Sunday 3rd August 2008 Us.

That photo was taken at a friends house last month. Count it a miracle. I can count on one hand with fingers to spare, the number of photo's that have been taken of me. I agree with our Lord. I don't do photo's. I take photo's, I do not have photo's taken of me if I can help it.
Today is Sunday. We went to St Lukes today at nine fifteen this morning. Now church can be a funny thing. I will make a fool of myself now. The singing was excellent. We had 4 hymns. Did I tell you, I love hymns. I am a hymn man. I don't do crash bang wallop church music all that well. Yes, I can tolerate it in small doses with a long time between each dose. It is sometimes called 711 music. Seven words sung eleven times. Also most just have drums. Take drums out of a lot of modern songs and what have you got? Silence. I think you get the picture now.
The prayer, the church prayer that is, I found boring. Yep, that's me. It was boring. The person said a bit then we had silent time. I don't mind silent time. But I like prayer to be a bit noisy. That's me. Now my daring wife, that her with the red top on (isn't she good looking?) she thought the prayer was good and she found it deep and meaningful. I found it boring.
Then we had the sermon. That was OK. Today's topic was busyness in the modern day. And used Luke 5:1-11 for the gospel reading. Did I tell you, we all stand when the gospel is read. Now what that reading had to do with busyness I have no idea. But what Phil did say about prioritising was relevant. He waffled on a bit, ministers do that, but it was good waffle. And if you want a photo of young Phil, he is 12 months older than me, but I am young, go here and while your at it, read Phil's focus. And he is good looking. Not as good as me, but not everyone can't be that good.
So, that was this morning. This afternoon Cathy is sleeping. Michele is playing what ever 4.5 going on 45's play. Stephanie is reading and I am doing this and cooking a roast. I will be grumbled at later for creating so much dishes to be washed. Yes, we do have dish washers: Us.
What's on the soap box. Plenty. Seems folks are a bit worried about the state of the economy and interest rates, look like coming down, petrol prices, coming down, and so on. Some are in debt up to their eye balls. I was like that once. Praise the Lord, He made me pull my head in a bit.
What am I listening to? Over here at Sovereign Grace Ministries there are some really excellent things to listen to and I have a had a ball. Also I like 66/40 by Chuck Misler.
Oh and there is a bit of a thing going on about global warming. That little problem is easy solved. Plant more trees. Yep, it's that simple. Trees store carbon. Carbon dioxide is one of the triggers to global warming. Plant more trees you get more rain and less carbon in the air. That was easy.
Global poverty? Now that is a problem. Cancelling debt will help. But as long as their are despots on earth poverty is going to be an issue. And as long as thier are humans on earth there will be despots. So I guess the solution is take humans out of the world and you cure all the ills of the world.
But there is one small fly in that bottle of ointment, or a fat spanner in the works. It's God you see. It's His fault. He gave us free choice. That really didn't help much. That is what got us in this awful mess in the first place. You see, we humans wont and cant do as we are told. It's called the sin principle and you can read about it here and the solution here and here..
I think you get the picture. We are all sinners. We were born that way and we choose to continue that way. Calvinist disagree with the last part of that, but I can tell you without fear of contradiction we do wrong because we choose by our own free will to go against God and man.
Jesus has provided a way out of that. God is Holy. He can have nothing to do with sin. This is where homosexuals fall foul of God. They want God to embrace their life style choice. God can't. To do so would be for God to accept sin and go against His own nature. He can't. But, He did provide a way of escape. Repent. That is turn around and go away from your sin. Stop doing what your doing. Ask Jesus to take control of your life. Ask God top accept Jesus death on the cross as your own. That's why Jesus went to the cross. To pay the penalty for your sin and badness. Put it in your own words when you talk with God. That's what prayer is. Talking with God. Ask Him to accept what Jesus has done as being you. Ask your sins to be accounted to Jesus. Believe in Jesus. Get born again. Only God can do that. It is a work of the Holy Spirit in your life as you become dead to your old life and become alive, by an act of God, in Christ. Look at John chapter 3. Accept a man is born again he cannot see God's kingdom.
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