VerseD: Psalm 37:5
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 37:5, ESV
Do not merely pray for God to bless your plans. Seek His will, to walk in His wisdom, and your plans will be His plans and will succeed by His standard.
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This Sunday at Church: Text someone you were glad to see them at Church
Text, call, drop by for a visit, or even another suggestion from “This Sunday at Church” and go out for lunch! No matter what, letting people know you are thankful for them is always good.
Like SlimJim here, being one of the pastors means I am sometimes too busy or flocked by congregants to get everyone. (Sometimes, I am playing with my youth and their siblings. 😎)
And remember, non-chirch staff folk, you can do this!Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Text someone you were glad to see them at Church.
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VerseD: Habakkuk 3:17-18
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:17-18, ESV
Though everything may go wrong, though this world is often horrible, we take joy in knowing our God has saved us for His glory and will one day take us to be with Him forever!
Unrepentant Adultery and the Christian: Can the Two Co-Exist?
Gotta Say It
Have you ever been in a room full of people… maybe even a few… and they were talking about something… something you’re passionate about… and they were either arrogantly boasting like they knew what they were talking about, or they were talking like there were no answers to the subject at hand… or, even worse, they were completely off their rocker with their conclusions?
And, if you’ve ever been in a room like that, have you ever gotten fed up to the point where you couldn’t take it anymore, stood up in your chair, and belted out, “OK, I gotta say something!”?
Well, that’s what I’m doing right now…
I’ve gotta say something.
Good and Bad
Today is Valentine’s Day (happy Valentine’s Day to you). It’s a day that, for me, always comes with a mixed bag of emotions and thoughts. For one, I’m glad we have…
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Love Is Love?
The following, posted in March of last year, holds profound meaning for a day like today.
Especially today.
Not long ago I was riding with my youngest daughter through the Nashville, TN area. We were visiting a couple of colleges that she is thinking of attending, one of them being MTSU.
Since I was the one riding, and since I wasn’t too afraid that Haley would get us killed, I felt more comfortable looking at the sights. One of the sights I saw was a little sticker placed on the back window of a vehicle in the lane next to us.
The first thing I did when I saw it was say out loud what I was thinking: “Love is love? What kind of definition is that?”
And that’s really the point of this little post (rant) of mine: What does it mean when you say “Love Is Love”?
Let’s…
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VerseD: 1 Corinthians 13:13
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13, ESV
We have faith, because God is faithful.
We have hope, because God has promised.
We love, because God is love and has loved us.
Loving is sharing Christ.
VerseD: Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3 ESV
Just as Christ did not rely on His divinity while on earth, but denied Himself to the point of dying to redeem us, we should love others enough to take care of their needs before our own.
VerseD: 1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18, ESV
Some may say “share the Gospel, and if necessary use words.”
That is not the point here. Rather, it is better said “put your money where your mouth is.”
Do not merely teach it: Do it.
(Still) Funny, eh?
I first shared way back on September 27, 2012. I remember that I got the content off of Facebook, but, as we all know, Facebook can hold onto a screen you are tired of seeing but change in a second from what you wanted to keep looking at.
Daniel
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I can not remember where I found this, but I had to share it:
- Funny how a $10.00 bill looks so big when you take it to church, but so small when you take it to the mall.
- Funny how big an hour serving God looks and how small 60 minutes are when spent playing golf, fishing or shopping.
- Funny how long a couple of hours spent at church, but how short they are when watching a movie.
- Funny how we get thrilled when a football game goes into overtime, but we complain when a sermon is longer than the regular time.
- Funny how laborious it is to read a chapter in the Bible and how easy it is to read 200-300 pages of a best-selling novel.
- Funny how we believe what newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
- Funny how people scramble to get a front seat at any game, but scramble to get a back seat at church service.
- Funny how we cannot fit a gospel meeting into our schedule with yearly planner but we can schedule for other events at a moment’s notice.
- Funny how we need 2 or 3 weeks to fit a church event into our schedule, but can adjust it for a social event at the last minute.
- Funny how much difficulty some have learning a simple gospel well enough to tell others, but how simple it is for the same people to understand and explain gossip about someone else.
- Funny how we can’t think of anything to say when we pray, and don’t have any difficulty thinking of things to talk about to a friend.
- Funny how we are so quick to take direction from a total stranger when we are lost, but are hesitant to take God’s direction to be found.
- Funny how people are so consumed with what others think about them rather than what God thinks about them.
- Funny how so many churchgoers sing “Standing on the Promises” but all they do is sit on the premises.
- Funny how people think that they can get more accomplished in a lifetime without God than in an hour with Him.
- Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven, provided they don’t have to believe, or to think, or to say, or to do anything.
Funny how we all need to read this.
VerseD: Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10, ESV
Just as God created a good world and loves His Creation, we were created to love this world and draw it back to Him out of the sin and rebellion we brought in, to be like the Son through His power.
a simple man of God
Do we truly love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths? Maybe I can help with the mind part, at least! This is Daniel M. Klem, apparent poet, reluctant yet passionate Disciple (Peter?), and foolish man attempting to understand theology!
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