My heart is weighing heavy on me this morning as I pray for some friend. My meditation today was on two passages of scripture. "...whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 (ESV) "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails..." 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (ESV) I am concerned about the [...]
As is my custom, I tucked my two boys into bed an prayed with them. My sons have gotten into a habbit of thanking God for all of our family and then one by one every animal we have ever had dead and alive. No, this is not going to be a theological discussion on "prayers for the dead." I am always looking for teachable moments. Jonathan (10yrs) begings his prayer and gets to the [...]
In processing my thought from Sunday's message, I began to think about God's glory. What is God's glory? I heard one of the best descriptions of Glory this past week by Jeff kapusta in his message "Why Questions?" Psalm 19:1 (NIV) says, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands." Glory is adoration, affection and bigness. It is the awesomeness of God. I want to see the glory [...]
It is killing me that I have to wait til next season for another episode of Eli Stone. I sat and watched the season finale last night and then Amy and I sat up and watched three more episodes online that we has missed. If you have no idea who Eli Stone is then you need to go online to ABC.com and watch. Short - Eli is a lawyer who begins to have visions, like [...]
So if by definition Christian means "Christ follower" and the Bible tells us to put on Christ and to have the likeness of Christ.....How does your life line up with this definition? If you were Jesus what would you be doing right now? How would you be living right now? What should change about your life in order to be what you really claim to be? Do we really believe if we do not live [...]