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Sermons

Two comments about the messages at Edgewood.

First, we started, through the efforts of my sister, a CD ministry at the church.  There is an older gentleman who attends very faithfully, and has been a great encouragement to me, who requested some sermons to take home to his wife, who is no longer able to leave the house.  After discussing it for a couple of weeks, my sister finally took the initiative to get it started.  Now we are rolling!

We will make the sermons available individually or in a set.  Then the sermons will be available to borrow from the church or purchase for $1 a CD.

Second, I get excited about little things like this which leads me to want to promote it.  The only problem with promoting this is that is feels like self-promotion!  No matter how I say it, it just sounds like I am saying, "Hey buy some CDs of ME!  Cause I'm just that awesome!"  So, I don't want to say anything, because I don't want to come across like that... but at the same time I want to promote the things that I am talking about!

For example, this last week I started tackling James 2:14-26.  A passage of scripture that has either been misunderstood or ignored so many times.  It is so potent in what it says that Martin Luther, the Great Reformer, didn't include the Book of James in his Bible!  We can't do that!  We can't be picking and selecting the parts of the Bible that make us feel good!  No!  I believe that Martin Luther eventually put his Bible back together, but we don't want to spend anytime away from the fullness of the Word!

So, if you would like hear a bit of the first part of the passage of scripture that changed my life  when I first read it back in February 1992, then I invite you to take a few minutes to listen to these words.

Living Faith: Part 1 from James 2:14-17

My time is up...

My time is almost up.  School starts in a week...

Good Listening

I just finished downloading a series of 14 messages by D.A.Carson.  He is one of those guys that I would probably listen to anything that he had to say.  I am posting this simply to recommend downloading these messages.

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Humanitarian Jesus

Humanitarian Jesus

Humanitarian Jesus is a book written by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson.  I heard about this book through several different websites.  It sounded interesting, even though I wasn't exactly sure what it was about.  When I saw this offered on the Christian Audio website, I knew that I had to snatch it up.  Now that I have finished listening to this book, I have been referencing it all of the time.  This book definitely got me to think.

The book deals with the balance between doing things for people and the sharing of the gospel.  The author illustrates this debate well with the pictures of a sandwich and a tract representing the two sides of the debate.  He asks, do you give a tract before the sandwich, after the sandwich, or stick the tract in the sandwich?  This is much bigger than a sandwich and a tract, but I think you can get the point.

My favorite part of the book is the fact that in the second half the author interviews several different people who are illustrating the balance of these two sides of Christian Humanitarian work.  The main part of the book and the interviews were very interesting and held my attention throughout.

If you are interested in this book, I highly recommend it.  It left me feeling convicted in two ways.  One, I definitely felt the need of, "We're not doing enough!"  There are such great needs in this world, and I know that we just aren't doing as much as we should be doing.  But even more so than that, I felt convicted that I am not even doing as much as I could be doing right now.  With the resources that I have and the things that I own, I am not doing enough right now.

Visit Christian Audio and download Humanitarian Jesus.

Living Faith: In the Goodness of God

God is good...

...All the time!

That is such a great statement, and one that we are learning at Church.  We have been discovering the reality of God's goodness and His unchangeability in the beginning verses of the Book of James, but there are many in our Church that are also learning this lesson through the trials that they are enduring.

If you have been questioning the goodness of God in your life, then you may need to heed James' warning in  verse 16 of chapter 1, "Don't be deceived, my beloved brethren..."

Download and listen to Living Faith: In the Goodness of God