Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Our first meet­ing of the Fall Quar­ter was awe­some! We recorded the ser­mon and have it here for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure. You might also want to check out our ser­mon archive (which includes instruc­tions on receiv­ing our ser­mons as a podcast).

Hit­ting the play but­ton above is the eas­i­est way to lis­ten, but if you pre­fer to down­load the mes­sage you can click the link below:

Main­tain a High Spir­i­tual GPA
Length: 33:30
Size: 16 MB
For­mat MP3
Speaker: Glen Davis — 9/28/2005

The GPA acronym in this mes­sage was inspired by David Wheaton’s book Uni­ver­sity of Destruc­tion.

Cook­ies, can­dies, choco­late… who can wait until Halloween?

Come induldge your­self before our first wor­ship ser­vice of the Fall Quar­ter. Sugar-loaded snacks will be served from 7:30 until 8:00, at which point our reg­u­lar meet­ing will begin. If you’re plan­ning to join us, let us know on the Face­book.

Our meet­ings begin with musi­cal wor­ship which is fol­lowed by Bible teach­ing. This week we’ll be talk­ing about what it takes to keep a high spir­i­tual GPA at Stan­ford. The meet­ing will run from 8:00pm to 9:30pm leav­ing you plenty of time to get back for your house meet­ing.

Oh, and there will be healthy alter­na­tives for the non-sugar addicted.

UPDATE: Even Google is excited about our party:

We’ve got pic­tures from Bagels, Donuts, and Other Holy Things online now.

Don’t for­get that our first meet­ing of the year is this Wednes­day (Sep­tem­ber 28th).

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, we med­i­tate on 2 Peter 1:2–3, a prayer for grace and peace. I’m exper­i­ment­ing with drop­ping the back­ground music in favor of brief bumper music at the beginning–let me know what you think.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, we med­i­tate on Eph­esians 3:16–19, a prayer for faith, love and power. I’m exper­i­ment­ing with drop­ping the back­ground music in favor of brief bumper music at the beginning–let me know what you think.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.

If you haven’t had a chance yet, be sure to check out our Face­book Group.

Also, we’re going to have a table set up on White Plaza (cam­pus map, satel­lite photo) pretty much every day of NSO. Please stop by and say hello!

• On Tues­day, you can meet us at the Frosh & Faith Open House on White Plaza from 2–4.
• On Wednes­day, we’ll be out on White Plaza from around 10–2.
• On Thurs­day, we’ll be set up on White Plaza from around 10-noon, and then on Can­field Court for an event called GOALIE from 12-2pm. GOALIE is a grad stu­dent thing (yup–we gots some o’ dem, too). Depend­ing on our level of energy, we might trudge back over to White Plaza at that point. Then again, we might just go sip lattes somewhere.
• On Fri­day, we’ll be back on White Plaza from around 10–2.
• On Sat­ur­day, we’re going to have a brunch pic­nic on White Plaza from 10:30 until noon.

So why are we so obsessed with tables? Do we have stock in some sort of fur­ni­ture com­pany? Not at all–we’re just doing what we can. Con­sider this snip­pet from an official-type email:

[Dur­ing NSO] new stu­dents may not be con­tacted by any stu­dent group, includ­ing SAR orga­ni­za­tions, except as fol­lows:
1) Ads may be placed in the Stan­ford Daily, and fly­ers may be posted around cam­pus through­out NSO.
2) Infor­ma­tion tables are per­mit­ted for SAR orga­ni­za­tions (at their indi­vid­ual ini­tia­tive) in White Plaza, start­ing Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 21.
3) Active recruit­ing and infor­ma­tional efforts will be allowed start­ing Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 24.

Put that through a cost/benefit analy­sis (the Stan­ford Daily is expen­sive, fly­ers are gen­er­ally a waste of time as you’ll soon see–or rather, as you soon won’t) and you quickly real­ize that tables are left as our last, best hope.

Take some time to stop by and make our acquaintance!

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, we med­i­tate on 1 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 5:23–24, a prayer for holi­ness. I’m exper­i­ment­ing with drop­ping the back­ground music in favor of brief bumper music at the beginning–let me know what you think.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, we med­i­tate on 1 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 1:12–13, a prayer for love and resolve. Our back­ground music is Mists of Time, by 4t Thieves.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, med­i­tate on Philip­pi­ans 1:9–11, a prayer for com­pas­sion­ate insight. Our back­ground music comes from release 2 track 7 of the Kavhi col­lec­tive.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.

Wel­come to podX­Ast, a series of brief med­i­ta­tions on the Bible for col­lege students.

On today’s podX­Ast, we return to our exam­i­na­tion of model prayers in the New Tes­ta­ment with a look at Romans 15:13: a prayer for hope, joy and peace. Back­ground music for this episode comes from release 89 track 1 of the Kavhi col­lec­tive.

You can enjoy podX­Ast three ways:

1) Got an iPod or other portable MP3 player? Sub­scribe to the podX­Ast and have it down­loaded to your MP3 player auto­mat­i­cally. The sub­scrip­tion URL is http://xastanford.org/podXAsts/

2) Lis­ten online:

3) Down­load the podX­Ast manually.