Take ~5 minutes to read this 'COUGARS Daily' which contains snippets from A Slice of Infinity. Invite your family and friends to participate in reading with you daily. Then, consider sharing your comments or faith questions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
- In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
...But instead, he reminds us that focusing on our union with Christ and our own internalizing of Christ’s qualities helps us to keep the bigger picture in focus and our overall knowledge of Christ most effective...
...Perhaps the place where we can see hope blossom--no matter how dark and distant it may seem--is closer than we think. Looking at the world through the eyes of Scripture, the hope of the gospel, and the presence of the kingdom provides us with corrective lenses through which we can see who Christ is, who we truly are, and indeed, who we can become beside him. Take a look and see for yourself.
Chad's Comments:
I noticed that the writer concentrated on telling me to focus on MY union with Christ and 'MY OWN INTERNALIZING' of Christ's qualities. How am I living out what God has called me to do? Am I being loving to God? Am I obeying his commands? Am I feeding His sheep? Am I serving others with my life?
This coming week is a significant week of service started by (I think) the Southern Baptist convention. Approximately 40 churches in our area have been asked to find families in need and then fill that need. I am sure you can contact your local Baptist Church for service opportunities this week. For those of you in the Colorado Springs area, Vanguard "has selected a military family with some incredible life circumstances. This family has 3 children, 2 of which have cerebral palsy and the other has severe sleep apnea. The husband was injured while in Iraq, where he still is, and is being discharged with a broken back upon his arrival home next month. The home they are living in has some deficiencies that are causing the medical conditions of the children to be aggravated. Vanguard is committed to improving the quality of this family’s life and showing them appreciation for their service to our country. If you or someone you know have time and/or resources to put toward this effort please email me."
This ties to COUGARS very well, I believe, because this is an outreach to an unbelieving family. I am encouraged to get involved and serve them. I believe this is the first among many projects where our company will be jumping on board to serve and enjoin others to serve. I invite you to give of your time next week by letting me know and we'll get you plugged in..early morning to late night. We need people to do insulation, tile, electrical and so on. I am also calling on my friends with landscape companies such as Ben and Brian to go above and beyond the needs of this family and help with their landscape. With a broken back, I'm sure the husband does not look forward to lawn care, so zero maintenance would be an excellent help to them. They live in the 'B street' area so the land would not be all that huge to accommodate.
I would also like to see you get your unbelieving friends and neighbors to help out. I could see relationships being built with organizations through this type of a service project that many times would not be built as there are 'no strings attached'.
* Make Space for unbelievers in your life.
* Post your stories of God's intervention on the blog.
* Look for ways to share Awe and Wonder with children - leave suggestions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
* Consider joining Life-Devotions (a group of about 100 catholics and protestants sharing their faith through daily devotions and discussion - strong pro Life content)
* The Street Church
* Voice of the Martyrs
- In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins. (2 Peter 1:5-9)
...But instead, he reminds us that focusing on our union with Christ and our own internalizing of Christ’s qualities helps us to keep the bigger picture in focus and our overall knowledge of Christ most effective...
...Perhaps the place where we can see hope blossom--no matter how dark and distant it may seem--is closer than we think. Looking at the world through the eyes of Scripture, the hope of the gospel, and the presence of the kingdom provides us with corrective lenses through which we can see who Christ is, who we truly are, and indeed, who we can become beside him. Take a look and see for yourself.
Chad's Comments:
I noticed that the writer concentrated on telling me to focus on MY union with Christ and 'MY OWN INTERNALIZING' of Christ's qualities. How am I living out what God has called me to do? Am I being loving to God? Am I obeying his commands? Am I feeding His sheep? Am I serving others with my life?
This coming week is a significant week of service started by (I think) the Southern Baptist convention. Approximately 40 churches in our area have been asked to find families in need and then fill that need. I am sure you can contact your local Baptist Church for service opportunities this week. For those of you in the Colorado Springs area, Vanguard "has selected a military family with some incredible life circumstances. This family has 3 children, 2 of which have cerebral palsy and the other has severe sleep apnea. The husband was injured while in Iraq, where he still is, and is being discharged with a broken back upon his arrival home next month. The home they are living in has some deficiencies that are causing the medical conditions of the children to be aggravated. Vanguard is committed to improving the quality of this family’s life and showing them appreciation for their service to our country. If you or someone you know have time and/or resources to put toward this effort please email me."
This ties to COUGARS very well, I believe, because this is an outreach to an unbelieving family. I am encouraged to get involved and serve them. I believe this is the first among many projects where our company will be jumping on board to serve and enjoin others to serve. I invite you to give of your time next week by letting me know and we'll get you plugged in..early morning to late night. We need people to do insulation, tile, electrical and so on. I am also calling on my friends with landscape companies such as Ben and Brian to go above and beyond the needs of this family and help with their landscape. With a broken back, I'm sure the husband does not look forward to lawn care, so zero maintenance would be an excellent help to them. They live in the 'B street' area so the land would not be all that huge to accommodate.
I would also like to see you get your unbelieving friends and neighbors to help out. I could see relationships being built with organizations through this type of a service project that many times would not be built as there are 'no strings attached'.
* Make Space for unbelievers in your life.
* Post your stories of God's intervention on the blog.
* Look for ways to share Awe and Wonder with children - leave suggestions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
* Consider joining Life-Devotions (a group of about 100 catholics and protestants sharing their faith through daily devotions and discussion - strong pro Life content)
* The Street Church
* Voice of the Martyrs
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