Don't be such a baby!!

1 Corinthians 3

^1-4But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile?

^5-9Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working.

(1 Cor 3)

I don't know if its is good or bad to know that church bickering has been going on from the start of the church. That people were hard to get motivated and go beyond themselves and look at the greater good.

I know that in my own life it is hard to take change and I get cough up in doing things my own way, and I know there are times when God is challenging me to do something new and different. It's just easier to do it the way that we always have.

What is it today that God is trying to push you to do, that you can't seem move on? Are you are trying to stay in your one comfort zone and refusing to budge. God had great things in store for you today, but you have to get out there and be used by GOD!!

I don't know about you, but Paul sure knows how to say "HI"

3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1

Hey everybody!

Good day,

Dear online community,

Nope..there is no better way to intro a letter then the way it is done by Paul in Galatians. Man, it just sticks with you. Grace and peace to you from God and Jesus!! I think about how informal we all get with our letters and emails, that we forget how important it is to greet each other.
How often do we pass by each other at church and say "hi, how are you?" and hope that the other person gives the, "good, and you?" response, so that we can quickly go on our way and finish what we were going to do.

We are to impersonal. Is this the community of believers, that Jesus had intended for us? Or are we to be interested about others peoples lives, so much that we tell them "Grace and Peace in God and Jesus" and actually mean it!

I want to be involved with Jesus followers that care about where I'm at as a person, and I want to care about where you are at. I want to be excited about the things that you find exciting, Cry with you when you are sad, laugh with you when you find things funny.

We are a body, right? lets start living like we are actually attached!

Grace and Peace to you all!

I am Second

²¹Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

(Mark 3:21)
We all know this story.(if not look it up and read all of Mark 3. Great chapter on faith!!)
The one thing that has always bugged me about the passage is that Jesus never directly tells the rich man what that one thing is. I know that he is talking to him about that money can be bad. He talks elsewhere that it is root of all evil. But people have done good things with money, right. Churches depend on money to survive. We all need at least some; how else am I going to write this blog with out my MacBook? ;)

But it's a hart thing. What is it that rules you. Do you put money first in your life, or Jesus? Do you control the cash, or does the cash control you?

Though the whole chapter of Mark 3, it's talks about faith. From faith in God to take care of your financial needs to your physical needs. I feel that he is telling the rich man that, that one thing he is lacking is faith. He is telling the rich man to give it up, follow Him and and let Jesus take care of his needs.

I recently have been blessed by a website called "I am second" (iamsecond.com) and it has testimonials from everyday people to celebrities like Joe Gibs and Stephan Baldwin. (BTW Baldwin's testimony...Amazing!!) But it is a site that calls to put us and everything else in our lives second. God first, everything else second!

Take a look it is powerful stuff