Teaching on John 4-5

Here's the powerpoint from Sunday's message. I taught on miracles and the Samaritan woman.

John 4 5 Final

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Prayer request

I am teaching Sunday school this upcoming Sunday for our adult class. I would really love prayer for my message. I will post the powerpoint presentation after Sunday. Thank you very much!

Sharing the Faith.......

Wow.

I have grown up in a Christian environment all of my life.

Today, I had coffee with a friend who is not a Christian. As the conversation turned towards God and religion, he shared frankly his views with me, which I appreciated.

What do you say to a friend who has no room for God in their life? God is simply a tool that helps certain people in their lives and he really did not need God in his life right now. He was doing OK.

As for sin, well, he tries to learn from his mistakes and then he moves on.

How would you have responded?

Trusting God!

I am working on a lesson for our adult Sunday school class about John 4-6. In my preparations today on God's goodness and on our ability to trust in Him, I came across these verses:

"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You." Isaiah 26:3

Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. Isaiah 26:4

“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8

I have found so many verses on trust! It is amazing. The Bible has so much to say on trust yet I still walk around everyday not trusting Him. Working on this message has been a great reminder: I can TRUST God EVERYDAY in EVERYTHING.

Memory Verse

I am trying to do Beth Moore's Memory Verse challenge. Check out these two links:

http://livingproofministries.blogspot.com/2009/03/siesta-scripture-memory-team-verse-6.html

http://livingproofministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/siesta-scripture-memory-team-verse-11.html

So my current verse is a part of Psalms 138:8

"The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. Your love, Oh Lord, endures forever."

Bad blogger, bad blogger........

That would be me!

Life has been quite insane for the past six to eight months.

I will try to post more in the future!

Thankful!

It has been a busy Thanksgiving! I am thankful to have gotten off work early on Wednesday and came home and baked banana oatmeal cookies, two strawberry pies, and chocolate peanut butter Rice Krispies! (Doesn't that sound like Thanksgiving?!)

Then, we ate some great chicken fajitas with a friend at Uncle Julio's and then, we got to do something really cool. My friend is a pilot and he took us to a flight simulation place where pilots train on business jets. Flying a jet is much harder than it looks. And the simulation was really neat. Technology today is amazing. We crashed into an aircraft carrier and it felt so real that I had to close my eyes. It was a great way to kick off Thanksgiving!

On Thursday morning, we drove to Ben's parents and stuffed ourselves with all sorts of goodness. Then, we watched two football games. That is a lot of football!!!

Then, on Friday, we drove to my parents. We did a little Christmas shopping and then ate more good food. After taking a nap, we went to visit my Grandmother and then went fishing! (I got some running in both days.)

And now, we are back home and about to head to the Advent service at our church. This weekend, I will write up our Christmas newsletter and do some more shopping.

I am thankful for family, friends, and food! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!