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Wilderness and Solitude
Very few of us in today's Western culture seek true solitude, let alone experience it. Mobile phones, tablets, laptops, HD televisions and other devices keep us plugged into the information matrix, overloading our systems on a daily basis. We are tired, burned out and exhausted at this pace of life.
The wilderness, in its quiet beauty, shouts at us to be still.... and know that He is God. Psalm 46:10
Nothing but the sound of a bubbling creek and the wind dancing through the pines for hours, while cathedrals of rock loom overhead. That is wilderness.
These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.- Donald Miller - Through Painted Deserts: Light, God and Beauty on the Open Road
Wilderness gives us a unique encounter with timelessness, where the scale of who God is and what He has done dwarfs any notions of man and our busyness. Solitude resets our timeclock. It connects us to the Creator in a very deep and personal way.
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.†―Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
We will challenge you to spend some quality solitude time alone with God at Peak Challenge. It may just be the best thing you have ever done.
David LeFevre - Band of Brothers Houston - on Peak Challenge
David will give one of the messages at Peak Challenge. The Houston crew is coming in force this year!
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?â€
“The most important one,†answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ' Love all your neighbors as yourself'" -- Mark 12:28-31 NIV with edits
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Coming Soon...... more info on whitewater rafting and other excursions that will be available to you at Peak Challenge. We will get you information on how to sign up and pay for those excursions and some background on what to expect and what to bring.
