Just Keep Swimming
I have found a friend here who I can totally trust, someone who stretches my faith and encourages me as I process things. I don’t feel uncomfortable around them and can act myself. Though we have only been friends for about a year, it feels like we have been friends for a life time but this friendship didn't develop overnight. It took time to learn about each other. It was not an easy process but worth the work. Our relationship is a great blessing from God. … Read more >>All I want for Christmas
Union Church of Manila's Youth Group, Disciples of Christ did a two week series called "Aall I Want for Christmas" to talk about greed. The first week Amy Allen talked about "Lies" we believe about God that make us greedy: 1. God doesn't have enough. 2. God withholds. 3. God isn't involved/doesn't care. Amy used the Word of God to show how those are wrong. Then she asked the students two questions: 1.Do things own you or do you own them? 2. Do you want Christ More than other things? She concluded her lesson with the word Christmas. She… Read more >>No Longer a Slave...
“By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing,… Read more >>Love is...
Seems like the word love is overused...I love that show, I love the color purple, I love cheese, love you… I Corinthians 13 explains love in a different way. It says: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.” I experienced this kind of love watching my… Read more >>