Scripture: Psalm 25:4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Thought for the Day: Back in 2008, Brian McLaren wrote the book, A New Kind of Christian. In the book he offers us some wonderfully challenging words that appear to fit in our discussion around Jesus Apprentice. He writes, For Christ, his “called ones” (which is what the Greek term for “church” really
Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. Thought for the Day: Yesterday, we started the Jesus Apprentice classes. This Sunday, I will begin preaching on the theme of Jesus Apprentice: Consistency in word and deed. This is absolutely necessary for anyone seeking to be in the Jesus
From: An Anonymous Church Member Scripture: 1st Corinthians 12:27 All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it. Thought for the Day: One of my favorite songs that we sing in the contemporary worship service is “If We are the Body”. The chorus goes like this: But if we are the body Why aren’t His arms reaching? Why aren’t His hands
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. Thought for the Day: The following was included in Sunday’s bulletin, but there was a request for a reprint. It is Jarod’s Story (one of our new church members at Cypress Creek Christian Church) “I crawled out from the mangled wreckage reaching for the light and feeling more alive than I’d ever felt
Scripture: Psalm 77:5-6 I consider the days of old, and remember the years of long ago. I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit… Thought for the Day: Tomorrow is an important day for every couch-potato. It is the 64th anniversary of the first live nationwide telecast of a football game. As a college football fanatic, I feel as if this should
Scripture: Revelation 6:12-13 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and there came a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. Thought for the Day: I am thankful for science! You probably already know that tonight we
Scripture: Philippians 1:9-11 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God. Thought for the Day: The French writer, Antoine
Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 1:6-7 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for in spite of persecution you received the word with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. Thought for the Day: Tomorrow is a great day in history. It was on this day 34 years ago that Nolan Ryan pitched
Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 5:9-13 For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labor among you, and
Scripture: Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Thought for the Day: I have been rereading a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was an amazing pastor in the Congregationalist tradition (today, that would be the United