Ask Not
9/08/19 Ask Not But following Jesus requires more. It requires getting up. It requires leaving; leaving comfort, family, friends and that which you enjoy, how you occupy your spare time.
9/08/19 Ask Not But following Jesus requires more. It requires getting up. It requires leaving; leaving comfort, family, friends and that which you enjoy, how you occupy your spare time.
To God, it's not important where you sit or what your earthly status is. service to others is more important in God's kingdom than a person's status.
We Christians may be able to talk the Christian talk, but when it comes right down to it, can we walk the Christian walk, especially when it doesn't fit into our schedule or may be inconvenient?
8/18/19 Eating the Elephant I recently had one tearful woman promise to come back if she needed anything else. Her desperation was palpable, so intense and real, as real as her tears.
We must remember that God always provides what his church needs, whether it is the greater church, or the church in Antioch, or the little church located at 130 Church Lane, Port Hadlock, Washington.
But we're not about the status quo, especially when it doesn't serve God's most vulnerable children. Our calling is about hope and change. Hope for the hopeless and change for the last, the least and the lost.
7/14/19 Keeping the Faith I think the crux of the issue is that we have to remember that God's word is not just for our information, it's for our transformation.
The seeds of neglect, apathy, indifference and inattention that were planted years ago are about to produce a harvest of monumental human tragedy, and it should be our call to action just as it was for John Wesley over 200 years ago.
If we want the fruit of the Spirit to grow in us, we must join our lives to his. We must know him, love him, remember him, and imitate him because faith without works is dead.
6/16/2019 Building Character People will look at how you handle your misfortune with grace and humility and will say to themselves that there must be something to this God thing.