Haley Nus

November 2021 Monthly Summary

This month, I savored my students, my friends, rest, and about 9 days in Scotland! This post is a few days late so that I could process all the things that happened when I was in Glasgow with the Global Prophetic Alliance’s Emerging Prophet’s program. Good news! This month, I found out that I’ve beenContinue reading “November 2021 Monthly Summary”

True Riches: Overcoming Poverty of Spirit

If a person has the Holy Spirit through their faith in Christ (Acts 2:38, John 14:26), they have become like a rich person and are forever defined by their spiritual inheritance, which they receive from God (Romans 8:17, John 14:23).

The Hope of Christ and True Transformation

Within our pluralistic society, the exceedingly bold declaration that Jesus is the Light is just as controversial as it would have been in John’s pluralistic first century context (5:1). Similarly, one can easily misquote John’s thesis that “God is love” (4:16-17) by making God an impersonal, de-centralized life force, similar to the Buddhist concept of vijñāna. Is light an abstract term, or is Light a person? How do we define love? According to John, we can know God relationally through the person of Jesus (4:17). John asserts that the only true enlightenment is by God’s Holy Spirit, that “testifies that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh” (4:2). Instead of an ephemeral, vaguely spiritual Savior, we have a Savior who did not come by water only (baptism), but by water and blood (birth) (5:6).

The Many Ways the Holy Spirit has made my Students Hungry for the Bible in 2021

During quarantine, many of us were hungry for anything that would make life satisfying. Both adults and children found themselves hungry and grieving for something that many of us struggle to articulate. The bible says that the words of God are life. Similarly, the Holy Spirit he gives us is the water of life. InContinue reading “The Many Ways the Holy Spirit has made my Students Hungry for the Bible in 2021”

Creating Watercolored Area Models of our Church

On the morning of October 22nd, my flock of Fourth graders arrived early to mass. Clipboards in hand, they had come to answer a challenging question: Using COVID guidelines for seating, how many students can sit in the pews at Sacred Heart Church? In order to complete this task, students needed to be able toContinue reading “Creating Watercolored Area Models of our Church”