Sorry but the plate is real full this week - lots going on and traveling here and there. Leaving for N.C. on Friday - I'll try and post some pics for you from there.
In the meantime, what are you reading or studying for Lent? What are you learning? How is your journey with Jesus? I'd like to hear from you.
7 comments:
N.C.?What for???
Erika-ur favorite niece!!
The opening lines of Bruce Wilkinsin's Secrets of the Vine read as follows: Have you ever been with someone very close to you who is about to die, someone who loves you and wants to leave you with a final word? "Come closer." You lean close, straining to hear.
So now I'm studying that book as well as those Scriptures of his last days, in preparation for the Lenten Study I am teaching. The intent...? To LEAN IN CLOSER and personally hear those lasts words and teachings of Jesus. So guess who is having to "lean in closer" in order to hear how to teach this series?
Erika, (spongebarb),
I am going to North Carolina to preach and teach for 3 days with the World Methodist Council on Evangelism. It's called the Cornerstone Celebration - lifting up Jesus as the Cornerstone.
I hope you're being good. Happy Valentine's Day.
PR - your favorite uncle
Not necessarily just for Lent, but for life, I'm reading Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength. Here's a guy who could easily let himself get caught up in fame and the game, but keeps the Lord and His will in the center of his life.
I also read an article about Tony Dungy in a recent Sports Illustrated magazine. It talked about how Tony had called up a guy who had recently lossed a child due to suicide and described how Tony offered himself and his empathy to the guy (Tony had first hand experience because of the death of his son). This started a friendship and close relationship between the two. Here, again, Tony was acting as a servant to others, helping out a fellow human being in time of need.
Isn't that what the Lord commands us to do? Offer ourselves to others and to Him?
This is great reading - very encouraging and displaying a great example of the Christian life.
RDJ
Reading since January:
Out of Control and Loving It. & The True Measure of a Woman
both by Lisa Bevere
The Jeus I Never Knew and The Bible Jesus Read
both by Philip Yancy
Surprised By Jesus and Never Mind The Joneses
Both by Tim Stafford
Faith Sharing
by H. Eddy Fox & George Morris
If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat
by John Ortberg
Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John
The Bible
Presently reading:
Everybody's Normal Till You Get To Know Them
by John Ortberg
Acts
The Bible
Presently and ongoing:
The Bible & The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Daily Devotionals:
In Touch by Charles Stanley
Teaching & reading from:
Teen People of the Bible by Daniel Darling (I am teaching my PSR class using these devotionals until May)
Learning tons & loving it!!! Our God is an AWESOME GOD! I love learning & teaching about Him!!
For those of you that read the comments in the above post, more than likely saw a few gramatical errors. Especially notable is the misspelling of Jesus name in the book that I read by Philip Yancy. I know this really does some of you in, not to mention any names,(L.B. & P.R.) but you know who you are. Ha Ha!! Somehow, knowing the charactor of Jesus, I think he is more pleased with the time spent reading the book and growing to know him better than the misspelling of his name.
For those of you like me, there is a teaching in the Amish religion (no I am not Amish, but it is still a great teaching)in which they purposefully make a mistake in each quilt that they make. In doing this they teach that only God is perfect and they humble themselves in that fact. O.K., so maybe I don't purposefully make my mistakes, but still when I do make mistakes it helps me to remember that it is o.k. because only God is perfect. I'm sure that there are gramatical errors in this post also (you can print it off, mark it with red and return it to me if you like), but I hope by shearing my little weaknesses it will encourage those of you who do not feel that you are great writters to go ahead and not be afraid to share your heart and words here too.
This afternoon as I have thought through all the books that I have read lately, the one that I have been most surprised by and would definately recommend anyone to read during the Lenten season is the "Chatechism Of The Catholic Church". It has amazed and surprised me with every turn of the page. When I sit down to read it I can immediately feel the Holy Spirit right with me helping me to understand each article. There have been some things that have been hard for me to swallow at first (just as there are teachings in the Bible that when first learned are difficult to comprehend, like praying for your enemies). But I have found that as I pray for understanding, it comes and I grow deeper in my relationship with our Lord. I am Catholic and have been for 15 years. I joined because I felt the Holy Spirit drawing me there (I thought to help them understand what it really means to be a Christian), but no matter what I thought I was there to do, I am so thankful that the Lord did draw me into the Catholic Church. It has taken 15 years, but I can truely say that it has been worth the wait. In the past few months as I have been reading through the Catechism, the Lord has used the teachings to transform me from the inside out. Each article points right back to the Bible and has given me a much greater understanding of the Scripture!! Even if you are not Catholic, I highly recommend reading the Catechism, as this is where all of us can trace our church histry back to.
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