Are you a Disciple?
Yesterday, we explored the concept of being a disciple of Jesus. What does that look like? What does that mean? Last night, my dad came on stage with me to discuss the sermon with our Sunday night service. He told us about a list he came up with to ‘check himself’. These 6 questions, are a way to take a spiritual inventory. I thought I would pass them along to you. Wow, they are very revealing to your intent and motives. They are inspired by Matthew 7.
Are you doing the will of the Father? Here is a check list to find out:
- Do you eagerly anticipate reading the Word and connecting in prayer with God?
- What do you daydream and worry about?
- Do you know more about sports (or other social interest) than you do about scripture?
- What are your goals and ambitions?
- Do you look to your job for security and self worth?
- Do you dress and act to attract attention to yourself, or to God?
PromiseLand’s BIGGEST Loser
Fourty Nine folks signed up for PSM’s Biggest Loser starting May 17th! What a huge start! It will include 2 training sessions per week with a professional trainer, dietary training, nutrition classes, and more. Plus, the winner gets $300!
We now need help getting the necessary equipment for the training. If you have any of the following “equipment”, and could donate it to the church, please bring it! Most of it is very uncoventional!
Medicine balls
Kettle bells
All sizes of rope
Railroad ties or 4-8ft sections of telephone poles
Used tractor tires
Used car tires
Sledge hammers
Work gloves
3″-6″ diameter, 3ft-5ft length pvc pipe with caps
Chains of all sizes
Old fire hose
Sand bags
Jump ropes
Boxes for step ups and box jumps, 24″x24″ and ranging from 3″ to 24″ in height
Stop watches
Power bands
4″x4″x6′ boards
Yoga mats
5 gallon buckets
Empty paint cans
Some metal folding chairs
Cinder blocks
Broom handles
For more information, email Daniel Hagerty: hagertydaniel@hotmail.com
becoming a loser,
Robin
PromiseLand | Gary Job Corp
This past Sunday, we launched a new satellite campus at Gary Job Corp. I am so excited for this ministry and Cedric and Lora Williams. Check out the letter she sent me:
Good Morning Everyone,
We had a great service yesterday!!! We had about 40 students awesome turn out they were very excited and ready to participate.
I want to thank everyone who assisted us this Sunday without your active role of being there and praying before and during the service. Everything wouldn’t have been so smooth. Thank you, thank you !!!!!!!!! Muncho lolWhere ever you are thank God for opening this awesome door for His chidren thank you Jesus!!
Also we thank you Pastor Robin for being obdedient to God and allowing us do exactly what God has called us to do!
Thank you for your support to our family we are more than bless to be apart of your family.Leaders: we discuss rotating Sunday’s so now we know what is needed and what to expect.
We will need at least : 4 to maybe 6
Sound system-Rose Medina and Ralph Medina
Let me know what Sunday you can commit to. Again thanks so much
We want everyone to be able to get their Sunday feeding from Pastor Robin on Sundays.
We don’t want anyone to get burned out….
So we have :
April 25, 2010-
May 2, 2010-
May 9, 2010-
May16, 2010-
I”ll do another schedule every 4 weeks..
God Bless
Lora Williams
If you are interested in helping out, let us know! Comment here or send an email to info@psmchurch.com
REBUKED!
Are you in a relationship where you are reprimanded? How do you handle reprimand?
Check out VADER reprimanding this guy for his “Lack of Faith”
Jesus has a similar scene in Mark 16:14 – for the same problem…”Lack of Faith”
Mark 16:14 Later he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their lack of faith and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen.
Check out what Charles Spurgeon said about it too in 1876:
Have you never seen a “coddled” lad? I have seen one, who ought to be in the open air at play, shut in a close room because his parents were fearful that he was delicate, and unable to do as other lads do. He ought to have been taking part in various healthy exercises that would have developed and strengthened every muscle in his body; but, instead of that, he was sitting down, tied to his mother’s apron strings, and so was being made weaker than he was before. He was kept in an atmosphere which was not fit for him to breathe because his foolish parents were afraid the fresh air might be too trying for him; and long before he was ill, he was dosed and physicked until he really became ill. Many a child has been murdered by being thus coddled; or, if he has lived to grow up to manhood, he has been a poor, feeble, effeminate creature, because the abundant love, which has been lavished upon him, has been linked with equally abundant folly. You can easily treat Christians, and especially young converts, in the same senseless fashion. If they are unbelieving, you can keep back from them the stern truth about the sinfulness of such a state of heart and mind, because you fear that they will be discouraged if you deal faithfully with them.
When your strength becomes your weakness.
I have been told from my mentor that no matter your strength in life, it can become a weakness if it is taken to the extreme. The question we have to ask ourselves is: At what point is our strength at its absolute best and when is it becoming obsessively destructive. Here is a very thought provoking article from espn.com writer, Rick Reilly.
A kinder, gentler winner?
Here is the question now about this new, softer, calmer, suddenly huggable Tiger Woods:
What if the same insatiable hunger that fueled his sex drive is the same insatiable hunger that fueled his golf drive?
What if becoming a better person makes him a lesser golfer?
Robin Steele 