Give … The Message of Hope
The good news of Jesus Christ—The Message!-begins here… Mark 1:1
With many stories like these, he presented his message to them, fitting the stories to their experience and maturity. Mark 4:33
God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center--Christ on the Cross--be trivialized into mere words. 1Co 1:17
Stay with what you heard from the beginning, the original message. Let it sink into your life. If what you heard from the beginning lives deeply in you, you will live deeply in both Son and Father. 1Jo 2:24
Why do we do what we do? Why have we spent the last twenty-four days thinking and praying about giving? There is only one answer: it is because we believe that there is a message of hope that can save to the utmost all who call on the name of the Lord.
This good message brings life to those who are just existing; it brings hope to those who feel they are going down for the third time, and they are just too exhausted to try anymore; it brings peace to those tangled up in chaos and fear; it brings grace to those who think they have to earn God’s love and favor; it brings truth to those who have lived their lives believing a lie; and it brings forgiveness to those who are bound by their hurt and their sin.
Deliver, impart, provide, supply, and commit – give all you are, give all you have - give until you disappear and all that remains is Jesus.
The good news of Jesus Christ—The Message!-begins here… Mark 1:1
With many stories like these, he presented his message to them, fitting the stories to their experience and maturity. Mark 4:33
God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center--Christ on the Cross--be trivialized into mere words. 1Co 1:17
Stay with what you heard from the beginning, the original message. Let it sink into your life. If what you heard from the beginning lives deeply in you, you will live deeply in both Son and Father. 1Jo 2:24
Why do we do what we do? Why have we spent the last twenty-four days thinking and praying about giving? There is only one answer: it is because we believe that there is a message of hope that can save to the utmost all who call on the name of the Lord.
This good message brings life to those who are just existing; it brings hope to those who feel they are going down for the third time, and they are just too exhausted to try anymore; it brings peace to those tangled up in chaos and fear; it brings grace to those who think they have to earn God’s love and favor; it brings truth to those who have lived their lives believing a lie; and it brings forgiveness to those who are bound by their hurt and their sin.
Deliver, impart, provide, supply, and commit – give all you are, give all you have - give until you disappear and all that remains is Jesus.
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Love the blog. Can we say too much about a Lord who deserves the praise of everything that has breath and to whom every knee will one day bow? How can we neglect so great a salvation that blesses us with the daily Hope of our eternity with our Creator? And what greater gift can there exist than the sharing of this Hope?? - Deb Sisti
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