Sunday Morning!

Running the sound again. Since we are essentially a new church, we have portable everything. This is the soundboard that I run. It is also the amp (500 watts per channel babycakes). This has been a challenge from the standpoint of dealing with and learning a new sound system. Although we have been using it for about 2 months and it isn't bad to run all things considered.

Remmy

Remmy was visiting us today. She was trying to type on my computer while Brandon and Ashley install a new car seat for her. She has outgrown her first one.

I love my family!

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I don't think I say that enough. I have been feeling that God has been illustrating my relationship with Him through my family. I hope that they know that no matter what they do or say, I will always love them…always.

Another test

Sending a picture with my phone and typing the message on my phone. Like my old Fennvile Blackhawk spirit cup.

Trying out a new service for my stuff

I’m looking at using Posterous for posting things here and then sending it to all of my social media sites. I can send stuff by email and have it show up here or on any of my sites, like Ministry and Meteorology? Blog. So let’s see whay happens when I push publish.

What Fear Could Really Be Jesus?

I was listening to Shane Hipps, of MHBC, He did a second sermon on fear. It was about how God may be confronting us with something that we have been told to watch out for, only to find out that it is Jesus coming to set us free.
The Bible story was Jesus walking on water(John 6:16-21). At night, on the water, the disciples see Jesus walking on the water. People have always told them that it would have to be a ghost. However, it is Jesus, the person to set them free.
So what am I fearing that is really Jesus? What is God trying to teach me that challenges what I have been taught in religion to fear, but is really Jesus? If holding on to fear leads to hate, then what am I holding onto that God is trying to get me to lay down?

Many times we are wary of people who might challenge our faith, as if they are some devious person that is teaching us something heretical. However, what if our fear of change and being challenged is keeping us from showing the love that we are to give. The fear instead breeds hate. Us vs. them.

I wonder how much we challenge love because it doesn’t fit our framework of religion and the fear of the thing, when the thing is Jesus coming to set us free from the thing.

Here’s a good case in point. The story of the church that was picketing the exotic dance club. The dancers got fed up and picketed the church. The resolution was when a group of women stepped in loved on the girls and the church. The church then talked with the dancers and began to speak into the girls’ lives. In a way, I think that the church feared the dance club, until a group of women from outside the church showed them that it was Jesus trying to free them from the thing. How? The congregation saw the dance club and the girls there as a thing and us vs. them. It built up fear and hate between the two groups. but once they met and showed love to the girls they realized whether they agreed or not, that the girls were children of God. Love won out.  Read the post here at xxxchurch.com

Jesus was coming to set the church free from being judgmental to a groups of people and the fear made them question whether it was Jesus or a ghost. When they recognized Jesus, they got out of the boat.

So what do you fear? Could it be Jesus coming to set you free?