Here is day three in our Daily live series concerning building a mindset of strength and courage. We build a mindset of strength and courage when we focus on the health of our relationship with Jesus.
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Tuesday Morning Recap From the Vicarage:Live in Peace, Live in Faith
Here is today’s deepening of Sunday morning’s sermon.
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Monday Morning Recap From the Vicarage: Live Truthfully, Live Righteously
This is a deeper dive into part of my sermon from yesterday.
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Enter the Promise Pt. 1
Here is the sermon I preached yesterday from Cornerstone Church
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2021 At the Vicarage Week #8
Feb. 19th– Well today was sooooper busy. We spent the morning completing our cleaning project on the downstairs because we had a couple of ladies out today who are going to come sit with Mom on Sunday while the rest of us are at church. At the same time we had the furnace guy in to do the yearly maintenance on the old oil burner. I would have cancelled that but ====they book out four months sooooo….
Feb. 20th– Today I really tried to hunker down in prayer to get ready for tomorrow’s service. The new pace with Mom is going to take some getting used to. I am sleeping on the couch until she can actually get top the bathroom by herself. She is generally up at least once a night and at this point it takes her a while to get to sleep because of her pain level.
Feb. 21st- Today was our first service without Pastor Dan and the Lewiston family. Pastor Nick Fatato spoke to us today about being the Lord’s hand in our generation. Hannah the lady who came to help mom was so nice. I hipe we have as much luck with all of our helpers.
Feb. 22nd- Tired.
Feb. 23rd- Staff meeting today. We were interrupted by several calls today from Cheshitre County Hospital in Keene where one of our elders has been hospitalized and may be in need of rehab. It was a little nutty. Then when I walked the dogs this afternoon mom decided to try and make it to the bathroom without her walker.
Feb. 24th- Today was a writing day. I wrote a resume for our board, I wrote my study for tonight’s Wall Meeting, and I started writing my sermon for Sunday.
Feb. 25th- Today was my day in the office. There is a lot of paperwork and organizational work and phone calling for” the point guy” of a church. I made up the title because I don’t really know what to call myself. I am not the lead pastor and I am not the interim pastor….I am maybe acting lead pastor….. “the point guy”. It works.
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The Lewiston’s Final Day
Wow! The end of a brief but very significant era in Cornerstone Church WInchendon’s history has come. Yesterday was the Pastors Lewiston’s last day. It was a seventeen hour day for me (hence the reason for my lack of posting), but it was one I shall not soon forget.
Here is Pastor Dan and Jen’s final service with us at Cornerstone.
Now we move as a church into that space called transition!
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The Need To Create
I find that particularly during the season of cold and ice, I need to find something to keep me busy that is productive but does not involve the structured planning side of my brain.
I need time everyday to just let my mind run wild, free from the constraints of schedule, housework, meetings, ministry and the needs of people.
I find such time in prayer.
Prayer for me is becoming an exercise in waiting on the Lord for inspiration. I do pray for people and things in my prayer time, but a vast amount of my time is spent sitting in the presence of the Lord listening to His Scripture and waiting on Him to tell me what He will. This I am coming to believe is the genesis of my creativity.
I also find the space of recreative freedom in reading.
I am learning to break my reading into two categories….Story and Improvement.
Improvement reading is the reading I do for work: It includes leadership books, ministry manuals, reports etc. I love this type of reading but it is decidedly not something that sets my mind free. This kind of reading creates the structures I need to be successful at work. I am just starting a new book called, LEADING CHANGE.
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The type of reading that I need to do to set my mind to run wild and free is story. I have worked my way through several stories this year….
And the one I am currently reading….
But reading is not enough to truly set my mind free from the shackles the world creates for it.
Prayer leads me to creating something of my own from the depths of my own soul to offer the world.
Sometimes this comes out as sketches.
Sometimes it comes out as photography….
Most often it comes out as the written word, here in a blog or in a story or a poem of my own.
I heard from my editor this week and she said the edits for my upcoming book, PORK CHOPS WITH THE SENTINELS OF AZATAN are on target to be completed by early spring.
That book has been my creative outlet for several years and now it is about to enter the organization phase. I am sensing that as I subject this work to the publication process, I also have to prepare myself a new outlet for the creative side of my being.
I am already praying about it.
DO YOU EVER FEEL THE NEED TO LEAVE THE CONSTRAINTS OF YOUR ORGANIZED WORK WORLD? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?
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Pastor Dan’s Final Night At the Wall
I am running a bit behind with my posting today. It has been a busy week with many distractions. Distractions are not good for me on the whole, but sometimes they cannot be avoided.
Anyway last night was Pastor Dan’s final night with us at The Wall Prayer meeting. He will preach his final sermon at Cornerstone on Sunday and then Amanda, Brenda and I will take the LEwiston’s out for a final dinner and they will be off to their new posting in Tennessee.
Here is the video of our final night together at The Wall. Next week I shall carry on with the teaching regarding the letters from Revelation 2 and 3.
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Pastor Dan’s Next To the Last Message At Cornerstone.
Pastor Dan preached a good one today…..
Pray for our church as we walk into this transition.
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Sudden Shifts, Big Problems and How God Helps Us Overcome Them All
This has been a year of seismic shifting for the whole world. It’s left all of us feeling a bit out of breath and a bit cracked. It’s left us reeling at the sudden shifts in culture and the big problems those shifts have seemingly caused.
Here’s the thing….all of this is part of God’s plan and if we can accept it, it is happening for our blessing. Not that it is all a blessing but…we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
Sometimes I doubt that verse…DO YOU EVER DOUBT THE PROMISES OF SCRIPTURE?
Well when I find myself in doubt I have learned a few habits that help me regain my equilibrium. HERE ARE FOUR:
- I PULL MYSELF BACK, AND TAKE A BREAK UNTIL I CAN LOOK DOWN ON THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN LIVING IN THE PROBLEM.
2. I REALIZE WHILE THE WORLD MOVES FAST I DON’T HAVE TOO. I SLOW DOWN AND TAKE THE TIME I NEED TO MAKE THE DECISIONS I NEED TO MAKE.
3. I REALIZE THAT SMALL SUCCESSFUL STEPS ARE BETTER THAN BIG MISSTEPS. SO I FIND A SMALL STEP I CAN TAKE.
4. PART OF MY PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS IS TO REALIZE THAT SOME PROBLEMS ARE NOT MINE TO SOLVE. SO I FIGURE OUT WHICH PARTS OF THE PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED BY MY GIFTS MIX AND WHICH PARTS I NEED TO ASK HELP FROM OUTSIDE.
There are other habits too, but for the sake of space we’ll stop here. I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Lillie-Put 