Thoughts and Questions
Another Day Along the Way
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Another day,
A few weeks ago our college President, Mike Stewart, told us how 15 seconds can change everything.
Since I read the popular and controversial book, The Shack, I have enjoyed more personal conversations with three people who are actually one - Father, Son, Spirit.
Last week I dreamed about a friend God placed in my life many years ago. The thoughts while asleep reminded me to email him when awake. Years and miles have not damaged our friendship.
I've read a variety of Paul's epistles lately. Try reading a different one each day for two months. See what the Word's words might do to your mind, to your life.
This morning we heard a variety of stories in our Convocation, all revealing how this truth becomes a personal reality:
John 7:37-39 (NIV)
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
What substitutes have we chosen for the Living Water?
How will we let the next 15 seconds change us?
How will we change the world in the next 15 days? Or in the next 15 years?
What is God the Father saying to us in the next 15 seconds?
How is God the Son praying for us in the next 15 seconds?
What is God the Spirit doing through us on this planet?
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: I have no magic wand to wave over you and make it all better. Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
(The Shack, William P. Young, Windblown Media, 2007)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Another day,
A few weeks ago our college President, Mike Stewart, told us how 15 seconds can change everything.
Since I read the popular and controversial book, The Shack, I have enjoyed more personal conversations with three people who are actually one - Father, Son, Spirit.
Last week I dreamed about a friend God placed in my life many years ago. The thoughts while asleep reminded me to email him when awake. Years and miles have not damaged our friendship.
I've read a variety of Paul's epistles lately. Try reading a different one each day for two months. See what the Word's words might do to your mind, to your life.
This morning we heard a variety of stories in our Convocation, all revealing how this truth becomes a personal reality:
John 7:37-39 (NIV)
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
What substitutes have we chosen for the Living Water?
How will we let the next 15 seconds change us?
How will we change the world in the next 15 days? Or in the next 15 years?
What is God the Father saying to us in the next 15 seconds?
How is God the Son praying for us in the next 15 seconds?
What is God the Spirit doing through us on this planet?
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: I have no magic wand to wave over you and make it all better. Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
(The Shack, William P. Young, Windblown Media, 2007)
