Author: Adam

  • Pumpkin Carving ’09

    As October comes to an end we have our annual Harvest Party. In preparation for the party we carve pumpkins a week before the event. The pumpkin designs are to match the Harvest Party theme. This year’s theme is Fairy Tales. The Big Bad Wolf

  • History Night 2009

    Anticipation builds each year as October approaches because our community gathers for our annual History Night.  With a special meal, stories, pictures and sharing we remember God’s faithfulness through the years. This year we explored our how our mission as a community has developed. Community is not simply a novel calling, but a fulfillment of…

  • Who Am I?

    I’ve enjoyed reading Joel Green’s Body, Soul, and Human Life.  While I can’t say I fully understand or agree with everything I’ve read, it has been very helpful in connecting the dots of several concepts, particularly, how we are to think about ourselves.  Green makes the case that we shouldn’t see ourselves in a Cartesian…

  • Where are you being formed?

    “For 1 Peter, then, human life is life on the potter’s wheel, so to speak – being shaped one way or the other, by the ancestral ways expressed in taken-for-granted social conventions, or by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit and the formative influence of the people of God. Humans act out of their…

  • God’s Good – Scarcely Imagined

    “Like those who live with life-long disease, humans easily adjust their lives to account for their maladies. The human family can scarcely imagine what the freedom to chose God’s ‘good’ would be, so much has humanity adapted itself to estrangement and alienation.” Joel B. Green, Body, Soul, and Human Life

  • Justification

    I recently read N.T. Wright’s book, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision. His driving force for this book is a response to a book published in 2007 by Dr. John Piper called, The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright, which probes the foundations of Wright’s understanding of Paul and if this is…

  • Fun on the Mullica

    We decided to do something different for Celebration Night and go swimming in the Mullica River. As you can see, it was an absolutely beautiful evening and we all had a lot of fun together.

  • Embrace judgment

    As Christians we are not delivered from God’s judgment. Because of the kindness and mercy of our God our judgment is transformed to discipline. Sin is unthinkably destructive. Because it causes suffering it can’t be ignored or flippantly passed over. It will not do to just receive a clean bill of health when the cancer…

  • Audio – More Human

    [audio:http://life-mission.org/media/akrell/morehuman.mp3] Download Mp3 This is a recent message I gave on Christ becoming fully human so we could become more human.

  • Monochromatic Drawings

    These drawings were done by our 3rd and 6th grade art class earlier this year. They are monochromatic drawings using white colored pencil on black construction paper, which is different than most monochromatic drawings that are usually done on white paper with gray or black pencils.