The Cave

This past week the Southern Baptist Convention made some big news in its overwhelming support for the Great Commission Resurgence.  I believe this is an excellent step for our convention and one that has been needed for several years.  I praise God for men who were willing to step up to the plate and lead in this direction, but now the question is will we “the SBC” follow their lead?

Along that line of thinking, I think Thom Rainer has some sound words of wisdom for all of the SBC. I hope we pay attention.  Check out his words here:  A Personal Great Commission Resurgence.

I will leave you with a quote from his article:

I do hope and pray that the Southern Baptist Convention will experience a Great Commission Resurgence.  But before I start judging the deficiencies of anyone else, I realize that there is still much work to be done in me. I am often sinfully busy looking at the speck in the eyes of others without seeing the log in my own eye.

Please Lord, send a Great Commission Resurgence.

But Lord, I know where some of the greatest work needs to be done.

So, please, let the resurgence begin in me.

Michaela’s softball team played in a tournament and took 2nd place!  Great job Lady Bears!

Kenzie’s top front teeth have been loose for awhile and tonight I was able to pull both out.  She has been on cloud nine!  Here are a few pics…

In light of our church’s continued study of Revelation, I thought this was appropriate. . .

Baptist Press–Beyond the Ark

The last 2 weeks our family has been busy with swim meets once again.  All our girls are doing really well.  Yesterday, Kylie swam in her first meet.  She swam the short breaststroke.  She was doing great and was keeping up with all the big girls until about the mid way point, then she took a couple breaks, but she still finished and did a great job.  Here is a video of it, and then there is a video of Kenna swimming the Individual Medley.  She did a great job finishing  4th in the 8 and under age group.  Not too bad for a 5 yr old!

Recently I was reading a few of A.W. Tozer’s sermons, and I came across some good words of wisdom regarding discouragement.  In this sermon he shares what he calls rules for the time of discouragement.  I found these helpful and thought I would share them:

1.  Do not accept the judgment of your own heart about the matter.  A discouraged heart will always go astray, so don’t think about yourself the way you feel about yourself.

2.  Make no important decisions while you are discouraged.  Never say yes or no to anything while you are discouraged.  Don’t resign your job.  Don’t sell your property.  Get down before God and get straightened out.  Ask God to roll the clouds away and take the defeat out of your spirit, and the reverses out of your heart.

3.  Remember failure doesn’t make you any less dear to God.  I am so glad God does not look at our bank balance to know how much to love us.  The fact that you have failed in some way in life does not affect God’s love for you at all.  Neither does it affect His promises.

4.  Go to the Bible and read the promises of God.  Read the promises until your heart begins to leap with joy of the promises.  Remember that the living God is everything.  Not success, not victory–but God.  Not winning, not losing–but God.  My victory cannot enrich God and my defeat cannot impoverish God.

Michaela’s softball team got their first victory tonight.  Michaela pitched the entire game and struck out 10 batters.  Very proud of her and all the girls!