Random thoughts on this Wednesday

I have not posted random thoughts in a while but today has been an interesting day. It started with a great prayer meeting at the church, the prayer was Mark 11: 20-25. "Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. ²³ Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. ²⁴ So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." We have been meeting on Wednesday mornings, learning more about prayer as we seek a spiritual revival of the church. There is a shift of the wind but it is too early to tell where it lead us. While there this morning Bonnie was dealing with the news that her brother (57) has pancreatic cancer and it has gotten into his liver. She has weathered great adversity in the last six to seven years and so prayers are needed her way and especially for her brother and his family as they fight a courageous battle. Then a friend asked how to say goodbye to a member of their family and so I asked God  to be gracious as I responded to that request. Finally, great news, my son the Baptist minister has been called to a new church. I think it will be a great adventure for him and I believe God will use him to share the Gospel. I just wish he and I could set aside our challenges and be father and son again. So my prayers on this day are that God's will be done in all things, but with radical prayer I pray for the right answers and for the right kind of healing(s). 

Week of 4/21/13

I will not be posting a sermon this week. My friend Don Foster is preaching. I will pose two questions to see who might be reading and open them to comment and discussion.
1) What does the recent events in Boston tell us about evil in the world?
2) In light of Jesus comment to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, how does an affirmative Same-Sex Marriage ruling from the Supreme Court change the way we behave as Christians in America?

Anonymous Comments

From time to time I get anonymous comments concerning postings or sermons. Often these comments are personal in nature, not that that will prevent me from replying to them. Since I don't have the ability to know what the intent of the question is or in some cases, like the post that was sent in on 3/11/13, not sure if all the post came through, please include your name. The most interesting thing about the life as a minister is that your life is always on center stage and people will ask you things that they would not likely ask someone else. My life has been full of ups and downs, mistakes and successes. Some of those mistakes, like past marriages  have been failures at living the kind of life that God calls us to live. Thankfully, God forgives repentive hearts.

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