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Sunday Evening Thoughts

A few thoughts about the weekend at Living Water:

• It was awesome to celebrate with the church what JESUS did last week at Repossess.  I love how our church celebrates the WIN!
• Andy put together a GREAT Repossess recap video.  If you haven’t seen it, view it here.
• I walked in on the Usher’s pre-service meeting before the 9.  I love those people.
• I love worship and today we saw what a GIFT worship is to all of us.
• The thing that the Father is looking for in a worshiper is spirit and truth, not the quality of our voice!  Thank God for that.
• Worship flows from the OVERFLOW of what Jesus is doing in our life.
• Form and Substance are important in worship, but only as they serve to LIFT UP JESUS.
• HUSBANDS - we need to lead our families in worship.
• The Holy Spirit will always direct us to reconcile relationships that are out of alignment BEFORE we come to the altar of worship.
• Worshiping in preference will block you from worshiping in power.
• My heart goes out to the hurting people we were able to pray with and minister to today.  JESUS is the HEALER.
• I LOVE seeing people come to the altar for prayer.
• To every spouse that is contending for their husband or wife - you are not alone, we stand with you in prayer and faith-DON’T GIVE UP.
• Don’t come to church to EVALUATE, come to PARTICIPATE

I love you church family!  God is up to BIG things in the LW family.  Pray this week for something miraculous to happen and for God to open a door that no man can.

An unplanned "dad" moment...

Expecting...

 This year has already been an exciting year at Living Water.  The word to our church, "Expect an Encounter" has prompted all of us to ready our hearts for whatever God wants to do.  I've talked to several people who are struggling with feeling like they don't deserve to "expect" anything from God.   

If you've been thinking this way or have friends that are, this will encourage you.

Podcast - "Against the Flow" Part 4- Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst

Following Jesus was never meant to be easy, but it is possible!  In this study of the Beatitudes, we'll look at how the teaching that Jesus provided in this opening to the Sermon on the Mount is just as applicable today as it was then.  Join us as we learn to follow Jesus, against the flow.

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Podcast - "Against the Flow" Part 3- Blessed are the Meek

Following Jesus was never meant to be easy, but it is possible!  In this study of the Beatitudes, we'll look at how the teaching that Jesus provided in this opening to the Sermon on the Mount is just as applicable today as it was then.  Join us as we learn to follow Jesus, against the flow.

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Podcast - "Against the Flow" Part 1- Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Following Jesus was never meant to be easy, but it is possible!  In this study of the Beatitudes, we'll look at how the teaching that Jesus provided in this opening to the Sermon on the Mount is just as applicable today as it was then.  Join us as we learn to follow Jesus, against the flow.

 Download Beatitudes_1

Aristotle said...

 "Meekness is the mean between anger and indifference" - Aristotle

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." - Jesus 

Test Your Hermeneutic IQ

This is a link to Leadership Jounal's Hermeneutics Quiz. I'm a 53 which puts me at moderate on the conservative side of things... I'm not sure how I feel about that. Where do you fall?

Link: The Hermeneutics Quiz | LeadershipJournal.net.

The Hermeneutics Quiz Your biblical blind spots and what you tend not to see. by Scot McKnight

For some reason of late, I have become fascinated with the portions of the Bible we don't tend to read, passages like the story of Jephthah. Or how God was on the verge of killing Moses for not circumcising his son, and his wife stepped in, did what needed to be done, and tossed the foreskin at Moses' feet, and God let him alone.

The Hermeneutics Quiz | Out of Ur | Following God's Call in a New World | Conversations hosted by the editors of Leadership journal

This is interesting. I'm going to pick up a Copy of "Leadership" just to take the quiz. Do you think a quiz like this can be helpful or just confusing to help us better understand our view of Scripture?

Link: The Hermeneutics Quiz | Out of Ur | Following God's Call in a New World | Conversations hosted by the editors of Leadership journal.

The Hermeneutics Quiz

Scot McKnight creates a tool to uncover our biblical blind spots.
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As you read this, the winter issue of Leadership is hitting mailboxes. One of the more provocative features of the issue will no doubt be a hermeneutics quiz created by Scot McKnight. The issue’s theme is, “Is Our Gospel Too Small?” To help answer that question, we invited McKnight to develop a simple tool to assist church leaders in diagnosing their own biases and blind spots with Scripture.