A New Twist On Independence Day

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Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Today marks one of America’s most popular Holiday’s where we celebrate our Independence and Freedoms that we enjoy here in the United States. It is a day filled with barbecue’s, beaches and fun in the Sun. It is celebrated with a fireworks show at the end of the day. Beaches will be full, beverages will be plentiful and people will be enjoying their Freedom’s. It is filled with indulgence of self and family.

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Jesus’s First Sermon was on Repentance! Why?

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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Repent: For the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17

We serve a God who really really loves us. If you know God at all, you will see the level of love he has poured out on you and I through his Son Jesus.

However there is something that comes from us that we must do before God is going to pour out his Love, grace and mercy into our lives.

Jesus in his very first sermon called to men and women and did not, nor did he ever mince words, sugar coat what must be done. He called for you and I to turn from our sin and repent.

This is a very simple explanation for what is repentance. It means Turn around. Jesus did not overlook sin in our lives, he came to help us deal with it and find a better way.

How?

Turn around, repent…

Having a relationship with God and Jesus requires us to do our part. Faith is going to be darn difficult without repentance.

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This is the day God made

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Friday, July 2nd, 2010

I’m struggling a bit today with being selfless and serving others but have asked God to help me. God is good and faithful! I believe as a christian that God will help me if I seek him and give me strength and courage if I ask..Just because we have God in our lives, it does not mean we will go through life all peachy…but it means that God will help us through everything and will guide and direct us in a better path and way to get through it all. His plans are much better then mine..NO comparison! I need God and thank him for his love, wisdom, and his grace in my life. Without him..I would not exist. If people think because they are christians , they will have it easy, they won’t but God’s ways are so much better then ours! I would not trade God being in my life for anything! I love him! He saved me ( John 3:3) and I have learned so much from trusting in him for my life..even in the difficult times.

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Hold Me Jesus Cause I am Shaking Like a Leaf

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Well, sometimes my life

Just don’t make sense at all

When the mountains look so big

And my faith just seems so small

CHORUS

So hold me Jesus, ’cause I’m shaking like a leaf

You have been King of my glory

Won’t you be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark

It’s so hot inside my soul

I swear there must be blisters on my heart

CHORUS

So hold me Jesus, ’cause I’m shaking like a leaf

You have been King of my glory

Won’t you be my Prince of Peace

Surrender don’t come natural to me

I’d rather fight You for something

I don’t really want

Than to take what You give that I need

And I’ve beat my head against so many walls

Now I’m falling down, I’m falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band

Is playing this hymn

And Your grace rings out so deep

It makes my resistance seem so thin

CHORUS

So hold me Jesus, ’cause I’m shaking like a leaf

You have been King of my glory

Won’t you be my Prince of Peace

(4x)

You have been King of my glory

Won’t You be my Prince of Peace

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How the Bible Ends–Let The Thirsty One Come–Anyone who wants too!

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Revelations 22:12

See I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay everyone according to the deeds he has done. I am the A and the Z, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. Blessed for ever are all who are washing their robes, to have the right to enter in through the gates of the city, and to eat the friut from teh tree of life.

Outside the city are those who have strayed away from God, and the sorcerers and the immoral and the murderers and idolaters, and all who love to lie and do it. I, Jesus, have sent my angle ot you to tell you the churches all these things. I am both David’s root and his descendant. I am the bright Morning Star. The spirit and the bride say, “Come, Let each one who hears them say the same, Come. Let the thirsty one come–anyone who wants to; let him come and drink the water of life without charge. And I solemnly declare to everyone who reads this book; if anyone adds anything to what is written here, God shall add to him hte jplagues described in this book. And if anyone subtracts any part of thes prophecies, God shall take away his share in the tree of life, and in the Holy City just described.

He who has said all these things declares: “Yes, I am coming Soon!”

Amen! Come Lord Jesus!

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

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I love the lines “Come, Let each one who hears them say the same, Come. Let the thirsty one come–anyone who wants to; let him come and drink the water of life without charge.”

There is a hope and a future life that is eternal and knows no sin. It is available to anyone who wants it. It is free to all. It is the way, the truth and the light by which we can truely live.

There is freedom and hope beyond what this crazy daily life that we see going on with our eyes around us.

There is true freedom in Christ awaiting those who want it. And the time is coming soon.

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The Truth of this World Versus The Voice of Truth

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Monday, June 28th, 2010

This music video by casting crowns is one of my favorites. The truth of this world is upside down most of the time.

But the voice of truth tells me a different story. The voice of truth says do not be afraid.

I will CHOOSE to listen and believe the Voice of Truth.

Jesus, your word is the truth I choose. Your voice is the voice I choose to listen to.

Help me hear your voice and understand the truth of your words.

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But the Voice of truth tells me a different story
the Voice of truth says “do not be afraid!”
and the Voice of truth says “this is for My glory”
Out of all the voices calling out to me

I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of truth

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He had everything going for him…Did he trust God?

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Monday, June 28th, 2010

This story makes me really sad. It is one of I am sure many to come out of the Gulf spill where lives are being swept away b the oil. When I see this news pieces and see the quote..”He had everything going for him. He was at the top of his game”

Now I don’t know all the details of this man’s life and I am not going to claim weather or not he had God in his life. But I find it hard to believe that anyone that walks closely with God would take his own life. Despair struck at the core of this life. His life centered around fishing. As it says in the news story. He was one heck of a fisherman.

Some of Jesus’ disciples where fishermen, Jesus beckoned them to become Fishers of Men.

Lord, I pray for not only this man’s family who have suffered a tremendous loss, but for all the families in the Gulf who are suffering. I beg you to turn their hearts from cold, to turn them to you. You are our Rock! You are our salvation!

The ways of this world will always disappoint! But our hope in you is everlasting and we have freedom and peace from all the things of this world when we put our trust in you God.

Help to make the hearts of the people of the Gulf turn to you for the answers. All the answers to life’s issues are in your words.

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Oil Spill ‘Too Much’ for Skipper Who Killed Self

(June 24) — Two weeks after he was hired by BP to help with the oil spill cleanup, William Allen Kruse killed himself.

The 55-year-old charter boat captain shot himself in the head Wednesday morning as he prepared to spend another day skimming oil off the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, clearing the spill that threatened to destroy his livelihood and community.

Kruse left no note, so it’s impossible to know why he took his life. But those who knew him say the veteran fisherman and father of four was almost certainly the latest casualty in the gulf oil crisis, and a symbol of the spill’s exacting human toll.

“He had everything going for him. He was at the top of his game,” Ard said. “He was the kind of guy that made everyone smile, and he was one heck of a fisherman.”