God's Comfort Through Friendship

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Easter Song From My Past: Keith Green sings

This is the second Sunday of Easter and we continue in the joy of the resurrection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yIn98TIv4

The Easter Song by Keith Green.wmv

Worship video with lyrics we use in church. I do not own the music or the lyrics

youtube.com|By Keith Green

Where is my mind?

God, This week show me how to keep focused on You and not on the things here. May I learn to walk each day with an eternal perspective

This old, old story never grows old...it is new every day!

Have faith! God's love never fails.

With Us...

DEVELOPING STRENGTH

God is my hope and my strength!

AND HE STILL HEALS

John 21:25 (last verse of John)
"Jesus did many other things as well.  If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

John speaks of the work of Jesus while he lived on earth.  I speak of HIS work since his resurrection.  His on going healing is physical, emotional and spiritual.

INDEED, HE IS ALIVE!

HIS EMPTY TOMB

From The Garden to the Cross to the Tomb

The prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane was pivotal. Jesus went from "No, I don't want to do this...please remove the cup of suffering and death from me" to "Not my will, but yours be done". 

What Jesus experienced emotionally and physically at that time and then HIS "Father God, why have you forsaken me?" cry from the cross answers for me why Jesus had to be fully human and fully God.  I believe Jesus had to know what fear, loneliness, betrayal, physical pain, fatigue, disappointment and all the other human experiences and emotions felt like.  As a carpenter, perhaps he had smashed his thumb with a hammer and in that moment realized that some day the very men HE gave HIS life for would drive metal nails through His hands and feet.

But possibly nothing compared to the moment(s) on the cross when HE took all the sins of the world on Him and then cried out "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"  He knew God's answer of HIS Will be done was the forsaken and lonely and horrific pain filled hours on the cross.

Yet, back to the Garden, I believe HE could finally say "Not my will, but YOURS Father" because HE KNEW God would not forget HIM in the tomb, but would raise HIM to life and then it would truly be FINISHED.  Redemption completed.  Jesus fully trusted God at that moment even when hours later HE cried out "Why have You forsaken Me."  Is it possible these opposing feelings and spoken words of fear and complete obedience and faith cause people to doubt HIM?

Dear Jesus, May your truth expressed in those final hours and days bring me to trust you completely.  YOU are my prime example of TRUST...

HE was crucified for ME

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Anointing HIS Feet

Sorrow

Feeling a lot of sorrow...have mixed feelings about this emotion as I consider the disciples just before that first Easter as they watched Jesus suffer, then die...here I am, centuries later and KNOW HE rose and lives.  I've often sung that Easter Hymn about I serve a risen savior.  But here I am, with deep feelings of sorrow as I see and watch and hear about so much pain in our world and in my family.  I know in my head God is all power, all seeing, all present.  I know in my head HE is in control.  I know HE has plans for our family.  Yet, I am FULL of fear and all of the "what if" thoughts.  Can I let go?  Will I let go?  I can't control anything anyway...I want to want to want to TRUST HIM.

Blood Red Moon --- Hmmm

Attitude - Not Always Easy

"Give thanks in all circumstances, 
for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 
 -- 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Palm Sunday

"A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
'Hosanna to the Son of David!'
'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'
'Hosanna in the highest heaven!'
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, 'Who is this?'
The crowds answered, 'This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.'”
- Matthew 21:8-11

God Awes Us With His Creation

              Good Morning Sun

Thoughts about Holy Week

THOUGHTS ABOUT HOLY WEEK -
Lord, help me to be focused on YOU - your Amazing, awesome love that was decided before YOU created me, my earth.

YOU decided to bring us to a place to be made whole, good, restored, redeemed.  YOU decided even before my first breath.  I don't want to focus on the beautiful music and flowers.  I don't want to focus on clothes.
I don't want to do comparisons.  I just want to see you.  

Can this be the MOST SPECIAL EASTER for me?

Let me remember to feed the hungry, visit the sick, give water to the thirsty, visit those in prison, care for the helpless.   Let me have compassion for my neighbors...friends and my Trinity family.

BE ALL THAT I DESIRE.

Be Transformed

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. 

Romans 12:2 New Living Translation

You Are A Shield About Me

David then rehearsed God’s word, 
“You are a shield about me, 
My glory and the One who lifts my head.” 
He then was able to lay down and go to sleep (rest) 
in the midst of his enemies.
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HIS Amazing Love

"Greater love has no one than this, 
that He lay down His life for His friends." 
-- John 15:13

Save My Country

                      Amen!!!

Pray for Pastors

Pray for your Pastor
Pray that your pastor will guard, 
through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, 
the treasure which has been entrusted to them!

From Nothing...

How many are TRUSTING the LORD today?!?!

Courage vs Fear

Mercy vs Mistakes

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." -- 1 Peter 1:3

The Empty Tomb

Psssst! The tomb was empty! Spread the word!

Philippians 4:7 Promise

The cure for worry is the secure mind
“And the peace of God … will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7). The God of peace is with you (Phil. 4:9).
With that kind of protection—why worry? ...