Birth of Blog
This is my initial blog. For you who live outside of my church world, a little introduction is in order. I am a native South Carolinian who has been in Kansas for sixteen years. Connie and I met at Columbia Bible College and have been married for 36 years. We have two sons who are grown and married and two grandchildren. Alas, both sons and families are out-of-state--one in SC and one in FL(great winter vacation site). I love the outdoors—fishing and hunting and find God in nature in a significant way that is hard to verbalize. I am a South Carolina Gamecock (“wait till next year” is our team cheer in football) but national champs in baseball.
Our Bible reading plan for 2011 is not the way you will find it in your Bible. This is intentional.
· The four gospels and Acts---the narrative portions are spaced out through the year so we can revisit the life of Christ and early church life.
· The epistles are listed in chronological order as best I can ascertain.
· Psalms and Proverbs, books of prayer and wisdom respectively, are interspersed to bring variety to your reading and your journey.
I will be preaching from Psalm 1 this week. It could be our proof text for our theme: “Plant—Grow—Multiply” See verse 3. Healthy Christians are growing Christians and the word of God is consistently vital to the process. Andy Stanley talks about becoming familiar with the providential will of God and submitting to the moral will of God (which we find in scripture) as key contributors to understanding the personal will of God and, in reality, to growing in our very knowledge of Him.
Dear Lord, I want to be that tree fed by your streams of water; I want to be that fruit bearing tree; I don’t want to wither; and whatever it looks like in your eyes –I want to prosper for you. Thank you for your promise—“The Lord watches over the way of the righteous,”
Quote for today:
Winston Churchill - “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
