Is it vision? Is it imagination? Is it inspiration?
Maybe it’s the pressure of expectation. Maybe it’s all about the process, and not so much about the fulfillment.
Maybe it’s for someone else.
Whatever it is, I don’t know how to define it any longer.
I. The Nature of Grace
1. Grace is God acting freely, according to His own nature of Love; with no promises or obligations to fulfill; and acting of course, righteously – in view of the Cross.
2. Grace, therefore, is uncaused in the recipient: its cause lies wholly in the GIVER, in GOD.
3. Grace, also is sovereign. Not having debts to pay, or fulfilled conditions on man’s part to wait for, it can act toward whom, and how, it pleases. It can, and does, often, place the worst deserver in the highest favor. Read more »
This a plea. It is shameless.
We are suffering from a stinky economy.
There is still time.
These are life-transforming opportunities.
Four of my children have been on 2-month long mission trips overseas. Phebe went to Egypt and worked in an orphanage. Evan went to the outback of Australia and built an airstrip. Katie went elsewhere in Australia and did evangelism and painting. Dylan went to Cambodia and poured the 2nd floor for a Bible School there.
This summer, two of my children are desiring to return. They have both raised over 50% of their support. They still need a lot more.
Dylan is going to Papua. He will be sleeping in a tent and bathing in a bucket while he’s there. His team is helping to construct a facility for a Bible School. There are already Bible School students there, but they don’t have a facility to hold their classes in. Towards the end of the project, Dylan’s team will join these students from Papua and will head out to do evangelism on the Spice Islands.
Dylan still needs $2300.00
http://teenmissions.org/teams/09018-papua/
Katie is going to Malawi. She is on, what they call a “foot washing” team. They bring with them, hundreds of pairs of shoes, socks and medical supplies. Since their baggage is limited, and they need to bring the shoes, each team member can only bring enough personal items to fit into a back-pack. In respect of the culture in Malawi, the girls will be wearing skirts the entire time they are there, and will purchase these when they land in Malawi. They will then be visiting orphanages every day… providing medical care, socks and shoes for these children. The #1 reason why children contract sickness and disease in Africa, is because of their unprotected feet.
Katie still needs $1995.00
http://teenmissions.org/teams/09008-malawi/
Please pray for my children. If you can, please consider supporting them. They need their support by June 20th.
If you can support them, please send a check (or two, they have to receive separate checks for each team) -made out to: Teen Missions Int’l
to: Dylan and Katie Myhre – 1367 Union Mills Road – Troy, VA. 22974
Thanks a ton!
Chad
The government has recently sent this report out to all the local and national law enforcement agencies. In general, the report is highlighting the recent dangers that exist amongst radical right-wing groups here in The United States. If you read this report, you will see that it actually does address valid concerns concerning some small isolated groups of racially hate-driven radicals. These groups don’t make the news very often. They are, however, putting up web sites and stockpiling weapons and ammunition. For this reason, the law enforcement agencies are being told the obvious. “Keep an eye on your local Neo-Nazi Club.” -Wow. Big wake up call for the cops. I can’t imagine that this would be new news to them.
If you are a rational human being, you will agree that groups like this are completely and totally off their rocker. They hate the Jews for running the world and they hate every race, excluding their own, for the simple sake of ignorance.
the government is worried that these groups are going to recruit military trained war veterans. There are a lot of soldiers returning from the Middle East. The report makes a returning soldier out to be a threat because of their training and their potential to be recruited.
The report has also made some of us non military Americans out to be a threat. If you read through the report, you will agree that racially driven hate groups are bad. The report then capitalizes on the ignorance and fear of the average American (I don’t think we’re ignorant, but the government sure does), by tacking on those who:
1. Oppose Abortion
2. Oppose Current Immigration Policies
It’s 9:19 am on Friday, April 10th. In a little while I have to get together some sound equipment to lend out and help someone else make some color copies. After that, I have to drop off my son at PVCC. After that, I’ll be on the Schilling Show with Rob for an hour. (there is some “after that” stuff for the afternoon, part of which includes an hour at SNAP Fitness).
If you had a chance to hear the show today and want to talk about some of the stuff we covered, I welcome your comments.
The podcast will be on this page, probably within the next day or two.
Godspeace!
Chad
I’ve been thinking a lot about communion lately. It’s something we do regularly at church, and since I’m a pastor, it ends up being something that I think about.
We often go to I Corinthians 11:23-26 as the text for communion.
If you go back a few verses, you find Paul correcting the church for their abuses when it comes to the Lord’s Supper. Apparently, whenever they came together, they brought food. It was a pot-luck. They called it a love feast. Something very important was supposed to happen at this love feast.
They were supposed to share.
It all started on Christmas evening, 1995. Actually, it started way before that night. Julie had been making payments to Stringfellow’s in Lynchburg, (there was great deception in the check-book. Lies Lies Lies!!!) I used to stop into Stringfellow’s and look at the guitars. One day, the owner told me about a special guitar that he had made for himself. He brought it out and let me play it. WOW! He was a liar too. It wasn’t his guitar. It was mine. Read more »
Intro:
There are a lot of people bringing about division and strife in the church by their zealous and self righteous attempts to point out heresy. Unfortunately, most o these finger-pointers are either: missing the point, or stressing on minor issues which are fueled with speculation. Yes, there is heresy out there. Yes, there are false teachers. –However, there are also sincere believers who love Jesus who are being nailed improperly. One of the so-called witches that is often being burned in effigy, (especially amongst my Calvary Chapel brothers), is Rob Bell. I’ve read Velvet Elvis twice, and don’t get where these crazy accusations are coming from.
I’m going to use Velvet Elvis as an illustration. If there is one common book that all the so called “discernment” ministers hate, it’s Velvet Elvis. I’m going to use Rob Bell’s confession as a rule by which I judge many of these topics:
“I affirm the historic Christian faith, which includes the virgin birth and the Trinity and the inspiration of the Bible and much more. I’m part of it, and I want to pass it on to the next generation. I believe that God created everything and that Jesus is Lord and that God has plans to restore everything” (p. 27).
If I see something that appears to contradict what Rob is saying about himself, I’m going to have to look at it from a different angle, so it falls in line with his own confession. This is how we look at scripture. It’s a good rule to use when we look at other literature too. It’s also good to draw the meaning out… discern the intent and meaning of the author. In Hermeneutics, we call this “exegesis”. The opposite, obviously, is putting meaning in, (isogesis). One is good. It’s inductive in its reasoning. The other leans toward “deductive” reasoning, which draws a conclusion by accepting voids in the logic.
It’s easy to see why people get the wrong impression of Rob. His method of communication has two factors that are disregarded by most. Read more »
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