Brick Lane Community Church

J-Curve Session 12: (Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cQs0crCJ4 It’d be easy to assume that once a resurrection has taken place following some particular suffering, that the suffering has served its purpose and should be removed. So often that is not the case. Let’s consider today how we should be thinking when the suffering simply continues. #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 11: (Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 11 Revisited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc7ECYvlncQ Those of you who were with us last week may remember that we really never made it to our chapter. We got into some fairly deep discussion regarding what the people in our class are wrestling through. This week we jump back into chapter 11. In chapter 10 PM showed us past J Curves and also introduced us to three different kinds of present J Curves: the suffering J Curve, the love J Curve, and the repentance J Curve. This week we’ll begin to see, through the life of Joni Eareckson Tada, how we can be experiencing multiple J Curves at the same time, and how one J Curve can spill over into another and by so doing can real help and resurrection. #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 10: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 11 In chapter 10 Paul Miller showed us past J Curves and also introduced us to three different kinds of present J Curves: the suffering J Curve, the love J Curve, and the repentance J Curve. This week we’ll begin to see, through the life of Joni Eareckson Tada, how we can be experiencing multiple J Curves at the same time, and how one J Curve can spill over into another and by so doing can real help and resurrection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJ3vJMSCEc #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 9: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 10 Not every J Curve shares that same origin. Some suffering comes to us unsought and from a source we haven’t expected. Some suffering we enter because of sacrificial love. We carry, absorb and pay the freight for suffering that we see in those for whom we care. But often, the most poignant forms of suffering come as a result of the sinful inclinations still alive and well within us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mfV8FGKg2M #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 8: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 9 What happens if we camp out on justification by faith and reject suffering as something foreign and poisonous? Pride and selfishness flourish in this kind of environment and we fall far short of growing in Christlikeness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y04XQj94Zg #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 7: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 8 What happens if we attempt to enter into J Curve living without first understanding and embracing justification by faith? We’ll look through the lives of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther to discover that endless suffering apart from the finished work of Christ will do much to destroy hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GyFmbEG-0w #bricklanecommunitychurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 6: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 7 There is a vast difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Jesus. To know Jesus is to become like him by sharing in his suffering. There are elements of his character that you and I will never develop if we insist on continuing to hold suffering at arm’s length. We want to become like Jesus in every way, and in doing so, to model his gospel to the world around us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-0NnE2phU #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 4: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 5 What makes you a person with gravitas? Where do you find your identity when you feel it’s important that others know who you are? The kingdom of God is counter-intuitive. The way up is actually down. Identifying with Jesus in his sufferings offers us the opportunity to participate in an eternal kingdom that offers us more than we’ve yet dared imagine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUPLB3jjl8 #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller #pastormattcarter

J-Curve Session 3: Pastor Matt Carter, Chapter 4 We can only embrace J Curve living if we actually believe that our significance and standing are already fully established in the finished work of Christ. The justification that Jesus alone can provide us is sufficient to bear us up under suffering. Find out what a Dixie cup has to do with righteousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gzwO-bAW-g #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller

J-Curve Session 2: Larry Kenney, Chapters 2-3 Paul Miller’s trip to Florida with Kim provides vivid demonstrations of the substitutionary nature of love. We’ll see demonstrations of that same love in the books of Colossians and Philemon as well as in Paul Miller’s trip into the snow to check on a beloved sheep. We’ll spend the second half of our time considering what we often practice instead of substitutionary love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUrFOKKI0EY #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller

J-Curve Session 1: Pastor Matt Carter, Class Introduction and Chapter 1 We’ll introduce the J Curve through the lens of a trip that Paul Miller took to Florida with a daughter affected by multiple disabilities. We’ll consider the various elements of a J Curve, and why we should view various forms of suffering as a normal part of the Christian life. We don’t embrace suffering with a stoic or fatalistic mindset, but with the great hope that suffering will always lead to beautiful resurrections along the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV0eb-oH4us #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller

J-Curve Session Class Recordings with Pastor Matt Carter The class content, taken from the book, J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life, by Paul Miller, maps the ups and downs of daily life onto the story of Jesus. The content of J-Curve is excellent because it is both helpful for people who are seeking God and for seasoned Christians alike! View the J-Curve Session playlist on YouTube with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwhlfkGA1JLzU0xFqwqzrNAwahlI7JIQS We’ll be posting individual J-Curve session videos at various intervals as well. #bricklanecommunitychurch #bricklanechurch #elverson #pennsylvania #jcurve #paulmiller