I am at a gathering for senior high youth in the SW Texas Synod. Peter Eide is here to lead worship and concerts, and tonight he gave a wonderful talk about how we are all able to seize our destiny and grasp the feather and follow God… He told us a story of a kingContinue reading “Feather Blower or Feather Grabber”
Category Archives: Thoughts and Wonderings
Correction!?
Why is it that we are so quick to see the sin in another and seem to miss it in our selves? Do no try to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye until you have removed the plank form yours! We all have to be willing to hear the words that convict us ofContinue reading “Correction!?”
Necessity of Prayer
Pray is necessary for our lives to be connected with God, however I agree with Charles Spurgeon, that necessity and prayer do not really go together. If prayer is a necessity for you, maybe some reevaluation needs to happen. In an excerpt from Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures To My Students he speaks about prayer, and ourContinue reading “Necessity of Prayer”
What is it that drives you?
What keeps us going in life? There are so many things that could drag us down and make us just despise life and run away and hide. What is it that keeps you going through the stuff of life that we all wish would just go away? It is interesting to think about this forContinue reading “What is it that drives you?”
Have we forgotten our first love?
Revelation chapter 2 starts the writings to the 7 churches and it starts with the church in Ephesus. Oh to be like one in Ephesus. The report sounds so good. “I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance.” We are working for the lord and enduring through what seems to be an endlessContinue reading “Have we forgotten our first love?”
Mushroom eater
I started reading the Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus, and this is a great book. Erwin talks about how Christianity has become civilized and we are expecting to be kept safe in the arms of our savior, and if we are in the center of the will of God, then we will be safe. BecauseContinue reading “Mushroom eater”
Spoiled?
Are we spoiled?Or do we maybe just take our world and technology for granted. I mean look around at the wonderful things we get upset about if we do not have it. Television for one. I know I complained about the switch to DTV because we lost all of our channels except 27. We evenContinue reading “Spoiled?”
Sin and lashing out…
I find it amazing the way we let things take over our lives. Sin is that very thing that makes us turn in on ourselves and look at things in a way that God did not intend for them to be. Over the past 2 days I have had to reload my laptop twice. OnceContinue reading “Sin and lashing out…”
Looking the wrong way?
Are we going about this the wrong way. We will not let people into the assembly until they fix this or that behavior…We are very quick to point out what is wrong in the others life and not dwell on our own sin…Jesus spent time with those that the Pharisees did not see as peopleContinue reading “Looking the wrong way?”
Why do we say what we say…
I have started reading The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren. He says on page 33 “Or else he was a teacher whose words would be quoted to condemn people our church or denomination didn’t approve of.” He is of course speaking of Jesus here, and I can see what McLaren means about usingContinue reading “Why do we say what we say…”
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