Never Static, Always Challenging

You're not stuck where you started.....you're stuck where you STOP! - Anon

Job's life was turned upside down and inside out, but his faith remained on course and intact. Hmm!

Picture this: a motor boat jetting across the lake with a water skier attached having the time of his life. Or a saddled horse running wild dragging behind it's rider who somehow got caught up in the reins and fell off. Which would you rather be doing? In truth, when you think about it this is a picture of our faith life. Sometimes it's joyful and fun, other times it's painful and exacting. Faith is never static and it's always challenging. It is either growing stronger or slowly dying day by day. The issues or circumstances of life only serve as the tests that bring about the result. So, how're you doing?

Until Monday...

Pastor Botts

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess.....and let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." - Hebrews 10:23-24

P.S. - hopefully you can join us tomorrow morning at 9:30am for Prayer Breakfast.

Let's do this Together

If God loves best in community, who are we to set ourselves up as spiritual loners. – J.M. Pope

When Jesus walked the earth even He surrounded himself with 11 ‘faithful’ friends, and then He built for them the church. Hmm!

Nostalgia – we all seem to suffer from it in some form, particularly when it comes to the good-guy or hero, or savior. We buy into the solo act or Lone Ranger attitude. Just look around, we live in a society that teaches and even praises individual independence and freedoms, but that is not by God’s design. From the very beginning God said, “it is not good that man should be alone,” meaning we were created for relationship. Church attendance and fellowship with the brethren may not be important to some, but to God’s people it is a command. I pray you agree.

Until Monday…..

Pastor Botts

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” – Hebrews 10:23-25.

Faith in the Faithful One

God can handle it even when we don’t see how! – Richard Murray

The Red Sea parting was a physical impossibility in the eyes of the Israelites and Egyptians – but God works outside physical limitations. Hmm!

If we take a minute to think about it, the sun rose this morning like clockwork and we had nothing to do with it. And it will eventually pass through the day and nightfall will come and we can’t prevent it. God has been doing this and many other miraculous things since the beginning of time. And not only is He involved in nature, but He wants to be involved in every detail of our lives as well. We often say “I know who holds tomorrow/future” referring to God, but the proof of our faith is in our ‘casting all of our cares on Him.” God has been in the ‘delivery’ business since He put man on the earth, so though we may not see how our situation can be worked out, it can; we need to just trust Him a bit longer.

Until tomorrow…..

Pastor Botts

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” – Hebrews 10:23