Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Francis Chan: Are Your Beliefs Biblical? (Crazy Love Chapter 5)
The honest search for truth. Jesus is the Truth so we must really find him and not another person's version of it. This guys challenges all of us in a good way.
Kevin
Kevin
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Excuse Me, Are You Jesus?
As you read this think about what you would do!
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.
The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
‘The most compelling conversion story I’ve ever read’
Muscle and a Shovel, a powerful new book by Michael Shank, a faithful member and part-time gospel preacher in Metropolis, Ill.
For a review of the book, go to
http://brotherhoodnews.com/2012/06/28/the-most-compelling-conversion-story-ive-ever-read/
For a review of the book, go to
http://brotherhoodnews.com/2012/06/28/the-most-compelling-conversion-story-ive-ever-read/
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Process of Salvation
Some preachers have accused us of ripping verses out of context and stringing them together like pearls to come up with the 5 steps to salvation. Please read Acts 2:22-38 and you will see
(1) Peter's command for them to hear.
(2) They were pricked to the heart, which proves they believed.
(3) They verbally showed they believed [confessed] by asking "what shall we do?"
(4) they were told to repent.
(5) they were told to be baptized.
There you have the whole plan of salvation in one passage, left completely in context. The result of following these things is that they were added to the church and saved (2:41-47).
(1) Peter's command for them to hear.
(2) They were pricked to the heart, which proves they believed.
(3) They verbally showed they believed [confessed] by asking "what shall we do?"
(4) they were told to repent.
(5) they were told to be baptized.
There you have the whole plan of salvation in one passage, left completely in context. The result of following these things is that they were added to the church and saved (2:41-47).
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