For His Service

I was so sad after reading Adeye's post.   She and her husband have bee"n called to adopt many special needs children.   She shares the ups and downs and encourages other families to look at the children that might not otherwise get a home.   After all, the bible does say,   Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after  orphans and widows  in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  (James 1:27).   Do I think everyone should adopt orphans...after all, I have adopted an orphan?    No, I don't .... I think everyone is called to help in some way... Donations to those who do feel called to adopt, feeding of orphans that wouldn't get enough otherwise, clothing them, medical care for them, etc.  (However, adoption isn't the call of 100% of the church body...even if I would choose it to be so).  I see an inflexibility in the Christian body to let the Holy Spirit di...

I literally have been locked out of my blog. It seems that Blogspot updated without telling me.   I also haven't had much time to write down my thoughts.  One of my  friends passed away suddenly, leaving her husband and 4 children behind.  Another one of my friends passed away in her sleep, leaving her husband and 3 children behind.  None of us are promised a day.  We have to choose to do what matters?  What should that be for a believer?   Doing the will of the Father.... What does that look like?  It looks  differently for each believer. You might be called to teach, to lead worship, to adopt, to fight for those who can't fight for themselves (children and animals), to feed the hungry, to take care of those in need...    No mater of what we are called to do, it all should look like service.     Jesus set the tone. Luke 22 14  When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles  reclined at the table.   1...

The Fellowship of the Believers  (Acts 2) 42  They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43  Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44  All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45  They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46  Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47  praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. How cool!  God shows us in Acts the need for the church  to devote itself to  “fellowship.” What do you think about when you hear the word fellowship?   If you are a good old Baptist, you probably think of food. :)     We expect the church to...

“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.” ― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out Grace… it is all grace.   We say it often, but do we really understand what living under grace means?   This is what Beth Moore’s simulcast was about. ...