Thursday, June 30, 2005
I don't own a home in Gainesville right now
Well, at 1pm today I won't. The place where we brought 2 of our children home from the hospital is owned by another. Oh, the faithfulness of God to me, and to my family, that was experienced there. Kim and I have lived under that roof as long as anywhere on earth together. Only our parent's homes have housed us more of our lives. And now it is owned by another. Insert strange, sentimental feelings here.
Distant Relationship with a Loved One
Bono wrote this song while his father was dying w/ terminal cancer
He expresses that strange feeling we all know at some level of not connecting with someone we desperately long to... yet loving them powerfully and wanting that love know
"I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me -when - I -Sing,
you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me"
U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own:
He expresses that strange feeling we all know at some level of not connecting with someone we desperately long to... yet loving them powerfully and wanting that love know
"I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me -when - I -Sing,
you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me"
U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own:
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Comprehensive Coverage
The last verses of psalm 121 exult in the sheer comprehensiveness of God’s care over “you” (in the singular, as if the individual pilgrim is addressed by other pilgrims). “The LORD watches over you” (121:5) — day and night (121:6), your whole life (121:7), in all you do (“your coming and going,” 121:8), “both now and forevermore” (121:8).
This reminded me of the children's encouragement to us Sunday morning... Jesus loves "little me"!
This reminded me of the children's encouragement to us Sunday morning... Jesus loves "little me"!
Seminal Books for Me
definition of seminal from dictionary.com: Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development: example:a seminal idea in the creation of a new theory.
Knowing God, by JI Packer
Desiring God, by John Piper
Truths that Transform, by James Kennedy
Transforming Grace, by Jerry Bridges
....to be continued
Knowing God, by JI Packer
Desiring God, by John Piper
Truths that Transform, by James Kennedy
Transforming Grace, by Jerry Bridges
....to be continued
Put me in coach
Nicole Mytyk thougtht you might be encouraged by this devotional....
MY son had a great first day at basketball camp; however, the second day he came home discouraged. "I didn't make any baskets today," he said. "Two kids on my team just passed the ball to each other, and nobody else got a chance. I was wide open under the basket, too."
Like the two players on my son's team, in churches we sometimes fall into a pattern of involving the same people or working only within one small, familiar group. We may not see a newcomer who longs to be included but has never been asked or a shy person who has attended the church for years but is afraid to volunteer his or her talents.
On the other hand, if I am one of the people who is called upon, I have to guard against thinking, I'm not good enough, or, They don't really want me to help. Perhaps I need to be bolder in showing others I am open to serving. It's not God's plan for a few people and the pastor to do it all.
The church needs all members of the body working together in ministry and mission.
Prayer: Lord, help us to be open to discovering our spiritual gifts and to
use them to serve you within the body of Christ. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Am I open and ready to serve?
-- Cathy Wesolek (New Mexico, U.S.A.)
PRAYER FOCUS: Those feeling left out
MY son had a great first day at basketball camp; however, the second day he came home discouraged. "I didn't make any baskets today," he said. "Two kids on my team just passed the ball to each other, and nobody else got a chance. I was wide open under the basket, too."
Like the two players on my son's team, in churches we sometimes fall into a pattern of involving the same people or working only within one small, familiar group. We may not see a newcomer who longs to be included but has never been asked or a shy person who has attended the church for years but is afraid to volunteer his or her talents.
On the other hand, if I am one of the people who is called upon, I have to guard against thinking, I'm not good enough, or, They don't really want me to help. Perhaps I need to be bolder in showing others I am open to serving. It's not God's plan for a few people and the pastor to do it all.
The church needs all members of the body working together in ministry and mission.
Prayer: Lord, help us to be open to discovering our spiritual gifts and to
use them to serve you within the body of Christ. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Am I open and ready to serve?
-- Cathy Wesolek (New Mexico, U.S.A.)
PRAYER FOCUS: Those feeling left out
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Sunday, June 26, 2005
this week
Tuesday: Women's Study 7:30pm at Staples' home
Wednesday: Night at the Park 6:30-8:30 at Kanapaha Park (This is last chance!)
Thursday:
Friday:
Sunday: 10am worship at Baughman Center on Campus
All week, 9am til NOON, we're co-hosting Vacation Bible School with Faith PRes, at Faith Pres.
Wednesday: Night at the Park 6:30-8:30 at Kanapaha Park (This is last chance!)
Thursday:
Friday:
Sunday: 10am worship at Baughman Center on Campus
All week, 9am til NOON, we're co-hosting Vacation Bible School with Faith PRes, at Faith Pres.
Those 16 points in Acts 13
"This text is utterly saturated with God. Sixteen times Paul presses home the truth that God is the central Actor in history. "--John Piper
History Is God's Story:
History Is God's Story:
Friday, June 24, 2005
Good Things Running Wild
This quote will find itself in the wedding tomorrow
"...The more I considered Christianity; the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. -Orthodoxy"Gems from G. K. Chesterton:
"...The more I considered Christianity; the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. -Orthodoxy"Gems from G. K. Chesterton:
Deep Gladness
Today Kim and I head to St. Augustine where i will officiate the wedding ceremony of 2 of our members, Chris Nyffeler and Anne Osborn. I have deep gladness enjoying this moment as God unites two of His children. Weddings are more and more wetting my appetite for the great Wedding & Wedding Feast to come.
Chris and Anne joined Christ Community as UF students about 3 years ago and Christ Community has played a role in their relationship development. After the wedding they are moving to Palo Alto, California. This is just another way that Christ Community experiences and extends the grace of Jesus Christ.
Chris and Anne joined Christ Community as UF students about 3 years ago and Christ Community has played a role in their relationship development. After the wedding they are moving to Palo Alto, California. This is just another way that Christ Community experiences and extends the grace of Jesus Christ.
Audio Bibles on Tape/CD By Max McLean
It is a recent thing for people to have their own bible... most people in redemptive history have primarily listened to God's word
The reader at this site is part of our Manhattan congregation led by Tim Keller
Also, FYI there are
Bible texts available online
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/
NIV http://www.biblegateway.com/
The reader at this site is part of our Manhattan congregation led by Tim Keller
Also, FYI there are
Bible texts available online
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/
NIV http://www.biblegateway.com/
Thursday, June 23, 2005
A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe
This fall IVP will be publishing A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe: Exploring C.S. Lewis's Classic Story, by Leland Ryken and Marjorie Lamp Mead. Paul Ford, author of Companion to Narnia and Pocket Companion to Narnia, says this book "is the most thorough literary study of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that I have ever read."IVP | A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe
So Simon says, "Read the book in July with Christ Community, get this reader's guide in the fall... THEN see the movie at Christmas."
So Simon says, "Read the book in July with Christ Community, get this reader's guide in the fall... THEN see the movie at Christmas."
This song is cheesy...
Until you love or get loved like he's describing... and it came to mind as i read Acts 13.DAN FOGELBERG Longer Lyrics )
Longer than there’ve been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there’ve been stars up in the heavens
I’ve been in love with you.
Stronger than any mountain cathedral
Truer than any tree ever grew
Deeper than any forest primeval
I am in love with you.
Longer than there’ve been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there’ve been stars up in the heavens
I’ve been in love with you.
Stronger than any mountain cathedral
Truer than any tree ever grew
Deeper than any forest primeval
I am in love with you.
I Love to Tell the Story
This is what happens in Acts 13. There is an old hymn: that contains these words:
"I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God's own holy Word.
I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest."
What i appreciate about these lyrics is that it acknowledges that we who "know the story best" need it "like the rest."
"I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God's own holy Word.
I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest."
What i appreciate about these lyrics is that it acknowledges that we who "know the story best" need it "like the rest."
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Enjoying My Son's IPOD
Sometimes a lyric in a song just grabs your heart and allows me to enter a part of life that has been elusive. Recently these lyrics, heard on my son's ipod, have done this for me. And i'm glad.
"One day you'll look back, and you'll see
Where you were held now by this love." --U2 Mysterious Ways
Derek Webb:
" i trust no other source or name
nowhere else can i hide
this grace gives me fear, and this grace draws me near
and all that it asks it provides"
"One day you'll look back, and you'll see
Where you were held now by this love." --U2 Mysterious Ways
Derek Webb:
" i trust no other source or name
nowhere else can i hide
this grace gives me fear, and this grace draws me near
and all that it asks it provides"
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