God is good but he is not soft.
Eugene Peterson
Summer 2014 Ministry
2014 Ship Ministry (Hong Kong, Japan)
What God’s up to this morning…
…as my honey sits around the table with 3 friends:
“Then those whose lives honored God got together and talked it over. God saw what they were doing and listened in. A book was opened in God’s presence and minutes were taken of the meeting, with the names of the God-fearers written down, all the names of those who honored God’s name.”
Malachi 3:16 The Message
Getting an ‘F’ for Prayer
“For many years I was bothered by the thought that I was a failure at prayer. Then one day I realized I would always be a failure at prayer; and I’ve gotten along much better ever since.”
Brother Lawrence from the 17th Century
The World’s 3 Most Important Days
The 3 most important days in the history of the world are the 3 days of the first Easter weekend and 4 events that happened to one person:
3 days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
4 events: died, buried, raised, appeared
1 person: Christ
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that CHRIST DIED for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was BURIED, that he was RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he APPEARED to Cephas, and then to the Twelve…”
1 Corinthians 15:3-5 NIV
Happy Easter