Easter is this week and our church is getting ready.  Help spread the word.  Invite people to our services.  Offer kids rides to our church (with the parent’s permission).  Volunteer.  Minister.  Use your spiritual gifts.  It is all possible this week so do not pass up the opportunities that God is putting in your hands.

God can and does still use cracked pots.  After the service, one person commented, “Not only are we cracked pots, but we are moldy oldies.”  Whether you are a cracked pot or a moldy oldy, God can use you.  But onlyif you are willing to be filled with his spirit and allow him to work in your life.  If we try to do it on our own or refuse to submit to him, he can not do what he wants to do and we might have to face the consequences of our inaction.  So let the Spirit fall fresh on you, melt you, mold you, fill you and use you (Chorus Spirit of the Living God).

I hope everyone in my state gets out and votes on Tuesday.  Yes, it is only a primary but voting is essential to what makes America great and free.  And it relates to my message on Sunday about cleaning up the rotten mess that our world is in right now.

Nothing in all the world compares to our God.  One of the reasons why that I did not mention is that God is not part of this world.  He made it and is separate from it.  And he has the power to do what please him.  Are you doing what pleases him?

Weep before the Lord this week asking him what you can do to let the world around you know more about Jesus.

The question every Christian and every church needs to ask itself is have we become a den of thieves.  Do we just hang out on Sunday in between our crimes against God?  Do we think that coming together one day a week will fulfill our obligations to God?  If so, we need to change our way of thinking.  We need to confess and repent and start doing what God wants the other 313 days of the week (365-52).

I was away from the office on this Monday taking my child on a college visit.  And I forgot the rest of the week to add a post.  So here is a post post post.

Righteousness does not come from anything we have done.  The Bible makes this clear.  The only righteousness that we can depend on is a person who perfectly and sinlessly obeyed God 100% of the time.  And the only one who did this is Jesus.  Do you know what Jesus did for you?  If not, contact me to find out more about him.

Being circumcised is more than just a snip or two on the outside.  It involves a snip or two on our hearts inside.  This does not take radical surgery.  It just is a commitment to listening and obeying God’s voice to us.  It is dedication to serving the Lord and doing what his word tells us.  Are you circumcised in this way?

Ending well is just as important (if not more so) than beginning well.  Just because you start off well, does not guarantee that you will end well.  You cannot take God’s blessings for granted, which I think we are beginning to do here in America.  It is important that we continue trusting and relying on God, or his blessings from the beginning may not last.