worship

i'm growing up

instead of ranting about what i don't like

i am emphasizing what i do like

this song for instance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6J5TzSE_18&feature=fvw

enjoy

Barth Romans 8:17

"Participation in suffering means to suffer with Christ, to encounter God, as Jeremiah and Job encountered Him; to see Him in the tempest, to apprehend Him as Light in the darkness, to love Him when we are aware only of the roughness of His hand."

silence and waiting

"Silence is death to the senses...

Waiting is a form of dying,

Failure, humiliation and what men might think, will keep us fearful.

We are afraid to take risks lest we fail. Failure is death, humiliation

is death, but in the kingdom of God, it is the way of life."

Art Katz "True Fellowship"

sweet or bitter

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; or even if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him. oswald chambers

love your enemies

the true church is a "living indictment" of the self[centered world, and yet the "high call" of the true church is to love their enemies.

"while we were yet sinners" is the example of love that we are given.

we respond in love to hatred, and for that "the enemy"
has no answer, God sets the stage for us to respond in love.

Let us be authentic and "in HIM" and we will love, NO MATTER WHAT!

loosely from art katz

the Christ Life

Is there any aspect of the life to which we are called in which we are sufficient in ourselves?

No, we need to die to self and trust the life of Christ in us. Death and resurrection. Every issue before the believer is a choice between human sufficiency and the life of Christ. Art Katz

http://media.sermonindex.net/14/SID14430.mp3

Do we get the ways of God? "And it was evening and it was morning of the first day." Gen 1:5

Evening first, darkness first, rest first, then day, then light, then work. So obvious, so simple, so overlooked.

We think our day starts with morning and it is an indicator of how "wrong" we are at our very depth.

wisdom from oswald

"Do you believe this?" Are you facing an area of doubt in your life? Have you come, like Martha, to a crossroads of overwhelming circumstances where your theology is about to become a very personal belief? This happens only when a personal problem brings the awareness of our personal need.

Oswald Chambers Nov. 6th

God we thank you for the times when you "ruin our image" and break us down, and bring/allow/reveal a personal problem that causes us to cry out to you. WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN TO RECEIVE THE REWARD OF HIS SUFFERING!! the moravians