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This week Jamie, Kevin, and Mike discuss a little bit of everything. We talk about the State of the Church message that Kevin gave a couple of weeks ago before discussing the most recent sermon in the S.H.A.P.E. series.

That is all a prelude to the fun we have discussing the personality tests that we took. We get into our own personalities, both pros, and cons, as well as getting into some of our spiritual gifts and enneagram numbers. We all feel strongly that understanding your personality helps you understand how to react with people around you, helps you understand your own needs, and helps bring some context to why you do the things you do.

We hope you find value in our discussion about personalities, the state of Calvary, and why the church should be on board in doing things with enthusiasm and excellence. If you have any questions, comments, or want to share some things you may learn about yourself while taking some of these tests, you can always reach us at [email protected] or by messaging us on Facebook or Instagram.

We hope you have a great rest of your week!

If you're interested in taking some personality tests for yourself we've posted the links to the sites where we took our tests below!

Enneagram test --> https://www.yourenneagramcoach.com/

Myers Briggs test --> https://www.16personalities.com/

Shape Pt. 3: Vital Signs by CBC Las Cruces

State of the Church 2020 by CBC Las Cruces

This week Jamie, Kevin, and Mike talk about the trial of Amber Guyger and Brandt Jean's decision to forgive and even hug her after the murder of his brother, Botham Jean.

We discuss the overall topic of forgiveness and also discuss an article written by Jemar Tisby on the trial and the hug/forgiveness.

We also discuss the beginning of the SHAPE series as well as this last Sunday's message on spiritual gifts.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on everything going on in the news as well as the current series we're in and what you think of spiritual gifts. You can always reach us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Instagram.

We hope you all have a great week!

Shape - Pt. 2: Gifts and Giver by CBC Las Cruces

Jamie, Kevin, and Mike are back! It feels good to be recording together again and we have a lot to discuss this week so we hope you're ready!

We briefly revisit the conversation we had last time we recorded together right after the El Paso shooting. We realize that conversation was heavy and there was a lot said, so we felt it was worth checking back in and seeing where we all are now that we're about two months removed from that conversation.

We, then, jump into talking all about Pastor Kevin's last sermon series on Forgiveness. Since we didn't record during that entire series we do a bit of a recap of the entire thing. Thanks to Jamie's note-taking skills we have plenty to talk about and dissect from the last two months of sermons!

We're glad to be back and want to thank you all for your support these last 70-ish episodes. We'll hit episode 100 early in 2020 and we will definitely have something planned for that so stay tuned.

As always, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected], or message us on Facebook or Instagram. We'd love to talk to you all about different things we discuss so feel free to send us your questions, comments, or just random thoughts on things we're talking about, or just subjects you all are thinking about. We'd love to hear them and discuss them!

Thank you all again! We hope you have a great week!

SHAPE - Part 1: Uniquely You by CBC Las Cruces

After a much-needed break, the Afterparty is back! Climate change is an important and somewhat controversial topic. 16-year old activist Greta Thunberg's passionate speech to the United Nations has placed the issue in the headlines once again. What are we to make of climate change? To what extent is our planet changing? To what extent is natural, and to what extent is it caused by humans? How should Christian think theologically about this issue? Kevin sits down with Meteorologist, Anthony Brown to talk about it all!

Jamie and Mike will be back with Kevin in our next episode.

Links:

NASA's view on Climate Change --

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Visual Representation of the earth's warming

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/files/2018/12/spiral_2018_WMO_large.gif

Comical Representation of the earth's warming

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Study on the effects of Carbon Dioxide (Carbonic Acid) from 1896

https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

Another visual representation of climate change. User can select local effects

https://showyourstripes.info/

NOAA resources--

https://www.noaa.gov/categories/climate-change

https://www.noaa.gov/topic-tags/global-warming

Released - Pt. 6: Letting Go and Moving Forward 2/2 by CBC Las Cruces

Released Pt. 5 - Letting Go and Moving On by CBC Las Cruces