Leaders and Servants

The world needs leaders!  

• Leaders that are strong men and women who know what determination is and shows what it looks like
• Leaders who have a vision and are well skilled at selling it
• Leaders who will not be tripped up or distracted by the petty or insignificant
• Leaders who can build an organization with mission in mind and success in their blood 
• Leaders who know how to attract people that will come in behind them and join the advancing parade
• Leaders who reek of confidence and self control
• Leaders who will take up the cause and never give up 

The world needs leaders!

Jesus wants servants!  

• Servants that are meek men and women who know what humility means and shows others what it looks like 
• Servants who will follow His vision and are willing to lose their lives living it
• Servants who will not overlook those everyone else calls petty or insignificant
• Servants who can participate in a living organism with surrender in spirit and grace in their blood
• Servants who know how to invite people to stand with them and join the eternal journey
• Servants who reek of dependence on the Supernatural and death of self
• Servants who will take up the cross and never let go 

Jesus wants servants!   

Each church body has one head.  His name is Jesus.

Serving,

Pastor Dave

In Awe

Sometimes it's best to really consider current events.  So this morning, as I woke, I wanted to write a note on something that would speak to what is going on right now.

Having just been on a tour of the Midland Law Enforcement Center, guns came to mind. Maybe it's time to share my opinion on gun control.

Nah.

With tax day coming up it would seem fitting to address our nation's addiction to spending more than we make.

Too obvious.

It's always interesting to talk about something that involves the political views of some movie star. That mixes two current events into one!

Really don't give a rip.

I'm looking out the window and it's snowing again.  Perhaps climate change, hurricanes, and meteors would be good topic.

It just sounds boring to me.

So here's the current event that I'm going to address.  The event that as I woke the news didn't report on, talk radio isn't ripping apart, and the web-world isn't gossiping about.  The event that comes to mind this morning will not be changed by a law, a new tax code, an overpaid actress, or an approaching ice age / warming.

Ready?

What could be more current than God's love for us?  If it sounds too cliché the fault is in your understanding of it.  There is nothing more important.  Nothing.  This topic impacts what goes beyond our capacity to understand - eternity.

It kind of makes sense that the biggest current event has been the same through history.  If the Roman world would have understood it what took place in coliseums and temples would have been very different.  If we would really understand it what takes place in our "coliseums" and "temples" would be very different.

The event to consider this morning is the depth of God's love for you.  If you need something more specific - think of what we will remember on the 29th of March and what we will celebrate on the 31st of March.

That's current. And it will be tomorrow. And the day after that.  And...

In Awe,

Pastor Dave

 

Why

As I was blowing the neighbors driveway out I found myself asking a question.  "Why are you doing this?"

A few reasons came to mind and not all of them were super spiritual.

1. I like to do stuff like that because I can.  In 1988 I was told I may not be able to walk within ten years.  It's twenty five years later and I enjoy being able to do what I can do.

2. I like looking at a blanket of snow a foot deep and cutting a path through it.  There's something manly about throwing snow with an engine powered machine.

3. I need to be able to get out and I don't want to have to get stuck in my own driveway.

4. I want to be nice.  I'm a neighbor.  Whatever else that means, it has to include helping.

6. Jesus did. I know he didn't walk Exodus Street in Nazareth to clear driveways of snow, but he did extend a hand to those who needed it - ask the crippled man who couldn't get to the pool.  My snowblower didn't heal anyone  

    today, but it did make their lives a little easier.

7. It's a time to talk with the Lord.  It's a time to think on his word.  It's a time to let him speak into my life.  It's a time when phones aren't heard and the "stuff" can wait.

8. It's a way of getting ready for Jesus to do more in my life.  Surrender to Christ includes service to others.  When I serve it puts my spirit in a position that God can get to.

I guess we all have those things (even if we don't have a snowblower) that remind us why we are doing what we are doing.  Why do we get involved in the world around us?  Because Jesus wants us to.

I'm thinking today that there is always a way to touch someone close to us in the name of Christ, even if we don't say his name out loud.

Get ready for God to start something new as we head into the Easter Season!

Preparing my Heart for Him,

Pastor Dave

List of Confessed Sin God Remembers

Thankful, 

Pastor Dave