The 167: November 21, 2019
This past Sunday was confirmation Sunday- 7 students confirmed their faith and told us how we could pray for them. We as a church family can now in turn ask ourselves these very same questions and confirm our faith. Start with the easy question-What is your favorite book of the Bible? Why? Then move to the harder questions. When did you realize your need for to be reconciled with God through Jesus? What is the hardest part of following Jesus- prayer, service, thoughts, study of God’s Word? And finally a good follow up question. How can the church pray for you? These are questions to probe...
Read MoreThe 167: July 11, 2019
How are you doing on your journey to becoming more like Jesus? “How goes your walk” This last week I shared several ways to dig into the Word of God. God wants a relationship with us and has offered us ways to know HIM through reading HIS gift to us, the Bible. Here are the suggestions: take a chunk of scripture, the Psalm from this past week, or the first chapter of the gospel of John. Dig in… Ask God to instruct you Ask yourself what lens are you looking through- What is God’s intent? Ask in community because sometimes we can get things wrong (be humble) Read rigorously, do you...
Read MoreThe 167: March 28, 2019
How is your walk? As we learned this last week, from Megan Burch, families in Uganda and Kenya walk many miles each day, just for water. The insights she offered brings a perspective that many of us cannot comprehend. The scriptures instruct “to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God” Micah 6;8. How did you do this week? Megan gave us a list of verbs; did you find one to challenge your heart this week? The list included: walk, sacrifice, give, love and show mercy. World vision ask us to be involved with walking for water, did you sign up? What part of the week...
Read MoreThe 167: March 14, 2019
How do you use your hours between Sundays? 167 hours between church services appears to be enough hours to accomplish great things. However, often I return the following week wondering where did the time go? What did I do with my minutes? Then the guilt engulfs my thoughts and replies “nothing.” Oh, sure I made 42 meals, did laundry, drove in circles, and, ummmm, not sure what else. This realization haunts me for a minute or two, and I say to myself, next week will be different. What should I be accomplishing in those hours? How do I worship throughout the week? How do I choose to invest...
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