Eternal Significance

What a privilege it is EACH day to be able to pray for our children, for their present and their future - that they will learn his ways, come to know him personally, thrive in their walks and serve him without hindrance all the days of their lives. These are precious days, and what a huge responsibility we’ve been given to make these children disciples of our Lord. We should take advantage of every day to instill God’s love and truth in them. It will surely be of eternal significance and blessing, both for them and for us.

Andy

Spread the Word

Spread the Word – Let the water flow!

This is what sacrificial giving is all about....

With This Ring

God Equips

God equips those in which He calls.

Bishop Lester

What Can Christians Do?

Work Hard
The Bible is clear that sloth is sin. Use whatever talent you have fully. If wealth comes to you, that is wonderful. Give your best at what you do as if working unto the Lord.

Live Right
Realize that the important matters in life are character, your soul, and how you treat others, not your material possessions.

Share Much
Our responsibility is to be generous so that the Lord's work is accomplished and those who suffer are lifted up. Only by understanding the principles of humility and sacrifice can we grasp the true message of Christianity.

In reality, we know the real cure for all the social sins we deal with daily is the change within the heart of each individual. We have that medicine with the message of salvation in Jesus Christ and the simple question, "What would our Leader do?"

Christian Standard Magazine, May 13, 2007

An Unexpected Visitor

As I was sitting there feeding Joseph, someone knocked on our door. I had a hungry kid on my hands, but with the dog barking and my inquisitive spirit, I just had to go answer it.

It was a young man, in a dark long coat. I could tell immediately he was a Jehovah's Witness. He was very nice and approachable. Someone I could have a conversation with.

But I didn't.

He asked me a question. I answered. My answer showed I could most likely hold my ground in a theological debate with him if necessary. So, he gave me a piece of literature and moved along quickly.

Why did I let him go? Why didn't I try and talk about our different beliefs?

I felt completely unprepared to strick up a conversation with him and to stand for what I believed and to point out the differences between the two of us. I used to know them, I used to have them down pat. I don’t anymore. How sad.

When I’m faced with a person I could have shared the TRUTH with, I was unprepared…

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2

I get so wound up in my day-to-day life of nursing and bottom wiping I forget that God desires of me to still be prepared for my interactions with people who actually can speak in more than 5 word sentences.

Lord, thank you for this gentle reminder that I need to be prepared in and out of season to share YOUR TRUTH with those who are in the dark and to let YOUR LIGHT shine through me in EVERY interaction I have with others.

Not A Bit of It

My Utmost For His Highest - Oswald Chambers
October 23

NOT A BIT OF IT!

"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away." 2 Corinthians 5:17

Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite sure that God will never deal with us as He has to deal with other people. "God must deal with other people in a very stern way, but of course He knows that my prejudices are all right." We have to learn - "Not a bit of it!" Instead of God being on the side of our prejudices, He is deliberately wiping them out. It is part of our moral education to have our prejudices run straight across by His providence, and to watch how He does it. God pays no respect to anything we bring to Him. There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender.

When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new creation in us, and there will come a time when there is not a bit of the old order left, the old solemnity goes, the old attitude to things goes, and "all things are of God." How are we going to get the life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to pokes, the love that is not provoked, that thinketh no evil, that is always kind? The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left; but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer want God's blessings, but only want Himself. Have we come to the place where God can withdraw His blessings and it does not affect our trust in Him? When once we see God at work, we will never bother our heads about things that happen, because we are actually trusting in our Father in Heaven Whom the world cannot see.

Business

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

Matthew Henry