From the Pastor's Desk

January 4, 2009

IN THE NEW YEAR (2009) ARE WILLING

To close your book of complaints and to open the book of praise?
To ignore what life owes you and to think about what you owe life?
To stop looking for friendship and start being friendly?
To be content with such things as you have and to stop whining for the things you have not?
To enjoy the simple blessings of life and to cease striving for the artificial pleasures of the day?
To forget what have accomplished and to meditate on what others have done for you?
To cease looking for someone to help you and to devote yourself to helping others?
To consecrate your life to the service of an imperfect church and to remember that Christ chose 12 imperfect followers to be His disciples?

January 11, 2009

"Indispensable Christian"

"He is impossible to get along with because
he think he's impossible to get alone without,"
was said of a Sunday School Worker.
No wonder the result was a dismal failure
for he would be indispensable.
The worst idea a Christian can have is that
he is absolutely necessary to the work in which
he is engaged, that his absence would stop
the whole undertaking.

January 18, 2009

Prayer of Concern for Others

Father, help me to talk like a Christian:
to speak in such a way that I build up another person�s confidence in himself, instead of tearing down his reputation.
Father, help me to drive like a Christian:
to be watchful and careful lest I cause harm to someone else on the highways.
Father, help me to give like a Christian:
without thought of return, without anyone knowing what I do, and with Your approval as sufficient reward.
Father, help me to dress like a Christian:
by not attracting attention to myself for being too fashionable or too casual: and help me to show by my appearance that I want people to know me for what I am inside myself.
Father, help me to sleep like a Christian:
at peace with myself because sin is forgiven: and at peace with others because I do not allow my anger to last through a day.
Father, help me to eat like a Christian:
to eat healthily, to eat moderately, to eat gratefully, giving thanks to You who provide my food, and for the one who prepares my food.
Father, keep me from being so pious
that I keep You out of the practical areas of life. Be with me when I am alone, and when I shed my inhibitions, lest in those moments I cancel out all that I seem to be when I�m on my best behavior.
Father, I ask this because I follow a Master who was never guilty
of the slightest wrong-doing, and who always showed his love in the small details of living. Amen.

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