2007 August 19- I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Drawing from Mark 6:34-44, I talked about Jesus feeding the 5000+ until they were “satisfied” and our problem with never being satisfied.
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2007 August 12- Accountability Is NOT a Bad Word
Having just completed the “how-to” series about prayer, forgiveness, love, and knowing/doing God’s will, we launched back into the book of Mark which we’ve been following through the year. This week was Mark 6:30-34 when Jesus hears reports from his disciples about the work he sent them to do. This is the morning message for that week.
Woo-Hoo- worship rocked!
The songs were upbeat and peppy. Communion always takes me to a deeper place. James even used a clip from Sex in the City! Can you beat that? And it even tied to message so perfectly. Why can’t we be satisfied in life? Why do we always want more?
Spinning wheels…
Sometimes it seems that no matter how hard I try, whatever I am trying to do does not happen. I had a plan when I got up this morning (late because the basement partially flooded after last night’s rain and in the wee hours of the morning I had to unclog the drain which normally deters the flood- Noah might have liked such a drain but that is for another post). My plan included working on some audio files so they could be uploaded right here for others’ listening pleasure. Immediately upon beginning that work, the phone rang at home to tell me that the air conditioning service person had come to church and was in need of entry to do routine maintenance. Not on my list (or anyone else’s either- we cannot find any record of it being scheduled but again I digress). SO… I am now here in the office working and feeling like what I thought needed to be done isn’t getting done. Well, except now the a/c will work better in our worship center and perhaps people will be more comfortable as they worship together and not be unable to focus because they are too warm. Of course the Israelites struggled to stay focused when in the desert so maybe heat played a part in their not being able to focus and therefore checking the air conditioning is exactly what I am supposed to facilitate today.
I guess the moral of the story is life does not always go as scheduled and that maybe God can use the most inane happenings as a way for his love to be shared. Maybe it is a reminder of our interconnectedness since it was because Saint James’ next door neighbor, Martha, at the district office called and let me know that the a/c guy was here or else I would have missed it entirely thereby not increasing the productivity of the air conditioning unit which in turn might keep others from knowing the love of Jesus. Of course, maybe it was just a crazy day where my plans did not quite go as expected and where God’s love surrounded me anyway.