QUOTE OF THE DAY 8-17-20
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The Romans 12 Cycle: Teacher
In the lavender
By the lake I write the
Stories. Very few will ever read. Too busy
With the summer sun to learn.
Autumn annotates
The footnotes of falling leaves.
The mountains are my
Tablet. I write with the ink
Bottled in the midnight skies.
I sip hot coffee
By the fire, a book in hand.
I thread the needle
With my tinder thoughts in the
Winter land’s cold hard facts.
Speak forth the gentle
Green of reason threaded through
The broken mirrors.
Pieces make sense reflected in
Reality’s tapestry.
I am not the year
Nor a season, month or day.
I am but minutes
Unmasking the threads
To the finished work, God’s hand
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Mission Netherlands #missions # missionaries #funding
Hello WordPress followers. My sister Brenda is a missionary to the Netherlands. She is currently home itinerating (raising funds for the mission). She has a little over 3,000.00 in monthly support to raise plus a sizeable cash budget. She needs a financial miracle. She needs to have the funding raised and be back in the Netherlands by November. We are believing with her that God is big enough to get this miracle done.
Here are some ways you can help:
- PRAY SPECIFICALLY THAT GOD WOULD GET BRENDA BACK TO THE NETHERLANDS ON OR BEFORE NOVEMEBER
- SHARE THIS POST WITH YOUR NETWORKS. THE MORE VIEWS THE LARGER THE PROSPECTIVE GIVING BASE
- GIVE. THE VIDEO ABOVE EXPLAINS BRENDA’S MISSION AND HOW TO GIVE TO GET TO HER WEBSITE TO GIVE.
- IF YOU ARE A PASTOR IN: MA,CT, RI, NH, VT, ME, NY NJ OR AL CONSIDER HAVING BRENDA IN. SHE ONLY HAS TWO MORE SUNDAY MORNINGS BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER BUT SHE HAS SUNDAY NIGHTS FREE AND WEDNESDAYS AND IS OPEN TO PARTICIPATING IN MISSION CONVENTIONS. SHE IS ALSO A DRAMA TRAINER AND DOES WORKSHOPS TO HELP LAUNCH DRAMA MINISTRIES OR TRAIN EXISTING ONES
WOULD YOU CONSIDER HELPING?
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Pastor Wrinkles: Little Heroes, Big World Pt. 6
Today I am concluding the series “Little Heroes, Big World.” If you missed any of the previous discussions you can find them at:
Now here is the conclusion of the matter…
In our previous segments we discussed the importance of being strong and the importance of putting our noses to the grindstone and working; But if you are Being Strong and if you are working there is one more thing you have to do as a “Little Hero with Little Power in a Big World.”
YOU NEED TO STOP BEING AFRAID!!
Haggai writes, “This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’ Hag. 2:6
The truth is, God is going to show up! We are not forsaken! The Lord knows our names and He will never forget us! The remnant church is victorious and powerful! We are not condemned and He has made us more than conquerors! The only battles we have lost are the one which were meant to be lost and we are not called to go running into the woods with out tails between our legs! We are called to love this world with Christ’s love and to say with the old-time hymn writer,
“Faith is the victory!
Faith is the victory!
O glorious victory, that overcomes the world.
His banner over us is love, Our sword the Word of God.
We tread the road the saints above With shouts of triumph trod.
By faith, they like a whirlwind’s breath, Swept on o’er every field.
The faith by which they conquered death Is still our shining shield.
On every hand the foe we find Drawn up in dread array.
Let tents of ease be left behind, And onward to the fray.
Salvation’s helmet on each head, With truth all girt about,
The earth shall tremble ‘neath our tread, And echo with our shout.
Faith is the victory!
Faith is the victory!
O glorious victory, that overcomes the world.” John Yates, Ira Sankey
If today you need to overcome the world, maybe it’s time for you to get a little strong, do a little work and maybe it is time to shoot down fear by giving up a shout of praise that faith is the victory!
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Enter Their Pain!
Here are some great quotes from our guest Missionary at Cornerstone yesterday…
“Jesus really is the Savior of the world”- M.G.
” Jesus has not called us to shrink back from the sin and pain of the world. He has called us to enter into it, to minister to it.”- M.G.
“We have to help people understand what it is they already long for.”- M.G.
“The deeper the pit the stronger the search for God.”- M.G.
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Afloating
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Afloat.”
Here is our photo challenge.
This week, show us what afloat means to you.
Clouds float in the sky.
Boats float in the water.
And little ducks float too!
Hope floats from the heart of prayer.
The church floats in eternity.
Not buildings me and you!
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Cee’s Church Of Fun!
This week Cee has encouraged us to have fun with church photos in her
Click on the funny face and you will be transported into a world of fun churches.
Here are my church photos and some churchified quotes.
The ruined sanctuary of Cashel
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Doorways to the Old Center Church Winchendon MA
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, is Church of Ireland a Prfotestant denomination.
For years I thought my assignment or the Church’s assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don’t support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
1st Bible Baptist Church, Gardner MA
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Be the Church
The crucifix at Kylemore Abbey
Gandhi was once quoted as saying,
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.”
and you know sometimes I can understand his point of view. There are moments when, as Mr. Gandhi stated,
“Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
There are days when it is hard to love the people of the church. There are days when it is even hard to be a part of the church. There are days when as Christians we are tempted to chuck it all and go the Christian faith alone. Here is the thing though, Christianity is a team sport. To “go it alone” as a Christian is akin to trying to play basketball or soccer (football for those of you outside of the U.S.) by yourself. IT DOESN’T WORK!!!!
Chris Tiegreen has said,
“Blood is thicker than water….the Spirit is thicker than blood.”
And Matthew Henry has written,
“When we take God as our God, we take His people as our people.”
For better or worse when we accept Christ we are adopted into a family and that comes not only with the blessings of eternal life in Heaven but with the responsibility of loving and working with the rest of this humongous family we call the church.
The Apostle John wrote,
“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. 10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister] lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.” I John 2:9-11
Now some of you will say, “Well I don’t hate the people of the church. I just don’t want to have anything to do with them.”
I have to point out that functionally there is little difference between those two things. You are called not just to “not hate” the church. John calls you to “love your brothers and sisters in the church” and that means being involved with them.
I get it. Family is hard. Church is hard. But in the end we are are called to it. In Heaven you will be a part of the church so you might as well practice being a part of it now no matter how hard it might be.
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Pastor Wrinkle’s Favorite Scriptures 5
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus Phil 1:6 NIV
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Prophetical-Priestly Quotes 16
“The wilderness inside today’s church is a much greater threat than the storm on the outside.” Darius L. Salter
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