Starting this week Day Seven Church will be merging with Summitview Community Church of Loveland. Day Seven will now be meeting with Summitview on Sunday mornings at Mountain View High School (3500 Mountain Lion Drive, Loveland, CO) at 9:30am. We are looking forward to building God's kingdom together in Loveland with Summitview Community Church.
For more information on Summitview Community Church of Loveland check out www.summitviewcc.com and their "Think It Through Blog" at thinkingitthru.blogspot.com.
It has been an awesome 7.5 years of walking with God at His church called Day Seven. But as always, we need to be constantly asking, "God, what's next? What do You have for us today?" And at this time, we feel this is God's answer and His timing. Walking with God is NEVER boring and is always an adventure! We are looking forward to the adventure ahead.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Fruit Bearers
John 15:1-8
God's expectation for us is that we would bear fruit, good fruit, for Him. But in order to do that we have to stay connected to the Gardner and to the Vine.
Have you connected with the Gardner and the Vine yet today?
God's expectation for us is that we would bear fruit, good fruit, for Him. But in order to do that we have to stay connected to the Gardner and to the Vine.
Have you connected with the Gardner and the Vine yet today?
Thursday, August 20, 2009
5,943 Days
As I read Ephesians 5:1-21 this morning the following thoughts rattled around in my head:
I started to walk in God's light on May 13, 1993 - the day I accepted Christ and gave my life to Him. In other words that was my second birthday - the day I was reborn (see John 3:1-21). Now I must admit, that at the time, I didn't fully understand what that meant and I am still learning the depth of what it looks like day by day. In relation to Ephesians 5, what that means for me is that for the first 10,736 days of my life I lived in darkness and yet at the time I didn't even know it was darkness - it was just my normal - it was comfortable or so it seemed - it made sense to me, at least most of the time.
But when Christ came into my life then everything changed because the darkness had been exposed for what it was - darkness. It was only when the light of Christ exposed the darkness that I could understand just how dark it really was. And since that moment I have been given the gift of light, and by the gift of the Spirit, I can choose to walk in the light and to see and experience things as they really are. And yet at times, I can still choose to walk in darkness but no longer does it seem normal, no longer does it seem comfortable and no longer does it make sense. For me learning to walk in the light is a process even though I have been given everything by God to walk perfectly in the light right now. But I fall so short of perfection in a BIG way and so I thank God for His grace and His forgiveness.
I thank God for the last 5,943 days since I was "reborn." I am looking forward to Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - that is the day on which I will have lived half of my life in the darkness and half in the light. I will be 58 years, 9 months and 13 days old then. I wonder if I'll be around then? I wonder what God's plans are for my life between now and then? I guess I'll find out!
Are you walking in the light according to Ephesians 5?
(day and date calculations by http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html)
I started to walk in God's light on May 13, 1993 - the day I accepted Christ and gave my life to Him. In other words that was my second birthday - the day I was reborn (see John 3:1-21). Now I must admit, that at the time, I didn't fully understand what that meant and I am still learning the depth of what it looks like day by day. In relation to Ephesians 5, what that means for me is that for the first 10,736 days of my life I lived in darkness and yet at the time I didn't even know it was darkness - it was just my normal - it was comfortable or so it seemed - it made sense to me, at least most of the time.
But when Christ came into my life then everything changed because the darkness had been exposed for what it was - darkness. It was only when the light of Christ exposed the darkness that I could understand just how dark it really was. And since that moment I have been given the gift of light, and by the gift of the Spirit, I can choose to walk in the light and to see and experience things as they really are. And yet at times, I can still choose to walk in darkness but no longer does it seem normal, no longer does it seem comfortable and no longer does it make sense. For me learning to walk in the light is a process even though I have been given everything by God to walk perfectly in the light right now. But I fall so short of perfection in a BIG way and so I thank God for His grace and His forgiveness.
I thank God for the last 5,943 days since I was "reborn." I am looking forward to Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - that is the day on which I will have lived half of my life in the darkness and half in the light. I will be 58 years, 9 months and 13 days old then. I wonder if I'll be around then? I wonder what God's plans are for my life between now and then? I guess I'll find out!
Are you walking in the light according to Ephesians 5?
(day and date calculations by http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sin is Sinful
The phrase "sin might become utterly sinful" in Romans 7:13 caught my attention this morning. As I read that, this was my thought:
That I have to understand the devastation of sin in my life. That until I am appalled at the devastating effects of sin in my life - the utter destruction that sin brings into my own life and into the lives of those that are around me, that I will be content to have sin in my life.
That's a part of what the Law was and is all about. I come to understand that sin is wrong only by understanding what is right according to God. And ultimately it's only when I understand what effect my sin had on God and His Son, Jesus Christ - that my (and your) sin killed Christ - that I have to accept the grace and forgiveness that God gives to me because there is nothing else I can do in and of myself to be reconciled with God.
But if I think that sin, my sin, is no big deal then I do not see my desperate need for Christ - my Savior. May I never lose sight of the fact that my sin (past, present and future) is sinful.
God thank you for that reminder this morning.
That I have to understand the devastation of sin in my life. That until I am appalled at the devastating effects of sin in my life - the utter destruction that sin brings into my own life and into the lives of those that are around me, that I will be content to have sin in my life.
That's a part of what the Law was and is all about. I come to understand that sin is wrong only by understanding what is right according to God. And ultimately it's only when I understand what effect my sin had on God and His Son, Jesus Christ - that my (and your) sin killed Christ - that I have to accept the grace and forgiveness that God gives to me because there is nothing else I can do in and of myself to be reconciled with God.
But if I think that sin, my sin, is no big deal then I do not see my desperate need for Christ - my Savior. May I never lose sight of the fact that my sin (past, present and future) is sinful.
God thank you for that reminder this morning.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone for coming out to the picnic last night. It was good to come together as a family and to hang out with everyone - and for all of the awesome food!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
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