Just A Thought

Psalm 139: 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

MY GOD IS A AWESOME GOD!

Thought of the day

Charles H. Spurgeon said;

“He who does not long to know more of Christ knows nothing of Him yet.  Whoever hath sipped this wine will thirst for more,  for although Christ doth satisfy, yet it is such a satisfaction that the appetite is not cloyed by whetted.”

Frank’s Funny

The country pastor started the class with a question.  “Do you know what a ground hog is?”  A youngster from off the farm said;  “sure I do, it’s sausage”!

Something to think on.

What does the Bible say about marriage?

Genesis 2:18 – “It is not good for man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helpmate.”

Genesis 2:24 – “For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh.”

A husband and wife are the closet possible unity, really a single organism.  It is God who brings this union about and it is God who sanctions marriage, and it is God who”knits” the hearts of husband and wife into “one flesh”.  The term that God used is “helper”.  It paints a picture of completion.  Your spouse completes you and therefore makes you more than you were without them.  It is the picture of the completion of God’s creation.  The sacrifice of the son(Jesus) makes the bride (Church) so much more valuable.  Together we are one in the heart of God!

I was Thinking

Could it be said that Moses was one of the most sinful men?  After all he did break all 10 commandments!

James 2:10 ” For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all”.

Isaiah 64:6     “…all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;…”

Gracism

This, I think, is the final installment of the lessons from Disney World.  I have stolen the title from a book I read recently by a pastor named David Anderson.  Disney World, as I have told in the previous two columns (“Disabled at Disney” and “Forgetting Fair”), reaches out to and extends special favor to people with disabilities.  They do so because of the disability.  In his book, Pastor Anderson defines gracism as extending special favor because of someone’s race or ethnicity.  Racism is, of course, the withholding of favor (discriminating) based on race or ethnicity.  Gracism is the exact opposite.  After visiting Disney World, I have seen what gracism looks and feels like in the “real world.”  Many noble, well-meaning people have asked, “How can we treat everyone the same?”  This is especially true in the church.  How can we be equally welcoming to everyone without embarrassing anyone and without pushing anyone away?  It is my observation that treating everyone the same usually comes down to doing the things I like for everyone.  Isn’t this right, you may ask; do unto others as you would have done unto you, right?  The only problem is that not everybody likes the same things I do.  The truth is, the way I want to be treated is for someone to find out what I like and do that.  Herein is the answer to being gracists.  We, especially those of us in the Body of Christ, need to go about finding out what people who are different than us like and deciding to do that even if we don’t like it all that much.  Disney World personnel seem to have asked, “How can we make a visit to Disney World especially magical for people with disabilities?”  While, I don’t know how long it took them to find the answer, I can tell you they have it right!  After being there, I wonder why we as the church are not asking a similar question.  How can we make a visit to meet with this branch of the Body of Christ the most inviting, attractive experience possible?  Then ask it for all kinds of people; those with disabilities, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, low-income, middle-income, high-income, . . . .  The list seems never-ending but the thing is to start with folks we know should be reached and could be reached by us.  The folks who attend my church right now might not really like all the things we would need to do to reach the groups God has placed in our mission field.  Are we willing to get over our own priorities to make people our priority?  We will have to rise above questions of fairness and equality and ask more questions about how we can elevate someone else’s needs and wants above our own.  I can tell you, as a recipient of this treatment, it is like nothing else.  It also makes me want to go back!  I think it might have the same effect on people who walk in our church.

Verse by Verse

John 14:26 NKJV  “But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things that I said to you.”

Just thinking

Luke 6:38      Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

These are our Lord’s words to us.

Frank’s Funny

Please open following funny.  UHBC is now serving coffee after the sermon.  This is to get people fully awake before driving home!

Just a Verse 2 Timothy 3:1-5

3:1  But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3  unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4  treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5  holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.

Sounds like the year 2010!

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