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Friday Night Faith
With high school, college and soon pro football wrapping up their seasons, I am reminded of all the time we all have taken rooting on our favorite team. We have all put our hope in them winning, perhaps even betting it all on the arm of some fly by night quarterback. What I’ve been guilty of and know many of us have is what I like to call “Friday Night Faith”. You’ve seen it time and time again. We buy our ticket, we watch with such sincerity, and we cheer like we have been suited up in practice all season.
The great thing about faith like that is it’s contagious; the bad thing is it rarely transfers to our faith in God. I honestly believe if we cared for our lives like we do our “boys” or our “team” winning another game; we would have faith that is unshakable. God would honor our faithfulness, just like wearing that old jersey makes your team win and the other one lose (don’t wash it that thing till we do lose either). I am praying that my Friday night faith carries over week in and week out. Will you join me??
Thanks to Paul Ellis for the post!
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What If?
“What if”, “if only”, “if”, terms that seem to pop up often when it comes to getting things done. Think about it. Do you need to exercise? “If only I could find the time”. Do you need to manage your money better? “If only I could make more money. Do you need to be a better leader? “If only they would just listen to me.” Do you need to share who Jesus is with someone? “What if they don’t believe.” Is God asking you to give? “What if I lose my job?”
What if we stop making excuses and do what God has called us to do? If only we would take the time to see how truly Great our God is. If God has called you to do it you better believe it can be done!
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
Take the fear out of the equation and replace it with God!
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“Greatness” myth or marvel ?
Posted by Guest in Faith, Leadership, Plan on September 21st, 2009
Recently I have been feeling different. Not bad…just different. Like most people I am sometimes on the mountain top. Other times I have been in the valley. The trek is often the most difficult part.
I spoke with a friend on a subject that I feel best summarized what the trek is truly all about. My friend’s name is Stephen Mclean and he was telling me about an upcoming appointment. He was going to meet with a gent who’s purpose and passion is to see companies and individuals go from “good” to “great”. I immediately wanted to desperately sit in on this meeting. I imagined most of us would!
I found myself thinking about greatness and the equivalents thereof. I imagined figures and their “great” contributions to the record and history books! People such as Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Babe Ruth, Leonardo Da Vinci, Serena Williams, Paul Rodriguez just to name a few. All these people found out what they were great at! This is the “marvel”. I know that to be true because that’s what we do with great people or great accomplishments we marvel at them. We sit and wonder and we hope and pray that we, too, will hit our stride on the trek and move into greatness as well.
We should all be seeking to be great. God speaks to Abraham in Genesis 12:2 and says to him how he will take an ordinary man, and change him into an extraordinary man…(I will make you a great nation, I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.)
See, even God desires to see that you become a man or woman who will be great. He wants to move you into a place of great influence. Just like the great men and women of the past that we marvel at…. we, too, should spark a little marvel and effectively embrace the greatness we are called to.
Be blessed and know God wants you to be GREAT at your passion. He designed you to fulfill your dreams !!!
By Paul Ellis
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BIG 30!
Posted by Vince Parker in Faith on April 22nd, 2009
30th post WOW! That’s shocking because if you know me blogging is the last thing I thought I would be doing ever. Yet for some reason I felt like I should. So after much prayer and talking to those who are good at blogging Scott Williams Anna Meadows
. It happened. Now 30 posts later I’ve learned a lot so I thought I would share some of it with you
• This is not easy
• I am not very good at Grammar
• Spell check is your friend
• God can use you in ways you never thought
• You learn a lot when you write it down
• I take notes on things all the time now
• Blogging can be fun
• Blogging can be work
• Its good exercise for the mind
• I read more now
I encourage you to listen to what God has for your life it might be out your comfort zone. Don’t he will take care of you and teach you so much about yourself (I know he has shown me a lot lately). I’m still not sure why I’m supposed to blog. Yet whatever the reason I know it’s in God’s plan for my life.
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
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Got in a wreck this morning!
Posted by Vince Parker in Faith, Plan on April 14th, 2009
So this morning I was driving on the highway on my way to work. Up ahead I noticed traffic was backed up so I decided to exit off and take a different route. Within 2 min of doing so I was rear ended now that just sucks. All I was trying to do was avoid the traffic and got in a wreck. See sometimes we are rolling along doing what God would have us to do and then things slow down or almost stop. That’s when we decide to exit of Gods plan for our life and take our own route. Then BAM! It hits you God’s got you. We may not always understand the slow down or the complete stops but God has a reason for everything. Just thought I would share with you what God shared with me this morning.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
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Good Friday!
Posted by Vince Parker in Faith, Good news on April 10th, 2009
This is Easter weekend and depending upon who you are it means something different to you. For me this is so much more than bunnies, eggs, dressing up extra special or over the top hoopla. See over 2000 years ago Jesus came to this earth fully man and fully God. He lived the perfect life that we should have lived. Then he paid the ultimate price and died the death that we should have died. Then raised 3 days later conquering death and the grave. There is nothing I could ever do to or have ever done that deems me worthy of this it is by his love grace and mercy that I have been redeemed. This is something we should not just remember on this day but every day and want to share how he has changed our lives.
If you do not have a church home I encourage you to find one and if you do I encourage to invite someone with you but not just this weekend but everyweekend.
Also try Church Online.
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Who R U living 4?
Posted by Vince Parker in Anniversary, Faith on March 25th, 2009
In Matthew 6:25-32 it tells us God is our provider that he will meet our needs. I sometimes wonder if people including myself believe that. I’m not sure if I did but now I do. See when I quit my job and started my own business, the money I use to make was not following in like it use to I had a few clients but not what I needed. You say why didn’t you get another job, oh I thought about many a times even prayed “God if you want to get I another job I will”. Yet I felt in my heart he didn’t want me to and I had to not just believe but trust in God to provide for the needs of me and my family. God came thru in so many ways he provide for every need we had and then some. Yeah we cut back on things like cable and shopping 2 things I use to be addicted to. See sometimes we put things before God and don’t even realize it maybe for you its money, TV, shopping that’s what it was for me. See with those distraction in my life gone I spent more time seeking God and not worrying about what I was going to watch on TV tonight or was the DVR set or Did I have a new pair of kicks(shoes) to rock this weekend. I was seeking God not the things of this world.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33
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Anniversary
Posted by Vince Parker in Anniversary, Faith on March 23rd, 2009
This time 1 year ago I quit my Job. I job I enjoyed but I know God had something different for me and with no saving, being married less than 5 months, 2 kids and no business plan. I followed what God had laid on my heart to start my own business
. The road God had me on for the next year is one that with out him I would have never made it. See the thing is God had a plan for my life, he had it map out I just had to not just believe but trust in him and fall back in to his arms and let him do with me what he does best. So this being kind of an anniversary of that I thought I would share bits and piece of that over the next week with you. In the hope that it is an encouragement to you.
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
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