Repentance

John the Baptist came preaching in the Desert of Judea and said, "Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is near" (Matthew 3:1-2).  John demanded repentance to prepare people to receive Christ.  People are never ready for Jesus until they repent.  Repentance is more than confessing sin or being sorry for it.  A thief may confess to stealing something and be sorry if caught, but neither confession or sorrow proves that the thief has repented.  Repentance is turning from an old direction to face a new one.  I think this is such an awesome concept!  Turning away from whatever sin we may face and instead, doing our very best to live righteously for God!  What is repentance to you? 

Thank you Lord for your grace and forgiveness

Love Just In

sorry about the sermon...still waiting on the file... :0(

Beautiful

Today was an awesome and amazing day!  Got to church around 8:20am and didn't leave till 1:00pm it did not feel very long at all.   Ashley and I ran the JV youth today for both services, it went really well.  She talked about identifying ourselves in God...great stuff.  Usually the schedule for youth on Sunday is,  worship, game, message then break out into small groups.  Its pretty awesome!  This upcoming weekend is going to be pretty awesome also, we have big concert coming to the church.  There will be Disciple, Project 86, and Write this down.  Pretty exciting!  check em out on YouTube and if your in the area its only 10 bucks let me know.

Should be able to post my sermon up tomorrow sorry taken so long but its been a very busy week.

These next two months are looking very busy.  We aren't going to have any free time until about the beginning of April, but its all for God and I love it!

Thank you all for your prayers and support!  It is always much needed and appreciated!
Love you all!
Just In Faith

Im feeling spring!

High for thurs and fri... around 60!!

Ashes

I'm reminded as I look up into the clear blue or star filled sky, in Sheree amazement at his works.  I look into my past sometimes and wonder, just how can he still love me?  How can he just forget about all of the bad things I've done?  That's why I am so thankful for his love, forgiveness, grace and everything else that he is, because without him we are nothing, we are dead.  His forgiveness is so deep, that sometimes its hard for me to believe.  Ive learned many things since Ive been on this journey and the one thing that I sometimes struggle with is including God in everything in my life.  Not only when the times get hard or bad, but also when things are going good and smooth.  I want God to be not just a part of my life, but I want him to be in my life, where I am in constant communication with him dwelling on him frequently.  Ive also learned that this relationship with God is not just a one sided thing but that I must want it also :-).   When we are on fire for the Lord and everything is great nothing can stop us, but as soon as we let the issues and things of this world get the best of us, that fire begins to fade and get smaller.  After the fire has choked out there are ashes that don't allow the flame to reignite, we become cold.  He removes those ashes and stirs that fire in us, and until we rely on God daily with everything, is when that fire will stay burning hot.

Love Just-In

Have you allowed God to remove your ashes?

Awesome Snow Storm

We just got through the "storm of the century" I think we ended up with almost 2 feet, add some wind and below zero temps...yuck.  The church and dream center have been shut down for the past two days and will also be closed tomo.  So we have been snowed in and enjoying some relaxed free time, its been good.  I was watching some YouTube videos and stumbled across a great one that I forgot about, it great.  the sleep walking dog

Looking forward to posting my first sermon on here hope you guys like it.  It should be up by next week, but keep checking back. 

Love you all! 
Thank you all for your continuing support and prayers, It means so much to me!  so thankful to have you all in my life!!

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