Random Thoughts for May 28, 2013

• Why do people think that they can live like hell Monday through Saturday and show up for a worship service on Sunday and it's all good?  God will not be mocked!  Galatians 6
• If you are living like there is no hell, you better be right!
• I can't believe that I get the privilege of leading people to Christ in spite of my short comings. Grace is a wonderful thing, so I try very hard not to abuse it.
• God is up to something on the Hill at Shelby Christian.  I pray that I am always aware of His leading and don't miss a single opportunity.
• The Story is going to be incredible.  I pray that we are all able to grow in our story as it fits into His Story!
• This week is going to be special as we finish our two-part parenting sermon.  I wish I knew some of this stuff before I became a parent ... or grandparent!

A Day with Granddaughters

There isn't a better word to hear than Poppy. I love spending time with my granddaughters. They are innocent and free.  I wish they never had to grow up. Adults can really mess things up.  Kids tell you what they are thinking, until they get old enough to understand how to manipulate. I wish they never learned that, but they do. They see it in adults and then they model it and eventually pass it on to people that they influence later in life.  Oh that they could stay completely innocent. Since I know that they are already growing up really fast I'll just try to enjoy simple moments.  

I'll be finishing up the sermon You Can Do This ... But Not Alone on June 2.

FROM DREAMING TO DOING

If you could do anything you wanted to do what would that be?  Do you ever just stop and dream anymore?  What would a future that you would create for yourself or someone you love or someone you don't even know look like?

 

It seems that for the majority of the people I know that they have stopped dreaming completely.  They are so caught up in the day to day monotony of life, that they have either forgotten how to dream or they have just given up on anything ever being different than it currently is for their life. I have to admit that many days, no most days, I fall into that group.

 

Either we have tried something spectacular before that didn't work or we just had the legs cut out from under us people who told us we were just being silly, we just stopped dreaming.  I find myself today wondering about a different future, and what it would take to see it fulfilled and come to be.

 

I wonder what it would be like if every child that was born got to live with their mommy and daddy until they were out of high school and then they all got to go to college.

I wonder what it would be like if there weren't any homeless people in my community, not because they didn't exist but because we took care of them.

I wonder what life would be like if every family was virtually debt free, except possibly for a mortgage.
I wonder what it would be like if everyone that I know, knew Jesus as a loving savior.

I wonder what it would be like if everyone who goes to church acted like they knew Jesus as a loving savior.

I wonder what it would be like if we never said that will never work. 

I wonder what it would be like if we started dreaming ... and then started doing ... hmmmmmm