Today I got to walk the farthest end of the new bike trail in Winchendon. Here are some photos.
My walking partner.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Color Your World Neon Carrot
Our next color is NEON CARROT. Click the underlined link for examples from around the world.
Here is the shade:
It’s not quite as bright as I thought it might be. I might of called this Old Pumpkin. I do suppose though that Neon Carrot is a better sell.
Neon Carrot Sunrise
Even the tree are a little carrotish. All right maybe more broccoli. I wonder what would neon broccoli look like? 🙂
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Color Your World:Navy Blue
I have always said one of my favorite colors was NAVY BLUE. That is the color Jennifer has challenged us with this morning (or two days ago as it were since I am still catching up). You can find a whole wide world of Navy Blue at her site by clicking the underlined link.
Here is what Navy Blue looks like
And here are my renderings of the shade.
Almost not quite but a very pretty blue
I think I’ll call this one “A Deepening Blue”
Those clouds are definitely Navy issue.
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You’re Part Of the Conspiracy Pt. 6
Photo by Deb Maciorowski
This is the final installment of our series transcript from last Sunday’s sermon at Cornerstone. If you have missed any of the previous installments they can be found HERE.
Here is our conclusion to the discussion.
The final step towards becoming the church God desires for this time belongs to a group of people called the elders. This is once again from the word I received a week ago.
Elders you are called to mentor a generation in a Pentecost they have never seen, known or experienced. I summon you to bear witness of the times you recall that a new generation may know the way.
You may be old. You may be tired. But if you have seen the past moves of Pentecost in the healing revivals of the 50’s, the Charismatic renewal of the 70’s or the worship revivals of the 80’s 90’s and early millenium, then you must dig back and speak to the power of miracle that you have witnessed because there are little children and young men and women in this church who have never witnessed the power of a move of God.When it comes they won’t understand or know how to tell the real from the fake, the charlatans from legitimate or the wild fire from the Holy fire. You, elders, are being called to speak for them and to them unafraid and undeterred, helping the church to chew the meat of revival and spit out the bones without complaining or creating dissension or fostering unbelief.
Everyone of us who consider ourselves part of the church have a step or a part to play in the revival to come. What is your step?
1.Do you need to be born again? Have you asked Jesus to be your Savior and have you made Him God of your life? Jesus won’t be just a Savior. If He is to save you then He has to be boss of your life too. Have you asked Him to be both? If not then you are not born again yet. If you need to be born again by accepting Jesus as Lord and savior. Hero and boss then pray the prayer found HERE from your heart
2. Do you need to ask God’s help to clean up your act Christian? Are there things you need Jesus to help you fix in your life so that you don’t get burned when the fire of revival comes into the church?
3. Do you need power from on high to help you perform the work God wants you to do? Then Jesus says you need the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Don’t worry about what all that means right now just acknowledge that whatever the baptism in the Holy Spirit is you need it because Jesus says you do.
4.Are you someone who has been in Pentecost for a long time? Have you seen the Holy Spirit move in revival before? Then acknowledge your role in helping those who haven’t seen.
I would love to hear more about the step you are on in the conspiracy!
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Shoutin’ Saturdays 3-5-16
Things are getting exciting up in here! I am so ready for another service of refreshing in Christ’s presence as I write this! May God fill you with enough excitement to shout for His glory and to break every heavy yoke that holds you. Share your shout out to God in the comments section below after you have listened to this.
Find out more about Planetshakers HERE
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Gutters For Jesus Pt. 3
Lisa Johnson is not only a very talented artist she is the third member of our Gutters for Jesus team helping to raise funds for Special Touch REACH New England. This vital ministry to the disabled meets monthly to encourage community and to proclaim the gospel to one of the most underserved groups in the world.
One of our goals is to help churches become more aware of how they can serve the disabled in their own community. Recently two of our core group met with a local children’s ministry to do a training on how to work with children on the autism spectrum.
Folks at Special Touch Camp
The happy angel
Setting up registration
To help us in reaching our fundraising goals at Special Touch REACH New England go HERE.
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You’re Part Of the Conspiracy Pt. 5
Photo by Deb. Maciorowski
This week I have been posting the transcript of last Sunday’s sermon at Cornerstone piece by piece here at Lillie-Put. If you have missed any of this series you can catch up HERE.
Here is today’s portion:
Part five of this series is about moving in power. Once you have been cleansed from your sinful behavior God calls you to undo the works of the devil not just in your own life but in the world. You see, Christianity isn’t just about fixing your personal life. It is not a self help program. It is a world help program. Allowing your own life to be healed and made holy is only step two after being born again. Step three is about getting into the world and focusing the power of God on others.
Listen young men and young women, God has a ministry for you in the church and a mission for you in the world and it is time for you to start doing it!
You say, ” I am too busy to be in a church ministry.”
You say, “I have my own family to take care of I can’t help anyone else.”
Then you are saying “no” to being part of the conspiracy.
You say, ” But that is not fair! I barely have the strength to take care of myself. How can I help someone else?”
Now you know why Jesus said to His disciples, “ ‘Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. 5John baptized withb water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
6So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, ‘Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?’
7 He replied, ‘The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth’.” Acts 1: 4-8
The reason you feel you don’t have the strength to obey God’s commands is because you have not been filled with the Holy Spirit or because you are not walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.
It is true, by ourselves we can do nothing (see John 15). It is only when we are abiding in Christ, walking in the fullness of the baptism of the Holy Spirit that we can accomplish the things of God.What I am sharing with you is not just the teaching of the Assemblies of God; That is the teaching of Scripture and the command of Jesus. We may disagree on how the baptism functions but we cannot deny that Jesus said we needed it; Nor can we deny that there is no direct command anywhere in the writings of the New Testament writers where that order of Jesus was rescinded.
If you have not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit let me encourage you to go to God in prayer to ask for it. Wait for it, that is to keep praying for it ever time you pray until you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have been clothed with that “Power from on high”.
I look forward to your comments and questions. See you tomorrow!
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Color Your World Mountain Meadow
It’s time to head to the heights with our next color. That would be MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
There are lots of mountain meadow posts to be seen by clicking the underlined link.
Here is the shade and my matches:
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Lost and Found (part 4 of 4)
This is part 4 and the final entry in Nicole’s short series bringing attention to National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. I want to thank Nicole for her courageous posts.
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In the midst of my eating disorder, I never thought that I’d be able to heal completely, but I did. 🙂 I am no longer bound by food or by the body image struggles that I faced during that time. The thought to skip a meal or exercise excessively never – ever – once comes to mind, because I just don’t think that way anymore.
Gosh, it’s SO freeing!
Now I don’t want to make it sound as though I have it all together, or that I never have ‘those days’. I am human after all. I will have the occasional ‘fat’ or ‘ugly’ day during which I just feel…
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Share Your World 2016 Week #9
It’s past time for me to 
Every week Cee invites her contributors to SHARE BITS OF THEIR LIVES.
You can discover how the rest of the world is sharing by clicking the underlined link. Here are the questions we are all answering along with my answers.
Have you done something you truly want to do today?
I get to do lots of things I want to do everyday. I love my job of pastoring and while there are pieces of it that get pushed to the back burner because of the craziness of everyday life I do really enjoy it all. Today is a day of office cleaning and administrating . I am finally getting to organize my desk and my office and that feels really good! Currently it looks like my desk blew up and that makes me sad.
What can you help the world with?
I believe I am called to help the world by bringing them to the knowledge of God.
If life was ‘just a bowl of cherries’… which fruit other than a cherry would you be..?
I would be a kiwi. Sweet, fuzzy and a little odd.
Quotes List: At least three of your favorite quotes?
I have so many favorite quotes narrowing it down to three is really hard, but I shall try. Here are three quotes on joy I really like shared by my friend and fellow artist Betty Knowlton:
- What a witness to the world Christians would be, if only we were evidently very happy people
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- Our sense of joy, satisfaction and fulfillment in life increases, no matter what the circumstances, if we are in the center of God’s will.
- Joy is NOT the absence of trouble, but the presence of God.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am so grateful that last week I got to preach at Cornerstone and that four people came to Jesus. This next week I am looking forward to leading worship at Cornerstone!
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