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So I was watching TED yesterday and I went to Jonathan Harris's website after his talk. His website, wefeelfine.org is a different website that views blogs that have the line "I feel....." in them. It shows that the people who blog the most are those whose ages range from 20-29 years. The other thing I noticed is that there are tons of hurting people, and tons of hurting people here in Medicine Hat. There are so many who openly confess their sexual exploits and how that leaves them empty and hurting. I am not surprised at how many people are hurting, but I am surprised at how many are open about it. People are literally screaming for somebody to love them, and yet most of us feel scared to go out and pull them out of their pit of despair by telling them about Jesus.
Check out wefeelfine.org and see just how many hurting people are in your city and you may realize that we don't feel fine at all.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Love of My Life
Next to Jesus, my wife is the love of my life; it wasn't always that way though. about 12 years ago I was attending Briercrest Bible College in Caronport, Saskatchewan and one of the professors said something that rang through my head until this day. He said, "I was a missionary in a Muslim country and had a conversation with a man about arranged marriage. I couldn't believe that people would marry somebody that didn't love and most of the time didn't know. The man said something very profound, he said, 'You Americans (the term applies to North Americans) fall in love, then get married and ten years later get a divorce. We get married, then we fall in love.'"
My wife and I saw each other three times before we got married. We talked a lot on the phone, and email, but only saw each other for 3 weeks, one week at a time within 364 days. There was a lot of prayer that went into our marriage before we were married because both of us wanted to make sure that this was God's will and not ours. It was very easy to determine that it was God's will just by the answered prayer that happened, but we still sought God.
I remember during our first year of marriage I yelled at God, "You lied to me!" Leigh was feeling the same way. I thought that since God was in this that our marriage would be heavenly bliss from the start. There were many times in our first few years of marriage that we contemplated divorce, but never said it to each other. It wasn't until I started being the husband that God demands a Christian husband to be that our marriage started to work. According to the book of Ephesians I am supposed to love my wife the way that Christ loves the church, and give myself up for her and her needs and to help make her holy before God. I knew how Christ loved the church, and to be honest, it was hard for me to love my wife that way, but because God said to do it, I had to. I am so glad I did it God's way, now our marriage is much like heavenly bliss. My wife is not only my best friend, but my lover. Sometimes I feel like a teenager again with her, and I love being around her.
This Valentine's Day, I want my wife to know just how much I cherish her and love her. She is the most beautiful woman I know, inside and out, and the way she looks at me makes me feel like I'm the only man in the world.
I am so glad that I chose to obey God and love my wife the way Christ loves the church. If you don't know how Christ loves you or the church, you are missing out on the best love possible. Your marriage will never be as great as it would be with Christ. Almost everybody, Christian and non-Christian have the capacity to love, but Christ's love is much deeper. Let me explain.
Everybody has sinned against Almighty God, and that means that all of us are not worthy of God and deserve to go to hell for ever. The Bible is clear, there are two types of people in the world. There are bad people and then there are bad people who have been redeemed by Jesus. God did not see any good in us at all, but He still chose to love us. He sent His Son, His only Son, to come to earth to pay the penalty for our sins by dying on a cross. Jesus gave every bit of His being to pay our penalty in order to re-unite us with the God who so desperately loves us. Gentleman, that is how you are to love your wives. You need to give yourself totally to her. You want her to be reunited with God, and you need to love her like Jesus. And boy oh boy, she will love you forever if you love her like Jesus.
Leigh, baby, I love you so much.
My wife and I saw each other three times before we got married. We talked a lot on the phone, and email, but only saw each other for 3 weeks, one week at a time within 364 days. There was a lot of prayer that went into our marriage before we were married because both of us wanted to make sure that this was God's will and not ours. It was very easy to determine that it was God's will just by the answered prayer that happened, but we still sought God.
I remember during our first year of marriage I yelled at God, "You lied to me!" Leigh was feeling the same way. I thought that since God was in this that our marriage would be heavenly bliss from the start. There were many times in our first few years of marriage that we contemplated divorce, but never said it to each other. It wasn't until I started being the husband that God demands a Christian husband to be that our marriage started to work. According to the book of Ephesians I am supposed to love my wife the way that Christ loves the church, and give myself up for her and her needs and to help make her holy before God. I knew how Christ loved the church, and to be honest, it was hard for me to love my wife that way, but because God said to do it, I had to. I am so glad I did it God's way, now our marriage is much like heavenly bliss. My wife is not only my best friend, but my lover. Sometimes I feel like a teenager again with her, and I love being around her.
This Valentine's Day, I want my wife to know just how much I cherish her and love her. She is the most beautiful woman I know, inside and out, and the way she looks at me makes me feel like I'm the only man in the world.
I am so glad that I chose to obey God and love my wife the way Christ loves the church. If you don't know how Christ loves you or the church, you are missing out on the best love possible. Your marriage will never be as great as it would be with Christ. Almost everybody, Christian and non-Christian have the capacity to love, but Christ's love is much deeper. Let me explain.
Everybody has sinned against Almighty God, and that means that all of us are not worthy of God and deserve to go to hell for ever. The Bible is clear, there are two types of people in the world. There are bad people and then there are bad people who have been redeemed by Jesus. God did not see any good in us at all, but He still chose to love us. He sent His Son, His only Son, to come to earth to pay the penalty for our sins by dying on a cross. Jesus gave every bit of His being to pay our penalty in order to re-unite us with the God who so desperately loves us. Gentleman, that is how you are to love your wives. You need to give yourself totally to her. You want her to be reunited with God, and you need to love her like Jesus. And boy oh boy, she will love you forever if you love her like Jesus.
Leigh, baby, I love you so much.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wow!
I am going through my sermon for Sunday right now. It is titled, "Why Do I Need To Go To Church?". I am in the book of Hebrews and showing from the book of Hebrews the importance of public worship and how the church (not the building, but the people as a group) become the Holy of Holies. After I started preaching about the mercy seat found on the Ark of the Covenant, I must have accidentally hit a key on my computer and Revelation Song started playing. The lyrics go "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, Holy Holy is He. Sing a new song, to Him who sits on Heaven's mercy seat." There is nothing like an awesome confirmation from God!"
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