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“What do you think? If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray?”
Matthew 18:12, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. We can have these knowing He seeks us, He saves us, and He protects us.
Then he said, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
Mark 4:9, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. Listening to and reading the words of Christ will reveal His will by His Holy Spirit to find the joy and peace that comes from understanding Him better.
“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Matthew 5:14, CSB
God should be our source of hope, joy, and peace. When Christ is our light, we can shine the light of His joy and peace through the hope of the gospel and our loving works.
For I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.”
Isaiah 41:13, CSB
God calls us to rest, and one of those ways is to rest from anxiety and fear. Trust God, and honor His call by resting in Him.
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11, CSB
We are called to rest, and we follow the example of our Creator. Do we truly believe He is worthy of all honor and glory? Let us glorify Him by obeying Him and even resting, finding ultimate rest for our souls through Christ.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
Exodus 20:8, CSB
God calls us to rest, and He gave us the example. We need to remember to honor God by respecting the time we have and resting regularly.
On this day 25 years ago, at 6:46 PM CST, I bent my knee to Jesus as Lord and Savior. (If you do a search on this site for “birthday”, you will see the various explanations.)
I like to call it my Re-Birthday, as we call faith in Christ being born again. This comes from John 3 and 1 Peter 1. I encourage everyone to remember their own re-birthday (and if you aren’t sure/can’t remember, just claim your birthday.)
I also like to bake some sort of cake and then serve it to others as a way to teach self-sacrifice and becoming a servant to all as our shared salvation is celebrated.
This year, I get to start Christian Worldview and Intro to Philosophy courses (as one of the instructors) with 245 students who were all born after this momentous day in my life. Tomorrow I am with fellow seminarians who also were mostly born after this date! (2 are about my age and from Africa. We actually have about 30 students from Malawi [majority from here], Kenya [Gama is the one who invited me to his home and is about my age], Ghana [the other person about my age], and Sierra Leone.)
It is a little weird to think that I have been a Christian so long, especially having come to Christ as a teenager and now working with teens (and 20-somethings) as a youth pastor and college instructor.
God is so good.
Also, it is my mother-in-law’s birthday, so join me in wishing her a happy and blessed day! If not for her, I would not have my wife!
Also also, it is my friend Fletcher’s birthday. We met in seminary. He’s a TheoBro of the hughest order.
God bless you, and remember that Jesus Christ is the reason we live and move and breathe and have meaning and being!
Be excellent and party on!
I wish we had more time to meet with our deacons, but everyone is so busy. We pastors do try, though. I see one at least every month. These folks are so wonderful and appreciated. Let us encourage the church by honoring her servants.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church: Schedule to have lunch to encourage one of the deacons in your church.
This Sunday at Church: Schedule to have lunch to encourage one of the deacons in your church
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Matthew 2:10-11, ESV
God showed His love through Jesus, our God made flesh, worshipped by commoners and kings alike. Let us love the One who loved us enough to come as a baby to grow up to take on our punishment.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:4-5, ESV
God has shown His love through Jesus, coming at just the right time as a human so that He could redeem us through His life, death, and resurrection. He has adopted us through Christ and sealed us with His Spirit.
a simple man of God 