family is such a gift...

I need help...

I am a chronic multitasker

and an anticipatory griever.

The good news...

The buckeye game was a great time...

number 1 !

I did my bulletin board on the Blood:Water Mission... its the best one I think I have done in all 3 years of being an RA. I hope people take notice... and care...

I have been reminded this week that Jesus came to offer us life... and offer it to the fullest. That is good news. Life to the fullest. Unfourtanetly... I don't think most of us understand what that means... I don't think we grasp the fullness of that.

This worship team from Kenya came to my church in Akron and led us last week. It was one of the most meaningful worship experiences of my life. They were going back and forth between singing it in their language and ours and when they were sining in their language I felt like I had never heard something so beautiful. At one point they were singing the line "He will answer you" over and over... the spirit swpet me off my feet and took me out of reality for a few minutes. I just stood there... I was not even able to speak at the deep realization that
he
answers
us.
I felt like I couldn't move. It was almost as if God spoke it to me from his very lips. It was a realization that I have never had/felt before.
He
answers
us.
In his own way and in his own time... but he does it. I can rest in that so wonderfully.

Unspoken truth is spoken everywhere...

Everyone is around... but nobody's here...

If love is surrender... then who's war is it anyways?

"The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" James 5:16

that is one piece of truth we can cling to... and i do...

but i wonder how often we really feel like we are "righteous men"... if we felt that way all the time i think our prayer lives would be radically different... i know mine would be.

but check this out...

Romans 3:22
"...this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe."

Romans 4:23-25

"23The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification."

we ARE righteous men... thanks be to Him...

we are righetous through Christ...

and the prayer of a righteous man are powerful and effective.

our prayers are powerful

our prayers are effective.

this should have an effect...

keep on praying brothers, God hears us... and he cares... and its effective.

what do we do Lord?

My beloved homeless friend Bob... who has literally changed my life.

God be the solution...

We'll be your hands and feet.