Wonderful music today! Good worship leading (Thanks, Steve) and choir music:
There is nothing that's too hard for you Lord. Lord, I run to you.
I will rise.
Drama:
What would it be like to be showing what God is like all through the day? How would we drive? Has God ever worked for the boss? What would that be like?
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Pastor Delbert Enns
Individualism has become so real in our society. If you want to follow Jesus you need to be transparent open and honest.
90/10 principle. 9o% of life is under your control. 10% is not under your control.
If your young daughter accidentally spills coffee on your shirt and you fly off the handle, things get worse from there. Same story - different (caring) response, and you have a good day.
Mark 3:35 those who do God's will are Jesus' family. Jesus could set them free from the Romans.
Jesus chose 12 men to teach. Friendship based on what I can get does not work.
Jesus introduced an upside down kingdom. He taught in parables. The religious leaders got Very upset.
The Burmese pastor who suffered indescribably becomes a mirror and a window on our own experiences.
Listen carefully to what Jesus is saying. He says ''hear me" 13 times in this chapter.
Mark 4:10 Seeds and thorns. Yield up to 100× what was planted in good soil. Soil = heart. Some are hard. Preoccupied. Or shallow. Or crowded.
How do we react to things that come our way?
Next Sunday - Hidden in Plain Sight: Failure.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Fundamentally at Odds with Reality
What a nice blog title - don't you think? "We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect. They come away with perceptions fundamentally at odds with reality." By DAVID BROOKS
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation also known as the Communist Broadcast Centre) is such a cocoon. They recently did a story on "Factory Farms" as they call people who do a wonderful job of providing us with food in the most humane manner possible.
What these cocooners don't know is reality. They hide in their own corners and spew pontifications galore about how terrible it is that caring farmers take care of chickens and pigs in a clean environment that help these animals live their short lives happy and carefree. They don't know that a contented animal is a happy animal. An animal that does not have to freeze their ears and tails off in the great wonderful harsh outdoors is much happier than the one that wallows in its own excrement. And gets every disease, and loses its feet due to frost in the wonderful free range hell of the great Canadian winter. Free range animals get worms and parasites and when people eat that meat they get parasites. What a wonderful thought!
Check it out at here at CBC
Why isn't there a rule about fair and honest reporting? They need to give voice to the people that know what they are talking about. The pictures on the web have no connection with modern farming methods. I have seen pigs and chickens in the wild. If we wanted to raise all of them free range, there would not be a blade of green anywhere in the world. The pigs and chickens would have destroyed it all with their rooting and scratching. We and the pigs would all be starving to death. That would be better somehow?
Read the comments that are posted after their story. Clearly this one-sided drivel is serving the propaganda needs of cocooners that hide their heads in the sands of reality.
Where is balanced reporting?
Those of you that are in the know need to try to straighten out some of these ignoramuses. Clearly there are many people who are more eloquent than I.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Breakfast
We had the Irish Breakfast at Fionn MacCool's at Toronto Pearson. www.PrimePubs.com the potatoe pancakes seemed to be 1/2 cooked.
Made it from downtown to the airport in 28 minutes. Very heavy traffic by Manitoba standards. Last night it took 90 minutes from the airport to the hotel. We stayed at Choice Selby on Sherbourne
The new mayor Ford is trying to change City hall to be a fiscally responsible government. (is that an oxymoron?) He is privatizing garbage collection. Will he quit hauling all the garbage to the US for incineration?
My biggest beef - when will governments recognize the cost of using highway #401 as a parking lot for 6 hrs a day? Do the calculation - 300 vehicles per mile ×60 miles ×$100 per hour ×6 hours per day= $10,800,000 per day for 250 days per year = $2,700,000,000 per year cost to the economy. 1/2 of that is tax revenue loss.
How could we get the politicians to sit up and notice? A class action lawsuit? What is your advice?
Made it from downtown to the airport in 28 minutes. Very heavy traffic by Manitoba standards. Last night it took 90 minutes from the airport to the hotel. We stayed at Choice Selby on Sherbourne
The new mayor Ford is trying to change City hall to be a fiscally responsible government. (is that an oxymoron?) He is privatizing garbage collection. Will he quit hauling all the garbage to the US for incineration?
My biggest beef - when will governments recognize the cost of using highway #401 as a parking lot for 6 hrs a day? Do the calculation - 300 vehicles per mile ×60 miles ×$100 per hour ×6 hours per day= $10,800,000 per day for 250 days per year = $2,700,000,000 per year cost to the economy. 1/2 of that is tax revenue loss.
How could we get the politicians to sit up and notice? A class action lawsuit? What is your advice?
Sunday, February 06, 2011
1,000 years in Cambodian Killing Fields
April 17, 1975 was a day of celebration in Cambodia. It was New Year's day and they were having a good day. Then Child soldiers came and shot and killed Setan's friend. They rounded up all the educated people, shipped them out of town and shot them.
Setan put on rags and claimed to be a farm kid. He was taken to a youth Concentration Camp with 1,000 others.
Setan put on rags and claimed to be a farm kid. He was taken to a youth Concentration Camp with 1,000 others.
They had 3 rules
1. You are slaves
2. Show no emotion
3. If you break one of the rules you are dead
They torture killed 3 girls at the 1st meeting to show they meant business.
Of the 1,000 kids only 87 survived.
When they discovered that Setan had an education they set out to kill him and 4 others. They killed the 4 in front of him. He prayed for the protection of the Lord of the Universe and at the last second his life was spared.
The Healing Fields article was a secular news paper story that proved that his story was true.
He escaped through the land mines. There he met a wild jungle man who told him about the Lord of the Universe. His name is Jesus! He surrendered his life and met Jesus in the jungle. The jungle man told him to preach. 32 people got saved on the 1st day and in 6 months they led 35,000 people to Jesus. That revival was documented by Jerry Falwell.
Jesus came to set me free. Gal 6:10 says do good to all. He thought God must have made a mistake. He can't mean that. Told God to change it. 30 days of questioning the pastor did not change that Scripture. The pastor's pregnant wife had been tortured to death in front of him. The paster remembered the verse Who can separate us from the Love of Christ? When Setan went to preach that verse he saw the killer that had killed his friends and relatives in the audience. Rom 8:35 he forgave her in the middle of the sermon. That's when he was set free.
He gave the invitation: Come to Jesus just as you are. The killer was one of the people that came forward and accepted Christ. That's when he went by faith to witness to the rest of the Khmer Rouge. Eventually the civil war ended. Now there are 1,000s of people have come to know the Lord. See TransformAsia or LinkedIn book Miracle in the Forgotten Land
This kind of violence is still going on in different parts of the world. Jesus can heal.
Church of the Living Hope brought some interracial music and led in singing
Friendship - Eastview
If we compiled a book of all the silly things we do to find friends it would be hilarious.
What is the criteria we use to choose our friends? God never asks us to be something else than what he created us to be. Ask Him to direct us to the right friends. Pray for His direction.
God will help you to find Proverbs 17:17 friends. Friends who are there for us.
Seek first the kingdom of heaven and all shall be added.
What is the criteria we use to choose our friends? God never asks us to be something else than what he created us to be. Ask Him to direct us to the right friends. Pray for His direction.
God will help you to find Proverbs 17:17 friends. Friends who are there for us.
Seek first the kingdom of heaven and all shall be added.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
MissionFest Saturday night
Joseph D'Souza OM Dalit freedom movement India president spoke.
This year Indians are commemorating 150 years since slaves were brought to South Africa. The first boat had a Dalit (untouchable) who had a Bible. Now there are millions of Indian Christians in SA.
200 years ago Wm. Carey brought Christianity to India.
Why does untouchability still exist in the church of India? Islam does not allow untouchability.
Intentionally intercultural interracial church is what Christ commanded.
250,000,000 Dalit slaves are the largest and longest slavery system in the world. Karma says 15% have all the rights. The majority 50% are classified slaves. 25% of the population is considered dung. The Dalit. Dalits make idols that are then purified by the priests and worshipped by the Brahman upper class. In 2003 one of the idol makers wanted to see the nice idol he had made, and went to the temple where the Brahman priest killed him.
All Christian churches practice caste separation. No one wants to touch or interact with the untouchables.
They want freedom from 2,500 years of caste slavery.
Jesus' first sermon was from Isaiah. I have come to set the captives free. The messianic authentication. To bring healing and sight. Deliverance for the oppressed.
The Dalits need freedom - Jesus said the outcasts are first.
They have 4 requests:
1. Free our children child labour in India 100,000,000 captives need freedom. Right Now. By the time a Dalit child is 12 their life is over because they are Captives to the thinking that they are slaves, not in the image of God. We must teach the children. Slum Dog Millionaire is a true story.
If we are Christ's ambassadors. In 10 years we will have 1,000,000 freed Dalit children. Those children now call themselves children of Jesus. Sexually protected they now have a future.
2. Free our women. 100,000,000 women are trafficked. Untouchable in every way except in prostitution. Every family is required to offer one girl child as a sexual slave to the Hindu temples.
Jesus brings deliverance to the oppressed. As an ambassador of Christ I must help. 10s Of thousands have been freed.
3. Bring us justice
4. Bring us Jesus. More people have come to Christ in the last 15 years then in the last 200 years.
What does God want the church of Winnipeg to do about this? Pray. Pray that the Dalit system will break.
That people will be free.
Join us.
This year Indians are commemorating 150 years since slaves were brought to South Africa. The first boat had a Dalit (untouchable) who had a Bible. Now there are millions of Indian Christians in SA.
200 years ago Wm. Carey brought Christianity to India.
Why does untouchability still exist in the church of India? Islam does not allow untouchability.
Intentionally intercultural interracial church is what Christ commanded.
250,000,000 Dalit slaves are the largest and longest slavery system in the world. Karma says 15% have all the rights. The majority 50% are classified slaves. 25% of the population is considered dung. The Dalit. Dalits make idols that are then purified by the priests and worshipped by the Brahman upper class. In 2003 one of the idol makers wanted to see the nice idol he had made, and went to the temple where the Brahman priest killed him.
All Christian churches practice caste separation. No one wants to touch or interact with the untouchables.
They want freedom from 2,500 years of caste slavery.
Jesus' first sermon was from Isaiah. I have come to set the captives free. The messianic authentication. To bring healing and sight. Deliverance for the oppressed.
The Dalits need freedom - Jesus said the outcasts are first.
They have 4 requests:
1. Free our children child labour in India 100,000,000 captives need freedom. Right Now. By the time a Dalit child is 12 their life is over because they are Captives to the thinking that they are slaves, not in the image of God. We must teach the children. Slum Dog Millionaire is a true story.
If we are Christ's ambassadors. In 10 years we will have 1,000,000 freed Dalit children. Those children now call themselves children of Jesus. Sexually protected they now have a future.
2. Free our women. 100,000,000 women are trafficked. Untouchable in every way except in prostitution. Every family is required to offer one girl child as a sexual slave to the Hindu temples.
Jesus brings deliverance to the oppressed. As an ambassador of Christ I must help. 10s Of thousands have been freed.
3. Bring us justice
4. Bring us Jesus. More people have come to Christ in the last 15 years then in the last 200 years.
What does God want the church of Winnipeg to do about this? Pray. Pray that the Dalit system will break.
That people will be free.
Join us.
Ron Pierce MissionFest
Missions is working. The church is growing around the world.
Empower Ministries goes to the hot spots around the world. Gave away 900,000 Bibles. 800 goats. Ethiopian church is being converted. 100,000 Ethiopian pastors have accepted Christ.
Hunger for God is all over the middle east.
The Far East- Acts 8 the good magician- why is the story in the Bible? Simon was constantly amazed. After a while the amazement factor goes away. A Chinese pastor said n-ow they expect a miracle every time they pray for one.
Simon wanted to pay for miracle power. Peter said you have no depth.
Believers in Burma are maturing in their faith quickly and walk with God in depth.
Burma
China has 150 Millions of believers. They expect to double in the next few years.
Vietnam has huge church growth. A pastor came to talk to Ron - every one in his region has become Christian. They find the sickest people in the village and pray and God heals them. A very crippled woman was healed in front of all the people of the community.
Burma - 6 months ago - leader of full gospel church - when the earthquake hit. The Christians fed the hungry. 1000's come to Christ. Insein Prison the worst in the world. There are 8 pastors imprisoned there. The military decided to build a church in the prison to thank the Christians. 100s of prisoners have accepted Christ there.
China - they need Bibles in China. There is a huge hunger for Bibles there.
Recently went to the earthquake area. A 23 year old woman started 30 churches. She is hoping to go to Bible School soon. There are 1,000 applicants ahead of her. He gave her 3 boxes of Bibles to distribute.
Pastor David talked to us. In the 9Os he started preaching. The police tied him and beat him every day for 48 days. He was full of pain. He was rearrested and tricked to sign a paper to put him in jail for 2 more years of torture. God healed him and he walked around smiling. He was promoted to the top job in prison. He was released and he and his wife each have 30 churches. She was imprisoned with 30 girls in an 8×8 cell when she was 3 months pregnant. They got beat every day. Other Christian girls protected her. Now they have a healthy son. They have too few people to minister. Doors are wide open. People are hungry for the gospel.
Another pastor was beat up in another prison and released after they broke most of his bones. The guards make sure no one helps him. He lives alone under a tree in excruciating pain. God will heal him. The Holy Spirit is ministering to him.
Empower Ministries goes to the hot spots around the world. Gave away 900,000 Bibles. 800 goats. Ethiopian church is being converted. 100,000 Ethiopian pastors have accepted Christ.
Hunger for God is all over the middle east.
The Far East- Acts 8 the good magician- why is the story in the Bible? Simon was constantly amazed. After a while the amazement factor goes away. A Chinese pastor said n-ow they expect a miracle every time they pray for one.
Simon wanted to pay for miracle power. Peter said you have no depth.
Believers in Burma are maturing in their faith quickly and walk with God in depth.
Burma
China has 150 Millions of believers. They expect to double in the next few years.
Vietnam has huge church growth. A pastor came to talk to Ron - every one in his region has become Christian. They find the sickest people in the village and pray and God heals them. A very crippled woman was healed in front of all the people of the community.
Burma - 6 months ago - leader of full gospel church - when the earthquake hit. The Christians fed the hungry. 1000's come to Christ. Insein Prison the worst in the world. There are 8 pastors imprisoned there. The military decided to build a church in the prison to thank the Christians. 100s of prisoners have accepted Christ there.
China - they need Bibles in China. There is a huge hunger for Bibles there.
Recently went to the earthquake area. A 23 year old woman started 30 churches. She is hoping to go to Bible School soon. There are 1,000 applicants ahead of her. He gave her 3 boxes of Bibles to distribute.
Pastor David talked to us. In the 9Os he started preaching. The police tied him and beat him every day for 48 days. He was full of pain. He was rearrested and tricked to sign a paper to put him in jail for 2 more years of torture. God healed him and he walked around smiling. He was promoted to the top job in prison. He was released and he and his wife each have 30 churches. She was imprisoned with 30 girls in an 8×8 cell when she was 3 months pregnant. They got beat every day. Other Christian girls protected her. Now they have a healthy son. They have too few people to minister. Doors are wide open. People are hungry for the gospel.
Another pastor was beat up in another prison and released after they broke most of his bones. The guards make sure no one helps him. He lives alone under a tree in excruciating pain. God will heal him. The Holy Spirit is ministering to him.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Missionfest Manitoba Friday Night
They have a wonderful mass choir singing all our favorite hymns.
Guest speaker from the garbage dump of Manila Philippines. Doug Nichols grew up in a violent setting and his brothers died violent deaths in prison. In a drunken stupor a praying fellow student led him to the Lord. The nerd kept helping him. Prairie Bible Institute tutored him. He was packing to leave when a retired professor knocked on the door. Applied to 30 different mission organizations and no one accepted him. Got married. OM OMF Action are his favorite missions. OMF wanted to send him to Japan. No one but the Philippines wanted him. Why are there not more missionaries there from Canada? 100,000,000 people 90% non- Christian. Wide open opportunities to share.
Luke 9 You Do Something - Feed the Hungry.
35,000 children die of malnutrition every day. Somebody should do Something. 1,000,000 refugees landed in Congo 70,000 people died of cholera in 3 days.
What are we going to do about this? Lord, what would you have me to do? Lord, send them away. We have nothing. God says - you give them something to eat. You have some loaves and fishes.
Jesus takes it, blesses and breaks it and gives it back to us. If we keep the bread and fish for ourselves it gets moldy and stinky.
A little 5 year old asked "do you use notes when you speak? Then you are not very smart"
1. the neglected - every one needs the gospel -there are 3,000,000,000 unreached people in this world.
A). The elderly -they wear funny clothes.
B). Teenagers -they wear funny clothes. They are neglected.
50% off coffee. Stopped to buy some. Teenager at the counter was being abusive to the oriental clerk. Talked to him and began to minister to him. Under chemo Doug almost fainted.
C.) Muslims are neglected. We think they are violent. Met a Muslim on a flight. We pray for Muslims. To go to heaven. I will go to heaven on Jesus' good works. Not mine. Jesus Christ the Son of God. Gave him "The Quest for Life" gospel booklet and read it aloud.
Most AIDS patients die without the gospel. Kenyan people want white missionaries. They are respected and accepted.
D.) the poor and needy. The nobodys are not strategic so we neglect them. What does a street child do in a typhoon? What does a 6 year old orphan do when she has the flue? 800,000 girls in Thailand have been sold into prostitution by their parents.
God, what would you do? They sent teams downtown to minister to the prostitutes. Linda was about to faint when Doug sent her to a little girl prostitute and she did a hammer witness. The girl began to cry because no one had ever cared for her before. She led the girl to the Lord.
E.) The Children - True religion is caring for orphans. 35,000 children died on 9/11 of malnutrition. 160,000,000 homeless children in the world. God judges people who sell children into slavery.
What are you doing to make it easy for children to find Jesus? In children's homes. A pastor in the Philippines had 265 kids in his home.
Send kids to Camp. Cost $6 per child. 5,600 kids showed up for camp. They had send 3000 home for lack of money and room. 30 grandmothers were taking care of 300 orphans in a Malawi Village. Help them. They need missionaries. Jesus holds the key to your life.
Went to visit a prison for kids. An 8 year old abused kid came to walk with him. Hugged him. Waved at him through the gates. That broke Doug up. And he prayed for him. Tell them the name that is above every name.
Savior like a shepherd lead us. Blessed Jesus you have bought us, yours we are.
Embrace the passion.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The King's Speech
What a Bloody Good film! If you have not seen it yet, RUN don't walk to the nearest cinama. Certainly the best film I've seen in years!
Now l understand why my parents loved King George so much.
Yesterday we watched Maid in Manhattan. Very funny and good entertainment. Tomoko watched it when it was in the cinama. She had a hard time understanding the humour back then.
I took the fan off the furnace, soaked it in motor oil, and now it seems to work. I called 1/2 dozen Lennox dealers, but no one would sell me a fan. One of them offered to install one for $550. There was no way he'd sell me one. I can buy one in Chicago for $147.00 and it takes about five minutes to replace. Guess I'll need to see what I can find tomorrow.
Now l understand why my parents loved King George so much.
Yesterday we watched Maid in Manhattan. Very funny and good entertainment. Tomoko watched it when it was in the cinama. She had a hard time understanding the humour back then.
I took the fan off the furnace, soaked it in motor oil, and now it seems to work. I called 1/2 dozen Lennox dealers, but no one would sell me a fan. One of them offered to install one for $550. There was no way he'd sell me one. I can buy one in Chicago for $147.00 and it takes about five minutes to replace. Guess I'll need to see what I can find tomorrow.
Going the Distance Takes Time
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The PA system was way too loud today. At this rate I will need to bring my ear plugs next time. I do not enjoy suffering unnecessary noise.
Dave Ens:
God blessed the 7th day. It was the first thing He made holy.
It is part of the rhythm of life.
In "The Rest Of God" Mark Buchanan says enjoy the rest God has ordained.
Not by trying, striving, but by taking time. In Mark 3 the religious guys have rules. Jesus' disciples were threshing grain and eating it. Jesus said the Rest Day was made for people. We need to regain that rest.
Jesus demonstrated that healing and restoration was a good thing to do on the Sabbath. The religious guys plotted to kill Jesus on the Sabbath.
Sabbath is about restoration. We need time to stop to acknowledge God and to restore us taking time to restore and build relationships.
Lord's Supper Celebration.
What would it take time for you to cease the striving and to bask in the reality of what Christ has done?
When the bread is served take it and hold on to it. No music - it will be awkward but we need to learn to cease.
When the cup comes take and hold on to it till we can all drink at the same time. Let Jesus fill you.
The PA system was way too loud today. At this rate I will need to bring my ear plugs next time. I do not enjoy suffering unnecessary noise.
Dave Ens:
God blessed the 7th day. It was the first thing He made holy.
It is part of the rhythm of life.
In "The Rest Of God" Mark Buchanan says enjoy the rest God has ordained.
Not by trying, striving, but by taking time. In Mark 3 the religious guys have rules. Jesus' disciples were threshing grain and eating it. Jesus said the Rest Day was made for people. We need to regain that rest.
Jesus demonstrated that healing and restoration was a good thing to do on the Sabbath. The religious guys plotted to kill Jesus on the Sabbath.
Sabbath is about restoration. We need time to stop to acknowledge God and to restore us taking time to restore and build relationships.
Lord's Supper Celebration.
What would it take time for you to cease the striving and to bask in the reality of what Christ has done?
When the bread is served take it and hold on to it. No music - it will be awkward but we need to learn to cease.
When the cup comes take and hold on to it till we can all drink at the same time. Let Jesus fill you.
Lennox Furnace Fails at -31.5C
We woke up this morning with the temperature in the house at a cool 10C. After starting the fireplace and checking the exterior vents I checked the lousy (high efficiency ?) Lennox exhaust fan. The motor was seized up. This is the 2nd motor that has failed on that 12 year old furnace. Not a good record.So I took the motor off, sprayed it with WD-40 till it was completely soaked. Since the motor is welded to the fan assembly it was hard to get the oil to the 5 cent bearing. (Big print on the housing - "DO NOT REPAIR OR RE-USE) Eventually I got it
working squeakily. By the time we left for church the motor over heated again.After church I will see if Home Depot carries replacement fans. If not I'll have to cut the fan housing so I can repair AND re-use it.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Mennville EMC
Roger Friesen Song Leader
Because He Lives I can face tomorrow fear is gone life and is worth living
Great is Your faithfulness morning by morning. All I have needed Your hand has provided. Blessings all mine with ten thousand besides
When we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be. Sing the wondrous love of Jesus.
Acts 1:8
Reports; Adam goes to Steinbach Bible College. A group from there went to Inner City to experience missions 1st hand
Sarah also at SBC went to inner city (Jerusalem) last year and to northern Manitoba (Samaria) this year to the "ends of the earth" in the 3rd year.
Went to a fly in community where Tim & Sue ministered. Tim died and the church is suffering now.
Give God the best. Joyful hearts.
A group is going to Haiti (6 ladies 9 men) to work with Mission Possible. They are taking groceries in their suitcases. Pray for team unity. 2 people to volunteer to pray for each team member Jan 27 - Feb 12
Dwight Plett Pastor
11:50 start. White man's time means Cut the message short.
Change Invigorates?
Not always. Tradition can get stale.
Topic: When Righteousness Trumps Religion.
Religion is Rules.
Righteousness is associated with self.
Jesus talked about pure righteousness. 7:30 Wednesday join Dwight at the church to go through the rest of this Message. Or email Dwight for a copy.
Jesus walked through the grain field on the Sabbath. His disciples were ''harvesting" grain. Jesus defended them against the legalism of the day.
There was a death penalty to cover the breaking of the Sabbath.
The maximum work you were allowed to do was to carry one fig no more than 1,000 yards.
Jesus reminded the legalists, haven't you read the Bible? Priests work on the Sabbath. Plus Jesus has the authority to override the laws. He is Son of God.
Jesus healed on the Sabbath. He made a show of it. He asked if it lawful to save life or to kill on the Sabbath. Jesus healed the man and that's when the Pharisees started plotting to kill him.
Love trumps all other laws.
Jesus said it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. We should ask- how can I do good today? Whom can I help?
Speed limits are what they are. 14 years ago I drove at least 140 km an hour to get my wife to the hospital. I did not feel guilty. The need to get to the hospital overrides the speed limit. Speed limit applies only under normal circumstances.
More material next time. There is so much more Sabbath material. The bottom line is that there are more important things than rules. Reverence and love for God.
Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
If ever performance of religion prevents helping others it is not from God. Love overrides legalism.
Because He Lives I can face tomorrow fear is gone life and is worth living
Great is Your faithfulness morning by morning. All I have needed Your hand has provided. Blessings all mine with ten thousand besides
When we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be. Sing the wondrous love of Jesus.
Acts 1:8
Reports; Adam goes to Steinbach Bible College. A group from there went to Inner City to experience missions 1st hand
Sarah also at SBC went to inner city (Jerusalem) last year and to northern Manitoba (Samaria) this year to the "ends of the earth" in the 3rd year.
Went to a fly in community where Tim & Sue ministered. Tim died and the church is suffering now.
Give God the best. Joyful hearts.
A group is going to Haiti (6 ladies 9 men) to work with Mission Possible. They are taking groceries in their suitcases. Pray for team unity. 2 people to volunteer to pray for each team member Jan 27 - Feb 12
Dwight Plett Pastor
11:50 start. White man's time means Cut the message short.
Change Invigorates?
Not always. Tradition can get stale.
Topic: When Righteousness Trumps Religion.
Religion is Rules.
Righteousness is associated with self.
Jesus talked about pure righteousness. 7:30 Wednesday join Dwight at the church to go through the rest of this Message. Or email Dwight for a copy.
Jesus walked through the grain field on the Sabbath. His disciples were ''harvesting" grain. Jesus defended them against the legalism of the day.
There was a death penalty to cover the breaking of the Sabbath.
The maximum work you were allowed to do was to carry one fig no more than 1,000 yards.
Jesus reminded the legalists, haven't you read the Bible? Priests work on the Sabbath. Plus Jesus has the authority to override the laws. He is Son of God.
Jesus healed on the Sabbath. He made a show of it. He asked if it lawful to save life or to kill on the Sabbath. Jesus healed the man and that's when the Pharisees started plotting to kill him.
Love trumps all other laws.
Jesus said it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. We should ask- how can I do good today? Whom can I help?
Speed limits are what they are. 14 years ago I drove at least 140 km an hour to get my wife to the hospital. I did not feel guilty. The need to get to the hospital overrides the speed limit. Speed limit applies only under normal circumstances.
More material next time. There is so much more Sabbath material. The bottom line is that there are more important things than rules. Reverence and love for God.
Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
If ever performance of religion prevents helping others it is not from God. Love overrides legalism.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Going the Distance
www.Eastview.org
Steve Dick Songs: How Great is Our God
Then sings my soul my Saviour God to You, how great You are!
Your Name is a strong and mighty tower. Jesus in your Name we pray come and fill our hearts today.
Ps 86 I called, you answered. Teach me, I'll praise you.
Our God: Water you turned into wine there is none like you.
Pastor Dave Ens:
Aesop's The tortoise and the hare. Which one would you bet on? 0.4 km vs. 70 km/h
We like fast powerful events. We love the big events at the MTS centre. But life is lived every day.
Jesus' first act after the resurrection was to make breakfast. God is there in the everdayness of our lives.
3 years ago Dave ran the 1/2 marathon and as he prepared for it he started getting excited. Then he started running. The PAIN. Where had all the air gone? That illustrates the disparity between the magazine and real life.
The Christian life is like that.
Over the next 3 weeks we will be going through the book of Mark looking at the evaydayness of life and see how Jesus walked through life. Mark has Jesus moving quickly through life.
The whole city of Capernaum was at the house where Jesus was doing what Jesus does. ''In the morning while it was still dark" Jesus spends time alone with God. He has these spiritual habits in order to be who God wants him to be. Do we have those habits?
Do we think God wants us to run the marathon of life without training? Or does God want us to develop the habit of spending time with Him in preparation for the marathon of Life with Him now?
Give God the space to develop you. Work alongside him. In line with his desire.
Heart (will)
mind knows what we should do
soul knows what God wants. Personality
Body does what it wants. We get angry when we don't get our way. Fasting is a way of getting the body under control.
When you couple fasting with time with God you will change.
Silence is a good habit. Learn to listen to God, wife, friend.
Disciplines (habits) are developed over time (17?)
We will have Spiritual Disciplines messages for the next 3 weeks. Bring a lunch next week so we can discuss this further.
Steve Dick Songs: How Great is Our God
Then sings my soul my Saviour God to You, how great You are!
Your Name is a strong and mighty tower. Jesus in your Name we pray come and fill our hearts today.
Ps 86 I called, you answered. Teach me, I'll praise you.
Our God: Water you turned into wine there is none like you.
Pastor Dave Ens:
Aesop's The tortoise and the hare. Which one would you bet on? 0.4 km vs. 70 km/h
We like fast powerful events. We love the big events at the MTS centre. But life is lived every day.
Jesus' first act after the resurrection was to make breakfast. God is there in the everdayness of our lives.
3 years ago Dave ran the 1/2 marathon and as he prepared for it he started getting excited. Then he started running. The PAIN. Where had all the air gone? That illustrates the disparity between the magazine and real life.
The Christian life is like that.
Over the next 3 weeks we will be going through the book of Mark looking at the evaydayness of life and see how Jesus walked through life. Mark has Jesus moving quickly through life.
The whole city of Capernaum was at the house where Jesus was doing what Jesus does. ''In the morning while it was still dark" Jesus spends time alone with God. He has these spiritual habits in order to be who God wants him to be. Do we have those habits?
Do we think God wants us to run the marathon of life without training? Or does God want us to develop the habit of spending time with Him in preparation for the marathon of Life with Him now?
Give God the space to develop you. Work alongside him. In line with his desire.
Heart (will)
mind knows what we should do
soul knows what God wants. Personality
Body does what it wants. We get angry when we don't get our way. Fasting is a way of getting the body under control.
When you couple fasting with time with God you will change.
Silence is a good habit. Learn to listen to God, wife, friend.
Disciplines (habits) are developed over time (17?)
We will have Spiritual Disciplines messages for the next 3 weeks. Bring a lunch next week so we can discuss this further.
Sunday, January 09, 2011
One Heart Winnipeg
joining congregations together
Greater things are still to be done in this city
THE MUSIC WAS WAY TOO LOUD. After I stuffed Kleenex in my ears it was OK. They should distribute ear plugs to those who value their hearing. We do that at work. Remind everyone to bring ear plugs next time. That's better than Kleenex. No use talking to the sound man. He is operating the biggest and baddest sound board in Winnipeg and wants every one to know he's got the POWER.
It's hard to sing with ear plugs.
Holy Holy Holy all the saints adore Jesus; casting down their golden crowns. Holy Holy Holy
The puppets sang Praise God Tonight. Isaac was supposed to introduce the puppets.
Alleluia for the Lord God Almighty reigns. (Kara does not like my ear plugs. White is too visible.)
You are Holy Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the Lamb.
Prayer time: 30 more seconds. Pray for Winnipeg and Canada. 12800 people did.
Pastor Bruce Martin introduced Dr Brian Stiller.
Good morning Winnipeg. The Stiller clan came from Sweden and moved to Minnedosa.
What are the issues we face today? No other city has a combined worship service like this.
Every city has issues. Secularism is trying to suppress the church.
Is affection for Jesus Christ corny or weird?
5 barley loaves for 12000. How will that help any one? How do you feed them?
Jesus sees what others miss. Brother Cal Stillar won a prestigious medical award. Sandos pharma was looking for soil samples from around the world. A young scientist discovered what others missed.
You and I are made in the image of God. Everyone is "Made in His image"
What's in your hand. A shepherd's staff? To keep from stumbling. To rescue the fallen.
200 years ago a young MP went to visit John Newton.
To stop the slave trade took him all his life.
You begin with what you have.
Pain is the patagogical (learning) moment of God. What do you have? Give it away to find out what you have.
Seed only comes back when you give it away.
There are 2 kinds of people. Givers and takers. Where are you?
Lillian and Brian have been married 48 years. By being givers. That lifts self- absorption. Increases capacity to give more love.
It is not a zero sum game. When I give I get more.
Wilberforce had the gift oratory.
The homeless man has become a radio announcer. He gave his voice.
Give it away NOW. We had no money when we got married.
Begin with what you have. Give away your sorrows and your failures.
God will transform
Expand your business. Begin with what you have and give it away
An 80 year old grandma started visiting a prisoner. Soon others wanted her to visit them too. She did not know what she had till she gave it away.
Communion led by an Anglican priest. Grace and love like a mighty river flowed from above.
When I survey the wondrous cross on which the prince of glory died. Oh the cross bids me come and die and find that I might truly live.
Jesus wants to give you the gift of eternal life. You will never be able to earn it. It is a GIFT. Pray now; Thank you for being my Saviour. I'm sorry for the wrong things I've done. I now receive your gift. Be my Savior and friend.
We rejoice. You have been born again.
I can hear the thunder in the distance. Lay your burdens down. Revive us with your fire.
Started at 11am ended 12:55
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Nothing But The Blood
Happy New Year!
Could not get up on-time to go to the 10am service at our church so we went to a church with an 11:15 service.
www.RiverWood.cc
1500 people showed up in 4 services for Night Before Christmas.
Next Sunday at MTS Centre
Zacchaeus (Luke 19) was a wee little man....
The story works well for children. Nice story of repentance. That misses the real point.
Jesus was passing through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. It was a taxation and balsam production city. The tax guy was rich.
They were not popular. They were self-employed contractors who collected whatever they wanted, paid the contracted amount to the Romans and kept the rest. So they got filthy rich and hated.
Z wanted to see this famous man Jesus but did not dare to mix with the crowd. He climbed a tree.
When Jesus got there, he called Z "the righteous one" and invited himself for dinner. The crowd got indignant and complained about Jesus going to spend time with this scrum man. Arrogant and proud people take offence.
Zs life is turned around. Grammar can be tricky? The tense in the original is present. I "give" half I "repay" what I ripped off.
Jesus is about acceptance. Jesus came to Z because he is the outcast. Not to save the country club crowd but the least of them.
Who is the Z in your life? The scapegoat? The rejected in our society. We are called to be acceptors not rejecters. A Dr had to remove a tumour from a young woman's face. In the process he cut a nerve that left her face twisted. Her husband loved her anyway. He accepted her.
The point of the story is that Jesus searched Z and said there is no room for judgement.
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