found? While Ferguson cannot answer that question for his listeners, he narrows the scope and gets to the heart of the matter.

Here’s today’s episode: Peter, Who Denied Him

May this Holy Week be one in which you grow in holiness!