http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZZI_coePtc
This is worth clicking on!!
20070730
20070722
Holy?
I'm not blogging about any particular event or anything, I'm just backing my mind up to the hardest thing for me to do PERIOD. I blogged about it on Feb. 27th, 2007...BEING STILL.
Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." It is 5 months later and I at times feel like a potato chip in a tornado!! The good news is, God created me this way, and placed a girl in my life to balance me out/pick up my slack. I now have a family. It is hard, fun, rewarding, challenging, easy, impossible, and great at the same time. As awesome as it is to reach certain goals/milestones with them, it is mind-boggling when I think about all that God has laid on my heart. I have a passion for CHANGE. Not just to be different, but to be effective. The Bible is more than a moral storybook. God is more than a pet rock (or a Webkin for the newest generations). Christianity is not a passing fad. Real people have lived their lives and died for the cause of Christ. So how can I do it??? Dedicate myself to my family, dedicate myself to ministry...etc... Won't my batteries die? I'll get too tired, burned out, washed up and lazy to be effective...OR I can replace ME with HIM!! God will recharge me. In HIM, I am refreshed, renewed, and energized to prioritize the world that I live in. HE will give me wisdom. HE will give me peace. I will lift HIM up. HE will increase. I will decrease. I connect, submit, and become flexible clay. HE takes over and makes me the useful vessel I should be. Part of the connection process for me is Psalm 46:10...I think I'll go pray some more.
God Bless!!
Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." It is 5 months later and I at times feel like a potato chip in a tornado!! The good news is, God created me this way, and placed a girl in my life to balance me out/pick up my slack. I now have a family. It is hard, fun, rewarding, challenging, easy, impossible, and great at the same time. As awesome as it is to reach certain goals/milestones with them, it is mind-boggling when I think about all that God has laid on my heart. I have a passion for CHANGE. Not just to be different, but to be effective. The Bible is more than a moral storybook. God is more than a pet rock (or a Webkin for the newest generations). Christianity is not a passing fad. Real people have lived their lives and died for the cause of Christ. So how can I do it??? Dedicate myself to my family, dedicate myself to ministry...etc... Won't my batteries die? I'll get too tired, burned out, washed up and lazy to be effective...OR I can replace ME with HIM!! God will recharge me. In HIM, I am refreshed, renewed, and energized to prioritize the world that I live in. HE will give me wisdom. HE will give me peace. I will lift HIM up. HE will increase. I will decrease. I connect, submit, and become flexible clay. HE takes over and makes me the useful vessel I should be. Part of the connection process for me is Psalm 46:10...I think I'll go pray some more.
God Bless!!
20070701
Desperation
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change." What are you desperate for? Clothes, relationships, new cell phone, car, popularity, pleasure...etc. What wakes you up in the morning? What excites you? What gives you that "is Christmas here yet" feeling? Make your life different. Get desperate for God. Get desperate for saving lost people. Your life can matter eternally to someone, or you can waste it desperately chasing stuff that will not last. It's your BIG DECISION. The ball is in your court on this one.
SALVAGE...Just ONE real life.
20070514
Hydrate
Hydrate is a cool word. As Christ followers we should hydrate those around us both saved and "LOST"... It's really simple, just like fresh water turns dust to mud and flows to fill containers. When someone around you is having "dry spell" spiritually...hydrate them. That's part of what Pastor Craig means by being a spotter and part of a team!!
20070506
Ministry
Ministry is making a difference in people’s lives. That is the purpose of ministry. I want my life to be significant, so I invest in the lives of other people.
Christianity is about life transformation. It is God’s purpose to transform our minds, actions, and character. His goal is to make us more like Christ. That should be our goal for those around us. We should desire to help each other become more mature in our faith, more like Christ in our character. So we minister or serve one another. We encourage one another. We teach one another. We even admonish one another. In short, we are there for each other.
When I make a difference in someone’s life, I begin a chain reaction. Let's minister together fellowship Church. I believe that impossible things will become commonplace...
Christianity is about life transformation. It is God’s purpose to transform our minds, actions, and character. His goal is to make us more like Christ. That should be our goal for those around us. We should desire to help each other become more mature in our faith, more like Christ in our character. So we minister or serve one another. We encourage one another. We teach one another. We even admonish one another. In short, we are there for each other.
When I make a difference in someone’s life, I begin a chain reaction. Let's minister together fellowship Church. I believe that impossible things will become commonplace...
20070426
Water
John 4:9-11 Message
9The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, "How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (Jews in those days wouldn't be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water."
10Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water."
20070419
Imperfect
I will focus my energy on God!! Life is not about me. I'm a small dot in a very large universe, on a pretty large Planet. No more "mememememememememe" I JUST WANT GOD TO WORK THROUGH ME. Imagine a world changed through imperfect people. Jesus opened the door...check out Romans 8:3+
3-4God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.
The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
5-8Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
our God is Mind-Blowing!! read Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
"Be still, and know that I am God;
3-4God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.
The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
5-8Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
our God is Mind-Blowing!! read Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
"Be still, and know that I am God;
20070417
My Hands are Numb
My hands are literally numb as I type, and I'm not even at Virginia Tech. Until recent events, VT never even crossed my mind. Stuff like this always brings up big questions about God and the "human condition"...I just pray that Christ Followers in the vicinity of VT can patiently show love and compassion in the aftermath of this shooting rampage. If something monstrous happened near us, I would like to see Churches in Habersham County ready to act...think about it as you Pray for the victim's family members at VT.
20070414
Deep Friendships
If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
Directly from The Message (Philippians 2) I'm dwelling on this...it needs no elaboration!
Directly from The Message (Philippians 2) I'm dwelling on this...it needs no elaboration!
20070413
TFK, Toby Mac, Building 429
Super good concert. The Classic Center in Athens is a smokin' venue. The bands were HOT!! Jennifer and I ran in to several friends at the show....what a surprise! Life is GREAT. http://myfcb.org Baldwin, Georgia!!
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