"God's pattern is to make you strong - so you are useful."
~ Eric Ludy ~
Bravehearted Gospel and Ellerslie Mission
http://ellerslie.com/The_Ellerslie_Passion.html
~ Eric Ludy ~
Bravehearted Gospel and Ellerslie Mission
http://ellerslie.com/The_Ellerslie_Passion.html
Ladies,
It was so nice to have you in our home last night (May 2010). I'm thankful for those of you who took time to make it.
I need to catch you gals up to speed:
The biggest change is that there will not be a typical V-CHE Tuesday class next year. These class sessions are scheduled to be recorded on MP3 media and will be available throughout the year online on a new V-CHE website (in development - to be launched sometime in September). This material will now be called V-CHE PRIME. PRIME will open this clarion call and information to any and all on the world wide web. Perhaps the year to follow will allow more confidence and ability in hosting a series of webinars - only God knows. May the Lord alone be magnified in this and may His people be emboldened to live out a biblical worldview for the benefit and joy of others.
2010-2011 will be a 'closed session' of intensive learning, fellowship, and accountability. It is called V-CHE AMBITIOUS. Many Christians have a negative, visceral reaction when they think of ambition - and this reaction is off base. We should be ambitious! Ambitious for God. Ambitious for being all God has designed us to be - for His glory, our joy, and the good of our neighbor. Ambitious for the integrity and craft and calling of our family to advance His kingdom in wartime. We ARE at war. Dare I admonish you - - - we are to be ambitious! This is part of loving our God. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27 esv)
We will be reading a critical selection of books this next year in AMBITIOUS. A book club, of sorts. Here is the syllabus of books for 2010-2011:
Sept - Let Us Highly Resolve by David Quine
When A Nation Forgets God by Dr. Erwin Lutzer
Oct - Real Family Values by Robert Lewis
Nov - The Bravehearted Gospel by Eric Ludy
Dec - The Me I Want to Be by John Ortberg
Jan - Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
Womanly Dominion by Mark Chansky
Feb - The Radical Disciple by John Scott
The Discipleship Handbook by Dr. Peter Hammond
Mar - Assumptions by Christian Overman
Apr - Serious Times by James Emery White
May - Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris
All but two books are available through CBD online (http://www.christianbooks.com/) and on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/). Few are available as used books, as they are largely newly published books. Please understand, they are less expensive overall to buy at once (due to shipping), but may certainly be purchased monthly or by semester. There is no registration fee for next year. Books are tuition enough....
Scholarships (partial and full) are available for those who have need and who are accepted into the study.
V-CHE AMBITIOUS will be open only to those who have completed V-CHE PRIME in good faith and diligence. You must apply to participate. I will be the only person reading and making decisions in this application process. The application is attached. PLEASE DO NOT BE OVERWHELMED BY THE APPLICATION. Some ladies last night mentioned this application was more 'intense' than their bible college application. (That's sad, isn't it.) The questions are useful in assessing your level of personal interaction with the content covered in V-CHE and your commitment level for this next year. Be honest with yourself and with me. I am not legalistic.
The bar is raised in V-CHE AMBITIOUS. This level of commitment and accountability will not be appealing to everyone. We understand that. There is a season for everything. This is our season to rejuvenate and regroup; it may be your season to cut out everything that is extra in order to focus on the quiet importance in your life. THAT'S A GOOD THING!
Our ultimate accountability is to the Lord. We are to do all we do as unto Him - not as unto man. Diligence and excellence, not perfection. Whether you've attended V-CHE for the past 5 years in Wichita or this was your first year, I heartily encourage you to pray about joining us next year.
In the end, this next year will not be me teaching. We will be sisters in the Lord sharpening one another as iron sharpens iron; encouraging faithfulness to God, to self, to family, and to culture, and fanning the flame of one another. 2010-2011 will be relational and intimate. We will meet once a month in the comfort of my living room. We will stimulate. We will think. We will challenge. We will rejoice. We will cry. We will pray. We will laugh. We will exhort.
http://ellerslie.com/The_Ellerslie_Passion.html
Watch INTERCESSION. Eric Ludy - The Bravehearted Gospel.
Despise not the young!
This breaks me....
Let's close in the breach! Let's soak our shields in water and lock arms and advance! (Thank you Heather!) No holes. No breaches! No woman left behind.
Let's endeavor to be useful to God - outward focused. May we be strong, so we are useful. May we prayerfully consider locking arms as warrior sisters in Christ for our families and for our church and for our culture - for the joy of the nations - for His name sake.
My heart is full of love for you girls.
Scholarships (partial and full) are available for those who have need and who are accepted into the study.
V-CHE AMBITIOUS will be open only to those who have completed V-CHE PRIME in good faith and diligence. You must apply to participate. I will be the only person reading and making decisions in this application process. The application is attached. PLEASE DO NOT BE OVERWHELMED BY THE APPLICATION. Some ladies last night mentioned this application was more 'intense' than their bible college application. (That's sad, isn't it.) The questions are useful in assessing your level of personal interaction with the content covered in V-CHE and your commitment level for this next year. Be honest with yourself and with me. I am not legalistic.
The bar is raised in V-CHE AMBITIOUS. This level of commitment and accountability will not be appealing to everyone. We understand that. There is a season for everything. This is our season to rejuvenate and regroup; it may be your season to cut out everything that is extra in order to focus on the quiet importance in your life. THAT'S A GOOD THING!
Our ultimate accountability is to the Lord. We are to do all we do as unto Him - not as unto man. Diligence and excellence, not perfection. Whether you've attended V-CHE for the past 5 years in Wichita or this was your first year, I heartily encourage you to pray about joining us next year.
In the end, this next year will not be me teaching. We will be sisters in the Lord sharpening one another as iron sharpens iron; encouraging faithfulness to God, to self, to family, and to culture, and fanning the flame of one another. 2010-2011 will be relational and intimate. We will meet once a month in the comfort of my living room. We will stimulate. We will think. We will challenge. We will rejoice. We will cry. We will pray. We will laugh. We will exhort.
http://ellerslie.com/The_Ellerslie_Passion.html
Watch INTERCESSION. Eric Ludy - The Bravehearted Gospel.
Despise not the young!
This breaks me....
Let's close in the breach! Let's soak our shields in water and lock arms and advance! (Thank you Heather!) No holes. No breaches! No woman left behind.
Let's endeavor to be useful to God - outward focused. May we be strong, so we are useful. May we prayerfully consider locking arms as warrior sisters in Christ for our families and for our church and for our culture - for the joy of the nations - for His name sake.
My heart is full of love for you girls.
"God, you have made this life; and you have called me for more than just to save me. You have rescued me so that I can become a rescuer. Who needs rescue? Who needs help? Who needs me to stand in the gap and take the hit?.... When you behold Christ, you will say, 'God - do it ALL within me - - - for Your glory. Make me strong. Make me strong to give.'"
~ Eric Ludy ~
The Bravehearted Gospel
"Intercessor"
Serving His Kingdom Here and Now ~
Jill Grier
Visionary Christian Home Educators
http://www.livingwaters.com/good/
http://reformedgirlcrusader.blogspot.com/
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Isaiah 58:11-12
“I am. I can. I ought. I will." ~ Charlotte Mason
Visionary Christian Home Educators
http://www.livingwaters.com/good/
http://reformedgirlcrusader.blogspot.com/
http://www.carepages.com/carepages/NicholasWilliamBraveheart
www.V-CHE.info
Isaiah 58:11-12
“I am. I can. I ought. I will." ~ Charlotte Mason
