The Bible is a book that tells us what God has done (indicative). And because of what God has done, we live differently (imperative). if we flip these we lose the heart of the gospel of grace and and replace it with the gospel of works.
Archive | January, 2009
Wisdom from Tim Keller
27 JanThis is from Tim Keller from Redeemer, from the Innovation3 conference
You have got to go after God for blessing.
Jacob (from Genesis) spent his life trying to get blessing, but he did not get it until he went after God in Genesis 32.
Human blessing will kill you because it never seems to last more than 5 minutes.
You have to take the gospel, and you have to see where you are not believing the gospel, and you must pound it into your heart day after day.
what’s in my brain
26 Jan- vision day was great, and the video and audio are up at thecreeksidechurch.org
- i’m really proud of our guest services team as they made this thing happen yesterday. Go TEAM!
- Team work makes the dream work, (that’s for you matt hodson)
- our ministry passports turned out really great – Kate Thaete is a ninja
- youth group was fun last night
- church and youth group in one day makes for a super long day and monday is hard to get motivated and get going.
- Looking forward to purpose leaders meeting in 5 minutes.
Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
26 JanWe are all buckling down I thought I would share this to help us all.
more about "Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford", posted with vodpod
Synergy
23 Jan“Don’t ever question Synergy, Lemon.” – Jack Donaghey (30Rock)
Kathy and I are selling things around our house. We looked at stuff we haven’t used in awhile and whatever we could sell we posted on Amazon.com.
We had 6 seasons of the King of Queens, which we never watched because the show is actually one, every other hour, every day. So we were good there. This past weekend I posted all 6 seasons of the King of Queens on Amazon.com. This weekend was also the same weekend that Paul Blart: Mall Cop, starring Kevin James premiered in theaters. Synergy! We have sold all but one season, pretty stinking awesome.
Go Synergy, Horay For you!
In response to my last post
22 JanThis might help us overcome our excuses
you can order yours here.
But I’m Not . . .
22 JanThis morning I read Exodus 4, where Moses gave God his excuses for why Moses wasn’t the right guy for the job. You Can read the portion here. I love the God didn’t let Moses get out of his calling.
God doesn’t take our excuses. We can come up with a million of them, but God sees who we are and who he wants us to be, and he is always pushing us to be who he wants us to be.
Moses was fine being a Midainite Shepherd, but the problem was God wanted him to be and Isrealite Prophet, the rescuer of his people.
I constantly have to remind myself that I’m not yet who God has called me to be. Like the apostle Paul, I press on to the goal. But it’s hard work. It’s a lot easier to just be who I am today, and forget about it. But God’s not cool with that.
What has God called you to? What is the scary thing that you need to do? What is the hard decision you need to make? God isn’t going to take your excuses, so stop trying to come up with more.
Jason’s Twitter
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