Life Is Hard! A couple went to attend the wedding of a family member. Relatives had flown in from across the United States, but somewhere between the rehearsal dinner on Friday and the wedding on Saturday the groom and the bride-to-be called the whole thing off. Another man, a father, in great anguish shared how his daughter was planning on marrying a young man that he and his wife vehemently disapproved of and how there was nothing they could do to stop her. Finally, a young woman, a mother of twins and pregnant with a third, went to run some errands only to return home to find that her husband had hanged himself.
Life Is Hard! But Jesus knows that because in Matthew it says that "Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."
Dear God give me that kind of compassion!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
HE STILL CHANGES LIVES
Man I just got blown away!!! One of my college buddies wanted to befriend me on Facebook. Now I am not going to give you any of the gory details about my friend, I will call him Ed (fictitious name), but just let it be said that Ed is the last person who I ever dreamed would become a radical Jesus follower. Ed was one of the smartest guys in our class, but he lived on the wild side. He was a party animal, no he was more than that. Ed was a party lizard! Ed and I were roommates for a semester and his exploits were known far and wide. But over the years as Ed journeyed through life God got a hold of Ed's life and spiritually changed him, and Ed became a radical Jesus follower. In fact Ed just finished serving a multi-year term as an Elder in his church. And as Ed puts it "To get to that point, you KNOW it wasn't my own strength!" And the coolest thing is that if God can change Ed he can change you too!
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