These reflections are on aging with ADHD and impatience.
I resurrect an old reflection today as I consider the years. My night dreams are those of years gone by. The news I regularly receive is of friends who have died, I find myself far too attracted to nostalgia.
Yet, I remember what it is like to be the youngest person in the room.
I recall the energetic enthusiasm of having all the years and possibilities ahead of me.
I recite Dr. Suess' words with feeling, "How did it get so late, so soon?"
I am going to pass on the free link today even though it is also behind the pay wall.
Digging deeper from a message on opposition and division, we consider the role of faith in shaping us and preparing us to run the race of life as heroes.
In this sermon, we discuss a challenging passage from Jesus' teachings in Luke 12:49-56, focusing on the themes of division, fire, and baptism.
Jesus' message is more descriptive than prescriptive, highlighting the reality of division and conflict that can arise from following Him.
We see the paradox of Jesus as both a catalyst for division and a source of peace.
Jesus endures the cross, being both judge and accused.
He encourages listeners to persevere through life's challenges.
As we race through fire, we have Jesus’ presence and support.
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Digging
deeper from a message on opposition and division, we consider the role of faith
in shaping us and preparing us to run the race of life as heroes.
In this sermon, we discuss a challenging passage from Jesus' teachings in Luke
12:49-56, focusing on the themes of division, fire, and baptism.
Jesus'
message is more descriptive than prescriptive, highlighting the reality of
division and conflict that can arise from following Him.
We see the
paradox of Jesus as both a catalyst for division and a source of peace.
Jesus endures the cross, being both judge and accused.
He
encourages listeners to persevere through life's challenges.
As we race
through fire, we have Jesus’ presence and support.
Faith in
the Fire https://medium.com/p/faith-in-the-fire-87eb7c78fe18?source=social.tw
If you prefer, Facebook: https://fb.watch/Bvb74G1_yy/
Come to Church
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.- Hebrews 10:22
We have often heard and spoken the words, “Come to church”
When we say them, our hearts are right. Deep inside we know that the church is not a building made with hands, but a gathered people. We are inviting our friends to gather with us at the place where the church convenes.
What is the difference between a good law and a bad law?
No, this is not the setup for a joke.
A bad law oppresses people.
Bad laws put unnecessary burdens on people.
Bad laws prey upon widows, orphans, and the poor.
Good laws, by contrast, help those who bad laws hurt.
That is the difference according to Isaiah's prophetic word.
Isaiah 10:1-4
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Chosen, elect, or blessed, we must do the right thing in our generation, time, and circumstance. God loves us, forgives us, and treats us with grace, but we are accountable for justice,
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“The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness.”
What is the principal difference between wise people and foolish people?
It is perception.
Of course, once something is perceived, it must be processed, but the processing functions are often crippled by lack of critical and attentive. perceiving.
“Eyes in our head” indicates that we are paying attention.
We are receiving information.
We are seeing. listening, and noticing.
We are asking questions and hearing answers.
We are looking around, looking up, and looking within. We are double-checking. We are open. We are reasonable. We are sensitive.
Fools walk in darkness, but God gives light.
Walk in the light as Christ is in the light.
Ecclesiastes 2:1–17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine — my mind still guiding me with wisdom — and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life. I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself; I made myself gardens and parks and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.
So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what can the king’s successor do? Only what has already been done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness.
Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them. Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools? So I hated life because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
