I love Easter. It is always such a ... romantic! time with Jesus. On Friday, I went to LPC to watch the Passion of the Christ. This year, they set up an interactive prayer room called "The Way of the Cross" - POWERFUL. It was the perfect mournful/blessed date night with Jesus.
I watch the Passion movie every year (well since they've been showing it) at LPC and each year I hear something new. Two things I heard this year were:
"If you will not hear the truth, people will not speak it to you." - Pontius Pilate's wife. Whew!
"See, I am making all things new." - Jesus, to His mama, on His way to Golgotha. Beautiful.
Ok, I hope all that made sense. I'm trying to multi-task by watching tv and blogging at the same time. My whole point to this blog was the following random trivia I learned today:
Did you know that Santa Claus was at the Council of Nicea (the group God chose to physically put His Word together into the Bible)? In fact, Saint Nicholas was one of the most outspoken people there about the Trinity doctrine. Who knew!? (Random fact info thanks to the Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraff in his book, "The Bible Answer Book")
Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Arise
Jesus is pretty stinking amazing. As if you didn't know. :)
My little Bhutanese friends are PRECIOUS. This past Tuesday, we talked about Jesus praying in the garden and we made little prayer slips about what we want to tell God. One little girl wrote, "I love you Jesus and you love me." My soul sings. Please pray for us this Tuesday as we are presenting the rest of the story about how He is our Saviour - their Saviour! I can't wait!!
Life has been pretty insane the past few months. I almost feel like I've been in the ocean, without a boat, during a white squall. Pretty intense. I've now been washed ashore and I hear, "Arise." I'm seeing what all God has done in my midst and it's pretty beautiful. Nehemiah's story has been the echo throughout all of this. We've been studying it in Sunday School and then my favorite blog has been writing about it. There are bricks to be laid and walls to be built. We can't just talk about the bricks and the walls, we have to go out there and BUILD. We must live out what He gives us. What exactly that means for me is difficult to discern, but what I'm finally getting is that, just as Nehemiah did, I can only listen to HIS voice. We can't just talk about talking to God and we can't ask each other what God wants and expect to receive a coherent answer. Third parties always get the information muddled in some way - in all circumstances but especially when it comes to His voice. We simply need to go to Him directly - seek Him and He will answer.
My little Bhutanese friends are PRECIOUS. This past Tuesday, we talked about Jesus praying in the garden and we made little prayer slips about what we want to tell God. One little girl wrote, "I love you Jesus and you love me." My soul sings. Please pray for us this Tuesday as we are presenting the rest of the story about how He is our Saviour - their Saviour! I can't wait!!
Life has been pretty insane the past few months. I almost feel like I've been in the ocean, without a boat, during a white squall. Pretty intense. I've now been washed ashore and I hear, "Arise." I'm seeing what all God has done in my midst and it's pretty beautiful. Nehemiah's story has been the echo throughout all of this. We've been studying it in Sunday School and then my favorite blog has been writing about it. There are bricks to be laid and walls to be built. We can't just talk about the bricks and the walls, we have to go out there and BUILD. We must live out what He gives us. What exactly that means for me is difficult to discern, but what I'm finally getting is that, just as Nehemiah did, I can only listen to HIS voice. We can't just talk about talking to God and we can't ask each other what God wants and expect to receive a coherent answer. Third parties always get the information muddled in some way - in all circumstances but especially when it comes to His voice. We simply need to go to Him directly - seek Him and He will answer.
Memory Verse #7
My Lover spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with Me."
Song of Solomon 2:10
Oh man. My soul is singing. More on this verse later!!! :)
Song of Solomon 2:10
Oh man. My soul is singing. More on this verse later!!! :)
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