Mothers Day is upon us. Don’t forget your mom. She has earned her crown(s), if she chooses to accept them, by giving you birth and allowing Him to use you in His plan, that is if you let Him. Just a thought.
PRaP 5/9/08
“Mothers 2008″
Let me be the first to wish all you mothers a happy mothers day 2008. All though your role with God is the same as it always was you have more to do than ever. Believe me when I say I understand how hard you work. Being a single parent myself and a man to boot I had to learn all of those gifts that you were blessed with by God. To multi-task is a huge thing and you gals have it to a science. Us guys take the things of the day and lay them out into single problems and solve them one at a time but God has given you the wonderful ability to take the day’s problems and lump them into one issue and take care of all of them in one swoop throughout the day. You have the ability to map out your day in your mind and know that as you are doing one thing you can simultaneously take care of the other that is similar to the other to where us guys would take them as separate issues and try and figure out on paper how to solve each one individually. Hats off to you mom for the great job that you do every day including weekends and holidays without a day off and without complaint, thanks mom. We pray the Spirit of peace upon you on your special day. May the blessings of God continue to pour out into your lives. Proclaim for yourself an Esther year of preparation for the coming of the Groom, Jesus Christ.
Key Verse:
Esther 2:12
Before a girl’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.
Esther 2:11-13 (in Context) Esther 2 (Whole Chapter)
Week 19 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
Send your questions to us if you need help. There is a link on our web site called “Ask The Pastor”. We will answer all questions live on our weekly Ask The Pastor program on Saturday nights from 8-10 PM and if you want an emailed reply be sure to include your email address. Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked. All names are kept confidential unless you say it is ok.
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
c2C http://www.c2cministry.org
Got Jesus?
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
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Let’s chew on this. We make our life what it is in this short time we have here on this rock we call Earth. Is your life a living hell by choice? Just a thought.
PRaP 5/8/08
“Hell on Earth”
Ever have one of those moments that you think that God is showing you what hell for you will be like when you leave this shell? On my morning walk I joined a couple of coworkers, you know safety in numbers kind of thing, but as we were walking one of them mentioned a two hour lunch he had to attend yesterday and I told him that was a blessing and the other coworker said depends on who you are having that lunch with so I asked him to elaborate. Well he said it would not be so good if it were with such n such, well knowing this person I could see how it could likely get, lets just say old very quickly. He said yeah a lunch with such n such would be my personal hell on earth and I asked him if maybe God was putting this thorn in his side for a reason. He laughed and said it is just his own hell on earth and nothing more. Of course being at work the subject quickly changed from God to the latest montage that was going to review today. Oh well just thought I would share that. Maybe God is giving you a taste of what it will be like for you if your walk with Christ doesn’t change. Oh wait you say you don’t have a relationship with Jesus? Well this is your life, hell on earth. Maybe God is showing your eternity if you don’t come to Christ?
Key Verse:
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:27-29 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter)
Week 19 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
Send your questions to us if you need help. There is a link on our web site called “Ask The Pastor”. We will answer all questions live on our weekly Ask The Pastor program on Saturday nights from 8-10 PM and if you want an emailed reply be sure to include your email address. Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked. All names are kept confidential unless you say it is ok.
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
c2C http://www.c2cministry.org
Got Jesus?
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
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What standards do you live by? Maybe you live by the “World” standard? How’s that going for you? Is it everything you ever wanted? Or maybe it is leaving you empty. I mean once you take that last breath what’s going to happen? Is it over? Oh wait your not going to die because you have the money and the power and all the technology so you have immortality, right? Or maybe you’re just missing the point? Just a thought.
PRaP 5/7/08
“Raise The Bar”
Time to raise the bar of our faith. I know that most of you reading this are teens and young adults or are teens at heart like me. We say we are Christian but many do not live it. We say we walk with Christ yet we walk right into a place that God is not there. We say we wear the clothes of Christ yet we neglect to put on our armor of God in the morning and we put on the clothes of a prostitute. We say we resemble our creator yet we cover our faces with paint and makeup so that we look different. We say we want to be authentic men for Christ yet we treat our women with total disrespect and sometimes violence. Sorry but Jesus would never do that. In one moment we are speaking the Truth of Christ and in the next cussing like Jesus wasn’t ever there. We say we want to live like Jesus and then we pick up a cigarette or take a pill or put other things in our body to distort it. At one moment we are drunk on the Holy Spirit and then defile it with alcohol. You say you want to be more like Christ and you read His Word and then you pick up pornography. Jesus doesn’t just want your heart on Sunday. No, He wants it every day. It is time to raise the bar of our faith and truly walk the walk and talk the talk. Time to raise the bar so that when we speak as one voice people will listen instead of demeaning and ridiculing our faith. You want real faith and you want real church then show me! Don’t tell me you’re a Christian and then go get drunk. Don’t tell me you’re a Christian as you stick that fag in your mouth and light it. Don’t tell me you’re a Christian and then begin foul speech. Pick up your cross and carry it. Show everyone around you that you are “REAL” in your faith. Let me hear and see your faith. I double dog dare ya!
Key Verse:
Matthew 24:10
At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Matthew 24:9-11 (in Context) Matthew 24 (Whole Chapter)
Week 19 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
Send your questions to us if you need help. There is a link on our web site called “Ask The Pastor”. We will answer all questions live on our weekly Ask The Pastor program on Saturday nights from 8-10 PM and if you want an emailed reply be sure to include your email address. Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked. All names are kept confidential unless you say it is ok.
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
c2C http://www.c2cministry.org
Got Jesus?
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
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What is the price? How much can you afford? Really the question is what are you willing to pay? Just a thought.
PRaP 5/6/08
“The Cost of Following Jesus”
I was reading Luke 9 this morning and came across these verses 57-62 and am intrigued by them. Let’s read them:
57As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
58Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
59He said to another man, “Follow me.”
But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
60Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.”
62Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
So following Jesus is likely to cost me my home in which I feel comfort and safety and I am to put Him first over the burial of my own father and I can’t look back once I make the decision to follow Jesus. That’s harsh dude! Jesus is telling us that we are going to go through hard times once we become followers of Him. Wait the preachers all preach of this rosy existence once we become saved, what’s up with that? All this peace, joy, and love we have when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, now why would Jesus tell us in His Word that it is going to be difficult? The Bible says that followers of Jesus will be persecuted and hated because of Him but He also tells us to remember that they hated Him first. There is joy in pain when you see the big picture. When you know that Jesus is with you and that whatever pain you are enduring because of Him, He endured more for you than you will ever endure for Him. Why have Jesus as Lord and Savior? Because this life is only a blink of an eye and your eternity is there waiting for you. Think outside of the box and look ahead say 500,000 years and decide where you want to be. The only way that you can see that far into the distance is to have a relationship with Christ. Pick up your cross and follow.
Key Verse:
Luke 9:41
“O unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
Luke 9:40-42 (in Context) Luke 9 (Whole Chapter)
Week 19 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
Send your questions to us if you need help. There is a link on our web site called “Ask The Pastor”. We will answer all questions live on our weekly Ask The Pastor program on Saturday nights from 8-10 PM and if you want an emailed reply be sure to include your email address. Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked. All names are kept confidential unless you say it is ok.
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
c2C http://www.c2cministry.org
Got Jesus?
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
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Do you feel alone even in a crowd? I can be in a room with hundreds of people and still feel alone. Happened to me yesterday. Until I saw God’s plan and who He placed in front of me. Even when there is no one in the room we are never alone because God is always there. Maybe it is His plan for you to wait because He is going to set someone with you that needs to hear His word. Just a thought.
PRaP 5/5/08
“So God May Have Mercy”
As I was reading this morning I came across something very interesting in Romans 11:32:
For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Another place that shows that none of us are perfect and not only that we cannot be perfect. For in our make up we are inherently evil for lack of a better word, so that God can give us His Mercy. Now that is something to chew on today. No matter how hard we try it is futile. We will fail if we try to make it on our own. God has made us to where we have no choice but to go to Him if we want to be successful in this short life. It doesn’t say some it says “ALL” men are bound to disobedience so He may give them His mercy. We all know who this Mercy is right? You say you don’t know? His name is Jesus Christ, “the” Mercy of God. If you don’t know Him read John 3:16-21. Note worthy here also is that not all people will come to repentance and receive God’s mercy but God does have in place a way for all men to come and receive. Kind of sad actually because the gift is free. God doesn’t ask for anything in return because there is no way that you could repay Him for His gift. This passage in context is titled “All Israel Will Be Saved” and it speaks about Jew and Gentile alike. The Jews hearts are hardened until the full number of Gentiles has come in. See there is other scripture that verifies this in John 10:16:
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
I challenge you to read that in context as well, read John 10:14-18 Jesus was speaking to the Jewish leaders letting them know that they weren’t the only ones getting the opportunity to be in heaven eternally with God.
Key Verse:
Romans 11:11
[ Ingrafted Branches ] Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
Romans 11:10-12 (in Context) Romans 11 (Whole Chapter)
Week 19 for those of you doing the Bible in 52 weeks program, http://www.c2cministry.org/Bible
Send your questions to us if you need help. There is a link on our web site called “Ask The Pastor”. We will answer all questions live on our weekly Ask The Pastor program on Saturday nights from 8-10 PM and if you want an emailed reply be sure to include your email address. Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked. All names are kept confidential unless you say it is ok.
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
c2C http://www.c2cministry.org
Got Jesus?
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Help us fulfill our wish list www.c2cministry.org/wishlist.html
