Month: April 2015

For the last month or so I have struggled to find the time or the deep thoughts to share, so I have not posted very much.  It was my feeling that to post my thoughts would have become redundant and a quite boring.   Today marks a big change for me and with this change I hope to be back at this keyboard a little more often.
So today, on this Spring Monday I remind you to remember why you are working as you heading off for the work day.  Here are some words straight from the Christ:

^{27 “}Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
²⁸ Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
²⁹ Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John 6:27-29New International Version (NIV)

Alright, It’s Easter Monday again! ( past thoughts here and here)

What a day for celebration and recalibration!  Keep the message going!

33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all.  Acts 4:33

 

I just saw this image on Twitter and had to share.  This is my favorite verse in the Bible.  It symbolizes so much about the freedom we have as believers and followers of the Christ!

Mark 15:38-39 #Easter pic.twitter.com/H9OkOgi0de

— Catalyst (@CatalystLeader) April 3, 2015

How awesome is that!

³⁸ The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Mark 15:38

Oh, Good Friday.  The irony of that label is so rich.  Sometimes it seems  that the goodness really happened on Sunday.  But in some ironic twist the victory over sin and the defeat of the effects of sin started today.  A day full of literal darkness. Here’s a quick timeline to remind you of what happened on this day

What a day.  What a long day.  A day however that despite its darkness did indeed finish the work!

30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:30 (NIV)

Here is is the day before Good Friday.  Can you even imagine that scene that played out on this day in the Garden?  Jesus talking tp his Father, knowing what was to come, and the burden, our burden, he was to bear.  And then he prays for you.  You the believer that comes 2000 years later.  In the Garden on this Thursday before the perfect Passover Lamb is sacrificed, that Lamb bowed his head and thought about you.

²⁰ I am not asking solely for their benefit; this prayer is also for all the believers who will follow them and hear them speak. ²¹ Father, may they all be one as You are in Me and I am in You; may they be in Us, for by this unity the world will believe that You sent Me.
²² All the glory You have given to Me, I pass on to them. May that glory unify them and make them one as We are one, ²³ I in them and You in Me, that they may be refined so that all will know that You sent Me, and You love them in the same way You love Me.  John 17:20-23 The Voice (VOICE)

Remember these words as you head into this weekend, where the worst event and the greatest event happened.  One that truly changed the world.  Let it continue to change you.