Category Archives: Daily Word
Post from Jacob Lowery
michael’s heart
By jacob lowery
the michael jackson deal has really made me sad.
(i’m going to exclude all of the bad parts of his life in this blog. i’m gonna choose to only think about his good stuff for now.)
i can remember my sister charity and i sitting on my bed holding a HUGE radio and listening to see how many times that the station would play “thriller” in an hour. sometimes it was 6-7 times in an hour!
his music is tied up into so many of my memories. i listened to it endlessly. the melodys. the arrangements. the instrumentation. the soul. it is simply timeless music.
i am sad. i am sad that he didn’t get to “come back” like he was trying to do. it would’ve been AMAZING to see and hear.
Summer on the Mount Update
At PSM we are studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. If you have learned and started practicing everything you have heard so far, then your life would start seeing drastic results.
As of now we have:
• Realized that we are the salt and light of the world
• Stopped being angry with our brother
• done everything we can to stop lusting
• Started loving our spouse and renewed our commitment
• Started simply saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without swearing or taking oaths
• Allowed others to insult us without retaliating
• Served others by doing more than they expect
• Started loving and praying for our enemies
• Started doing righteous acts such as: praying, fasting, and giving to the poor without trying to gain attention from others.
• Learned the power of prayer and how to pray
We are only half way there! I encourage everyone to read Matthew 5, 6, and 7 once a week to let the WORDS of Jesus seep into your body, soul, and spirit. His WORD convicts, sets free, and endues with power. Get into it!
-robin
Repentance
Ok I couldn’t help but to post this blog. After reading and rereading Mere Christianity, this has to be one of my favorite parts.
If you don’t have time to read whole thing, skip to last little part…wow.
Man is not an imperfect creature who needs improvement; he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, say you are sorry, realising that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor. This process of surrender is what Christians call repentance. Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent; only a bad person needs to repent; only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person— and he would not need it.
Remember, this repentence, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back to Him is like. If you ask God to take you back without it, you are really asking Him to let you go back without going back.
If you are interested in reading material for Christians, read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.
=robin
33 Lessons From 33 Years
May 3rd, 2009, I turned 33. Most of my birthdays are not real significant.
However, 33 is the age that many scholars believe Jesus was when He went to the cross and die for our sins. When I put my life in that context, it makes me think what was Jesus thinking as a 33 year old. How do I match up with a 33 year old Jesus. Is my life on track? What have I learned?
We are epistles written of men. Here are 33 lessons I have learned in the last 33 years: Read the rest of this entry
Robin Steele 