The Ponderings of an Everyday Guy...After several years of being without one, I now am the owner of a recliner. It's really nice and comfortable. I try not to sit in it during the day because I tend to fall asleep in it. Well, I've only had it for a little over a year, but it's where I sit in the evenings. We do enjoy our luxuries and comforts in life, huh?
Unfortunately, that carries over to our "Christian" life as well. It's easy to be a Christian as long as we "do it" on our terms. Nice buildings, comfortable seats, heating and air. We can go and sit and watch the "show" on Sundays. If we don't like the preacher or music is not our flavor, we can just shop around until we find something that's going to keep us comfortable.
For the past few weeks I have been really heart broken over our brothers and sisters in Christ being martyred for their faith in other nations. Can you believe it? People are still being killed in 2013 because they are Christian. Folks, we are going to have to get off our backsides and get down on our knees and pray, pray, pray. Let's get out of the cushy "Christianity" mindset and "comfortable gospel" and proclaim Jesus Christ in our culture. God wants our best, not our leftovers. Pray diligently for our brothers and sisters around the world.
Remember: For God so loved the world...We do not have a monopoly on salvation. I believe there is a real possibility, we too may some day deal with the loss of life and church buildings because we have taken up the mantle of Christ.
Pray, Pray, Pray...
CW
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Where oh Where Were You...9/11/2001
The Ponderings of an Everyday Guy...I'm a day late with this posting, I just wasn't settled on what could be said that hasn't already been said concerning that fateful day.
Where was I when I first heard the news? I had just finished teaching my first class of the day at Spartanburg Methodist College and caught the news on the first tower and while watching I saw a second plane crash into the second tower. There was a tv mounted on the wall just outside the professor's lounge. All of us who were living then remember where we were when we heard the news. I remember the events that followed the next week and the pictures displayed of the hijackers. I remember our nation's leaders standing together (democrats and republicans) arm in arm.
Twelve years have passed by now and our world has never been the same since. However, I hold on to the fact as much as our nation and the world changes, and we may not feel as secure as we once did. GOD IS STILL ON HIS THRONE!! JESUS STILL DIED FOR OUR SINS!! JESUS WILL COME BACK AGAIN!! And I still preach the Gospel Message from the same Bible I did before 9/11/2001 and will continue to do so until the Lord takes me home.
Good News! Our God Still Reigns!!
Have a great day!
CW
Where was I when I first heard the news? I had just finished teaching my first class of the day at Spartanburg Methodist College and caught the news on the first tower and while watching I saw a second plane crash into the second tower. There was a tv mounted on the wall just outside the professor's lounge. All of us who were living then remember where we were when we heard the news. I remember the events that followed the next week and the pictures displayed of the hijackers. I remember our nation's leaders standing together (democrats and republicans) arm in arm.
Twelve years have passed by now and our world has never been the same since. However, I hold on to the fact as much as our nation and the world changes, and we may not feel as secure as we once did. GOD IS STILL ON HIS THRONE!! JESUS STILL DIED FOR OUR SINS!! JESUS WILL COME BACK AGAIN!! And I still preach the Gospel Message from the same Bible I did before 9/11/2001 and will continue to do so until the Lord takes me home.
Good News! Our God Still Reigns!!
Have a great day!
CW
Thursday, September 5, 2013
More Pancakes??...
The Ponderings of an Everyday guy continues...Sometimes you just have to order pancakes for breakfast. Sure, eggs with all the trimmings are good, but there are those times we want to mix it up and have the pancakes with butter and syrup. Ohhhhh... the wonderful taste of syrup as it trickles over the tongue and down the throat. Can you say yum?? Of course, we don't eat pancakes for every meal. Can you imagine what syrup would begin to taste like after a few days. Ugh!!! Not more syrup. We would begin to resent it after awhile and it definitely would lose it's "yumminess."
I'm from the South and have lived here most of my life. We call this the "Bible Belt." I can walk in any direction and find a church within a mile or less from my home. Every church around me all have a different flavor. There are even differences between churches of the same denomination. All good people with good preachers, but I've noticed a trend in the past several years that is bothersome and of great concern. With as many "Christian" churches in the same area, why is it a majority of the population are anywhere and everywhere else on Sundays and not in worship. Oh, I'm not blaming the majority population or even the churches. I'm just raising the question.
Could it be the church today has become so "syrupy sour" that we are not impacting our communities for Christ anymore? Have we become indifferent to a lost and dying world to focus more on our own survival? Has the church become ineffective and powerless? Sweet stuff such as syrup tastes good, but it doesn't nourish nor lasts. People need the meat of the Gospel. People need the truth and truth is a person and that person is Jesus Christ. We need to stop trying to keep everyone happy and start giving the best stuff.
Put the syrup away and pass the salt - Let's be salty!
Have a great day,
CW
I'm from the South and have lived here most of my life. We call this the "Bible Belt." I can walk in any direction and find a church within a mile or less from my home. Every church around me all have a different flavor. There are even differences between churches of the same denomination. All good people with good preachers, but I've noticed a trend in the past several years that is bothersome and of great concern. With as many "Christian" churches in the same area, why is it a majority of the population are anywhere and everywhere else on Sundays and not in worship. Oh, I'm not blaming the majority population or even the churches. I'm just raising the question.
Could it be the church today has become so "syrupy sour" that we are not impacting our communities for Christ anymore? Have we become indifferent to a lost and dying world to focus more on our own survival? Has the church become ineffective and powerless? Sweet stuff such as syrup tastes good, but it doesn't nourish nor lasts. People need the meat of the Gospel. People need the truth and truth is a person and that person is Jesus Christ. We need to stop trying to keep everyone happy and start giving the best stuff.
Put the syrup away and pass the salt - Let's be salty!
Have a great day,
CW
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