This is a list of the books we have recommended in our prayer letters. This list is partially because I keep forgetting what we have written about and so I wanted a place to reference. Enjoy:

1.Living the Cross Centered Life by CJ Mahaney
2.Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney
3.The Bookends of the Christian Life by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
4.God's Big Picture by Vaughn Roberts
5.How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth by Fee and Stuart
6.The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification by Walter Marshall
7.Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
8.What is the Gospel by Greg Gilbert
9.Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
10.Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll
11.The ESV Study Bible
12.The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

The book recommendations will continue, so please enjoy the Triune Living God through these resources!


In Christ alone,

Josh Holowell

Day of outreach stats for all the campuses with over 2000 students and staff:

2605 Conversations
1219 Gospel Presentations
587 Church Connections
107 Decisions to make Jesus Christ Lord & Savior

Praise Jesus and pray that this day would have a ripple effect in the lives of our students and these people we shared with to continue to share the gospel that the nations would come to know and worship Jesus!


In Christ alone,

Josh Holowell

Indy CC is unique for the Holowell clan this year with little 6 week old Tyko. Our students from Ball State are loving Indy CC, however Tyko does not. He has been a little off and fussy throughout the week which has made the week more difficult for Whitney but the Lord has been faithful and Tyko is getting a lot more comfortable.
As far as the conference goes: awesome! The main speaker Ed has been bringing the Word to us and we have been focusing on our Union with Christ and what that means for our life. In Colossians 3 Paul declares that our life is hidden with God in Christ and that when Christ who is our life appears we will appear with Him. And that reality makes our life Unmistakably different!

Prayer: today is the day of outreach. Pray for the 2000 college students that will be sharing the gospel throughout Indy this afternoon.

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In Christ alone,

Josh Holowell

Well. Staff from our four state region arrived today @ Indy CC! It was a pretty chill day for us just driving from my parents house indy over to the hotel downtown. However, traveling with all of Tyko's things made it quite a trip. We had to pack luggage in and around him so much that we had to take suitcases out to get him in and out!
Tonight we had a staff meeting which was pretty neat. It's cool to get all of our regional staff together and see what God can do in and through us! I'm so excited and will keep updating with prayer requests and stories from the conference. 1st prayer request and praise. We have so many students registered that we only have room for about 50 walk-ins (we normally get about 200)! So praise the Lord that He is bringing students, but pray that He provides housing for all of them.


In Christ alone,

Josh Holowell

25: I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken.

But I am yet young and have seen the righteous forsaken. I have seen one whom we should mark as blameless and he was on whom "the wicked watches for and seeks to put him to death" (v. 32). Yet the Lord did abandon him to the power of the wicked and let him be condemned when he was brought to trial (v. 33). So is the promise void and should I fret at the prosperity of the wicked because the Lord is not just?

For truly there is only one truly righteous man and he was truly forsaken by his own admission. What then of those who are not truly righteous? What then of those who claim to find refuge in God if he cannot uphold his promise to the truly righteous one, who claims to be His one true Son? Does Jesus and the cross make this promise void?

Praise God it is a resounding NO! But how it is a no is the amazing reality of the gospel. You see for God's promise to be true here he must not see Jesus as perfectly righteous on the cross or to forsake him would be a breach of character in God which cannot be for he is unchanging. So God credits him [Jesus] with the sin of the wicked and the curses promised to them rush upon Jesus like unrelenting waves.
Destroyed (38)
Perish (20)
Cursed (22)
Cut off (9, 22, 28, 34, 38)

"God made him who knew no sin to be sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. " (2 Cor. 5:21)

So God credits Jesus with the sins of the wicked and cuts him off, so that the wicked (us) can be counted in the blessings of the righteous (Jesus). These blessings are so numerable in this passage but find their apex in delighting in the Lord! This delight in God is purchased by Jesus being cut off so that we who find refuge in Him may never be fully and truly forsaken.

So Jesus makes God's promise effective. So that God would rescue His people and count them among the righteous by becoming a man and counting himself among the wicked. This is truly Good News (gospel!) for the people of God.

In Christ alone,

Josh Holowell