God Revealed Through Nature...

"Nature and the entire cosmos blare the message of a powerful Designer. Our natural world, from the most minute atom, to the complexities of molecular DNA and RNA, to the innumerable galaxies—all shout the Designer’s intelligence. “For since the Creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—His internal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made” (Rom. 1:20). “The heavens declare the glory of God…There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard” (Psalms 19:1,3)."

This passage from Know What You Believe by Paul Little reminded me about just how real God really is! Sometimes I get wrapped up in my own life so much to the point where I fail to notice God's existence and His amazing Creation all around me. God is so awesome...

The Salesman in the Sky

I was contemplating today some of the attributes of God, and I realized that I always saw God as this big insurance salesman in the sky. I recognized that I had viewed him as the salesman that I called up and asked to sell me the best heaven insurance available. My family had been loyal customers for years, and they all said how great the service was, so I bought it. I was very happy. I went to all the company meetings, and every now and then I would call up the salesman and ask him how things were going; not really caring what he said to me. I would try to get my friends to switch to Christianity if the subject was brought up, but it wasn't much, since most of my friends had Christianity coverage already. I was sure that if and when I died I would go to heaven, since I had signed up for the plan. It never crossed my mind that I wouldn't. I mean, I paid all my dues! It had nothing to do with grace. If I paid I went to heaven, if I didn't my policy got cancelled.

Through some godly people and reading the Bible, my appetite has been whetted for something much greater than insurance. I've been a lousy guy. I've done some (alot of) things I'm not proud of. In my human mind, I can't fully understand Gods grace. Why would he choose to love someone like me, who's done things that are worthy of death? How can he call me his child? I don't know, but I accept it. I am much happier now than I was, and it's nothing I can take the credit for. God's grace truly does surpass all understanding.

Pray About Everything

Some good scripture; "Don't worry about anything; instead pray about everything" I believe that God is interested in every facet of our lives... from the huge stuff to the minute stuff that you usually wouldn't even think about praying for. God is so amazing. Sometimes it just hits me between the eyes, what an awesome God God is. God made all 125 billion+ galaxies, with over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, and he has names for all of them! He knows the number of hairs on every 6,785,483,997 heads. That's pretty cool.

Fully Functioning

Hello! I'm Josh, and I'm excited to get this blog started.

Our group is going to be doing some community ministries soon, and today God showed me a verse that applies well to our situation. It's Galatians 6:10 "So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith." We want to start with obeying 1st Timothy 5:3 "Take care of widows who are destitute." There are some amazing women of God that are widows in our church, with no one else to care for them. We need volunteers...