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It’s all coming together

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Transformation in progress:

New Paint on the exterior of the building – from Smurf Purple to Schoolhouse yellow.
Permanent installation of the power point projector and hanging the new projection screen.
Relocating furniture in the staff room to make it more user friendly – a break room that invites the child care teacher to rest and regroup and recover.
Changing the layout of the main office to accommodate one more desk.
Holding the big rummage sale where we can meet new people in the area.

God is good!

Reflections on this past Easter Week

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“While we must always remember that it is our responsibility to proclaim salvation, we must never forget that it is God who saves. It is God who brings men and women under the sound of the gospel, and it is God who brings them to faith in Christ. Our evangelistic work is the instrument that He uses for this purpose, but the power that saves is not in the instrument: it is in the hand of the One who uses the instrument. We must not at any stage forget that. For if we forget that it is God’s prerogative to give results when the gospel is preached, we shall start to think that it is our responsibility to secure them. And if we forget that only Good can give faith, we shall start to think that the making of converts depends, in the last analysis, not on God, but on us, and that the decisive factor is the way in which we evangelize” (Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God [Downers Grove: IVP, 1961], p. 27).

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Hero to Zero and Back to God’s glory

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And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:19 (NIV)

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Just the facts: God is good all the time!

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Friends, again, my apologies for being absent from this blog the past month. God has moved us out of Egypt and into the Promised Land and as a result, we have been on the move and unable to do proper updates. What has God done for His children?

God revealed Himself in an awesome display of His omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence this past month. In the space of 5-weeks, He:

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We have entered the Promised Land

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¹Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob! ²Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre. ³Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast; ⁴this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. -Psalm 81:1-4 (NIV)

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Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are

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Sportswriter Sally Jenkins says that she is pro-choice which would lead me to believe that she is not a Christian. She certainly does not claim to be. But what she writes would lead me to believe that maybe God is preparing her heart for conversion. I will continue to pray for those who so vehemently oppose Tim Tebow and his pro-life Super Bowl TV ad (that has yet to be aired!). But, Lord, forgive me if I pray just a little harder for Ms. Jenkins. She’s a lot closer to exhibiting the fruit of Christianity than I was before God regenerated my heart!

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All you need is love

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I received this from www.tangle.com yesterday. It was put together by that great evangelical institution called Starbucks. They have put together a website called www.starbucksloveproject.com and features this tagline on google: “Love changes everything – including the world. Help me save lives by joining an unprecedented global event.”

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Higher Calling

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If there ever was a man I believe I would like to emulate other than Jesus, I believe that Tony Dungy would be that man. Here is a man who reached the pinnacle of success in his profession and yet did it all with impeccable integrity and devotion to God. Tony Dungy sees people who need redemption and sets out to help them. He helps them by being a man who commands respect; by being a man who lives his faith on his sleeve. In spite of family tragedy; in spite of the kind of stardom and success that make lesser men believe that they are above the law, Tony Dungy lives a life that has is law-abiding because of the grace that has been freely given to him. He gives freely to others who most people would call unredeemable because he once lived a life that was unredeemed until a man who lived 2000 years ago touched him and gave him new life.

In a world where people who have been given hero status fall off of their pedestals daily, Tony Dungy requires no pedestal and yet stands tall above the others. If my life can be a fraction of the impact that Tony’s life has been, God will be glorified.

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