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Current 2 June 5, 2008
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Kara Heiser, Editor
Alex Amela
Kelly Chase
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Adelaide Tillinghast
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next issue: September 2008
OpiniOn
adeeperlook
The alpha and the omega:
the God who finishes what he starts
This
Q&A
Sam Pomeroy
Contributing Writer
Our culture is focused on the product. The end
result is the primary thing examined, and often times
it is irrelevant how the product reached its' finished
state. Anywhere from building ipods, building
skyscrapers, or even building a better you by surgeries
and procedures—each thing is constructed with one
purpose: to reach the product.
Is not the purpose of starting a task, a project
or an idea to finish it? We as humans seek product.
And so if things have an end, they indeed must have
a beginning as well.
Products that are left unfinished are discarded,
deleted or destroyed. It is natural and it makes sense.
No one wants an ipod that has no display screen. No
one wants a skyscraper without stairs. Imagine if you
went to the car dealership and the salesman tried to
sell you a car that was missing the tires!
The unfinished product is a reflection upon
the producer: if a product is unfinished, the producer
itself is of no value.
In the strictest sense of the term, God is a
producer, a creator. The first chapter of the Bible is
year has flown by and
the journalism staff wants
to take a retrospective
point of view in this final
issue of Current for this
year. Whether your best
memory is a school
dance, a mission trip or achieving that 110
percent in a class, it’s always worth while to
take your past memories out of the attic and
dust them off. For the sake of nostalgia in this
issue, the Current staff asks,
What is your favorite memory of this year?
one big exaltation of God’s creative powers. If one
studies the Bible, it is evident that the God in control
is a God that has a plan from beginning to end. The
Bible is not a confusion of choices; it is a story of
grace. Knowing a God that planned each life and
each event down to the pinprick is something that
we cannot fathom.
Know one thing: that when you become a
Christ follower, He starts something. He starts a
transformation, a process you will undergo for the
rest of your life. The start marks the beginning of
your own adventure with Christ. And as the God who
finishes what He starts, He wants to finish what He
started in you.
God loves you; He loves His creation. He made
you with a specific purpose and He is preparing and
transforming you into who He has called you to be.
Yet, here is the truth: God cannot finish what He
started if you do not give Him control and give Him
first place in your life.
If God has started something in you, it is the
cry of His heart that you may follow Him with your
life so that He may take joy in finishing in you what
He started so long ago.
. . . Musicale,
because we got to
be judged for real,
and the food was
amazingly good.
hayley Jensen
Grade 9
. . . the missions
trip, because
it was a great
experience and I
got to serve other
people.
Cameron Kesinger
Grade 9