Category: About Religion and Jesus

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Okay . . .
Praise report time. . . .

First I want to express Praise to God for His answer to many prayers!

Enrollment was up to 112 today from 90 yesterday and 77 on day 1.

There were 10 children who prayed to accept Christ last night!

Go God. ..

There will be continued followup the final two days and there has been a lot accomplished by all the tour guides, assitant tour guides, travel agents, workers, helpers and volunteers. . . I’m not sure I’ve seen this many volunteers at our church for VBS in a while. . .

Please continue to pray for VBS and that each new believer will persevere and learn in their new faith together with their friends and family. . .

In His,
C

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Zechariah 10:1-12

1Pray to GOD for rain–it’s time for the spring rain–to GOD, the rainmaker, Spring thunderstorm maker, maker of grain and barley.

2″Store-bought gods babble gibberish.

Religious experts spout rubbish.
They pontificate hot air.

Their prescriptions are nothing but smoke.
And so the people wander like lost sheep,

poor lost sheep without a shepherd.
3I’m furious with the so-called shepherds.

They’re worse than billy goats, and I’ll treat them like goats.” GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies will step in and take care of his flock, the people of Judah.

He’ll revive their spirits,
make them proud to be on GOD’s side.

4God will use them in his work of rebuilding,
use them as foundations and pillars,

Use them as tools and instruments,
use them to oversee his work.

5They’ll be a workforce to be proud of, working as one,
their heads held high, striding through swamps and mud,

Courageous and vigorous because GOD is with them,
undeterred by the world’s thugs. 6″I’ll put muscle in the people of Judah;

I’ll save the people of Joseph.
I know their pain and will make them good as new.

They’ll get a fresh start, as if nothing had ever happened.
And why? Because I am their very own GOD,

I’ll do what needs to be done for them.
7The people of Ephraim will be famous,

their lives brimming with joy.
Their children will get in on it, too–

oh, let them feel blessed by GOD!
8I’ll whistle and they’ll all come running.

I’ve set them free–oh, how they’ll flourish!
9Even though I scattered them to the far corners of earth,

they’ll remember me in the faraway places.
They’ll keep the story alive in their children,

and they will come back.
10I’ll bring them back from the Egyptian west

and round them up from the Assyrian east.
I’ll bring them back to sweet Gilead,

back to leafy Lebanon.
Every square foot of land

will be marked by homecoming.
11They’ll sail through troubled seas, brush aside brash ocean waves.

Roaring rivers will turn to a trickle.
Gaudy Assyria will be stripped bare,

bully Egypt exposed as a fraud.
12But my people–oh, I’ll make them strong, GOD-strong!

and they’ll live my way.” GOD says so! (The MESSAGE)

Well the colors don’t actually edit well but I’ll try adding a bacground of White ontop of it to see if that helps. . .

Great passage, just got to read it this morning after I got to work. . .

more on VBS later. . .

C

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Currently Listening
The Jesus Record
By Rich Mullins & the Ragamuffin Band
My Deliverer
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I think this is one of my favorite songs of all time. . .

Okay VBS went spectactular last night. . . We had 90 students plus workers. Since we are hitting the second day up from 77 that is great! Things went a little more smoothly than yesterday for the opening as well. . . The kids seem to be enjoying themselves and really getting into the travels, stories, crafts and games.

This is some very good material and I think a step above much I’ve seen in the past. Some of the past years have been excellent so this is a high complement to this year’s Lifeway material. . . .

Farewell for now

“It’s just that for so many people that I know, Christianity’s this matter of … it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won’t smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, ‘That’s not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason–The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'”
Rich Mullens –
(Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Mullins#Quotes)

C

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Currently Listening
Songs
By Rich Mullins
Hold Me Jesus
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Zech 9: written approximately 570-BC-1*
9″Shout and cheer, Daughter Zion!

Raise the roof, Daughter Jerusalem!

Your king is coming!

a good king who makes all things right,

a humble king riding a donkey,

a mere colt of a donkey. (The MESSAGE)

Matthew 21: (recorded approximately 60AD-2*)
1When they neared Jerusalem, having arrived at Bethphage on Mount Olives, Jesus sent two disciples 2with these instructions: “Go over to the village across from you. You’ll find a donkey tethered there, her colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me. 3If anyone asks what you’re doing, say, “The Master needs them!’ He will send them with you.”

4This is the full story of what was sketched earlier by the prophet:

5Tell Zion’s daughter,

“Look, your king’s on his way,

poised and ready, mounted

On a donkey, on a colt,

foal of a pack animal.”

6The disciples went and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. 7They led the donkey and colt out, laid some of their clothes on them, and Jesus mounted. 8Nearly all the people in the crowd threw their garments down on the road, giving him a royal welcome. Others cut branches from the trees and threw them down as a welcome mat. 9Crowds went ahead and crowds followed, all of them calling out, “Hosanna to David’s son!” “Blessed is he who comes in God’s name!” “Hosanna in highest heaven!” (The MESSAGE)

God is very good. . . true to his Word throughout history, accurately predicting exactly what was to come to pass through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. . .

1* http://www.theology.edu/faq01.htm
2* http://www.theology.edu/faq01.htm

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