Plant your Feet Firmly, Pt. 1

I'm sorry about the major lag time between posts. I've been finding that Bible study takes up my blogging time, but since I don't have school today, I thought that I would take the time to do something about the lag.


Recently, Pastor Higgins preached a sermon on how we are to stand up for and evangelize our faith. As a general rule, I don't share and evangelize nearly as much as I need to because I don't appreciate others making fun of me for my faith in Christ (major pride issue for me!!). However, as I started to think about what he (SKH) had said, I started to think "Why am I not defending my king? So many of us will stand up and rant at others when they bash on our favorite sports team (movie, band, etc.), but as soon as there is an opportunity to defend our faith, a lot of people (me included) will most of the time just not say anything to avoid altercations with others. The matter at hand is not that we don't care enough of our faith to defend it (most of the time), but that we are too afraid of having our pride injured to say anything that might get us ridiculed by others.

The only thing that I can think of to remedy this is to put aside our pride and take a stand on the faith in God, and take a moment to set our priorities straight. If we don't defend our Lord and Savior, how are we any different than the rest of the world that Christ wants us to be set apart from? What distinction do we give our faith if we stand back and do nothing when we could be witnessing to someone? Think: God will make provisison for the salvation of those that He wants to save. What if you are that provision for just one person? If you stand back and say nothing when someone is doing something that is against God's moral law, if you are one of the chances that person was allotted, that person may be losing an opportunity for salvation.

It may not be their only opportunity, but we have been commanded
to take the gospel to all men. How are we honoring the Great Commission if we don't do or say anything that gives evidence of our saving faith in the One True God?

A song that I believe goes along with this post is DC Talk's What if I Stumble.

Think about it. Later days.

God's Faithfulness

Today, our message was about how God will be faithful to bless those who are faithful to praise Him. This was a great lesson about how our lives will be better with Christ's praise on our lips. When we are stagnant in our appreciation of Him, we are temporarily "out of touch" with God. He waits only for us to pray for forgiveness and we are "back in the loop". The Lord's faithfulness is what protects us from sin, Satan, and eternal death. The amazing thing is that He, the perfect Lord, would protect us even though we, as sinners, have fallen short of His perfect glory. He loved us enough to send His son to be crucified, and though our sins are forgiven because of Christ's death, He wishes that you would repent and have faith in Him, and then, and only then, can we truly be in fellowship with Him. If we do not give our lives over to Him, we will have to spend eternity apart from Him in the lake of fire after we die. Then there will be no more chances at faithful repentance. If we repent and have faith in God, we will spend eternity with Him in heaven. I strongly urge any non-Christians reading this to accept Christ as their Savior and repent of your sins. He is waiting for you.

Two songs that might go well with this are Todd Agnew's "Grace Like Rain" and Jars of Clay's "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet".

Revision

From now on, when I post, I will state my message, then, if possible, a song that I think goes along with my post and a quote. If I am successful, I think that you and I will both benefit. Thank you

First Post

My first post, and enjoying it mucho! I hope that you people reading this enjoy it. To any Abbotts reading this, I salute you!

This warm honey feels good on my face. -Me

You look more like a Keebler elf than a Lorien elf. -Josh K.

I want to blow more stuff up! -Jacob H.

You're a polywomanist! -Ben H.

You're the smallest. That gives us bigger guys the right to "haze" you. -Josh B.