Chinese Bible Study

Welcome back everyone to a new spring semester!  The weekly updates will start coming out regularly again, so please keep an eye out for all that will be going on in CBS and on campus and what to be praying for!

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, January 21, (5:30 – 7:00 PM) @ RPCC
  • North Dinner
• Thursday, January 22, (4:30 PM) @ Sage Chapel
  • Prayer Meeting
• Friday, January 23, (7:00 PM) @ Phillips 101
  • Large Group Gathering (Coordinators, Semester Introduction)
• Sunday, January 25, (4:30 PM) @ Eddygate 2E
  • Open Servant Team Meeting

Announcements

• Sunday, January 25, (1:00 PM) @ Barton Hall
  • Spring Clubfest
• Friday, January 30, (7:30 PM) @ Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall
  • Institute of Biblical Studies: Can We Still Believe the Bible? Canon, Transmission, and Translation
  • This year, the IBS speaker is New Testament scholar Dr. Craig Blomberg, and he will be tackling questions swirling around the formation of the New Testament canon. He has been teaching for many years and his writings cover the Gospels, Jesus & his parables, holiness, the historic reliability of Scripture, and much more.

Article of the Week

You’re Not Too Busy for the Bible

Prayer Requests

• Pray for resolution in the conflict between ISIS and Japan regarding the Japanese hostages, that this conflict does not break out to become something much larger.
• Pray for the oil spill in Yellowstone that all the residents and nature in the area are able to stay safe.
• Praise the Lord for the Supreme Court ruling in favor of more religious freedom in prisons. May this help to further His kingdom in more ways beyond the States eventually.
• Pray for this spring semester to be a time in which God will challenge us to grow in our faith and character and for us to rise up to the challenge.

Praises & Thanksgiving

• God brought some of us together for warm fellowship, rest, and direction during winter retreat.
• God has provided us with safe travels back to Ithaca and warmth/protection in this cold weather.
• God listens to us and hears our cries and acts accordingly (Luke 18:7-8).

In Christ,

Stephen & Jevon

CBS Winter Retreat 2015 [10/17], PC: Zoe Chan

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts,kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, whichbinds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:12-17)