Hey, this is NOT the way to help your kids. Before we can help our kids, we need to allow God to help us. You may not understand your kids, but do you understand you? The best thing we can offer others is not a ‘fix-up’ at church, but our own open, honest and teachable…
resisting or assisting Him
SCRIPTURE: Zechariah 12-13 OBSERVATION: These messages speak about God’s plan to restore His people to an important place in the world (12:1-9), the grief His people experience for rejecting (piercing) God, an anticipation of the crucifixion (12:10-14), God’s promise to remove the impurity of false teachers and prophets who were misleading His people (13:1-6) and the…
please leave your comments
Hey everyone, just a reminder… Please leave your comments!!! Say ‘hi’, ask a question (try to stump me, its not hard), share a story, sing a song, ask for prayer, give me a good idea, share a God story, start a discussion… whatever. The fun of a blog is people sharing anything, anytime. HOW? Just…
what I need, not what I want
SCRIPTURE: Zechariah 11 OBSERVATION: This is a scary message. It basically says that the people prefer to follow worthless leaders and teachers (shepherds). In the vision Zechariah tries to help the flock by getting rid of the bad shepherds and caring for the sheep, especially the weak. But they rejected and detested him (symbolic of all…
let the church help
Unfortunately… … more true than they realize!
bible readings (september)
Here is the list of bible readings for September 2008. We are finishing the 3 year cycle and looking at the last books of the old and new testament. Learn more about the SOAP method of bible reading here. SEPTEMBER 1. 2 John 1/ 3 John 1 2. Jude 1 3. Malachi 1 4. Malachi 2 5. Malachi 3-4 6. Psalms 147 7. Psalms 148
Jesus is my hope
SCRIPTURE: Zechariah 10 OBSERVATION: The leaders and teachers were guilty of misleading the people, giving them false direction and false comfort. This is why the whole nation was in exile. But God will restore His special community, and once again use them to shine for the world to see. He will do this Himself, by coming…
like a jewel in His crown
SCRIPTURE: Zechariah 9 OBSERVATION: For many years the nation of Israel was battered and beaten, exiled and defeated by the surrounding nations. But things are about to change. Their enemies will be defeated by the Lord, and He will come in person (i.e. the messiah) and proclaim peace and restore order. The weak will be strengthened,…
how the Lord convicted me
Last Sunday I was sharing about a situation at a Tim Horton’s, where the new girl was not able to do the outside clean up duty because of an injury, and the manager asked for a volunteer from the other employees. No one else volunteered. Finally the manager picked one, and that one was not…
with you always
In trying to discover what it means to follow Jesus, I discovered the artwork of Larry Van Pelt. His purpose is to help people learn what it means that Jesus is with us always. No matter what we do, Jesus is with us. The only question is, are we with Jesus in whatever we do?