We Believe In Jesus MULTI COLORED AFROS It seems like believing in Jesus is a pretty straight forward thing. I remember watching the Super Bowl as a kid and seeing a guy with a multi-colored afro wig. He had a sign that said, “Jesus Saves.” and, “John 3:16.” I remember feeling thrilled that there was a reference to Jesus on TV at the Super Bowl. A few years ago, I
Who Lives In Us and Through us, and Fills us with Wonder WONDER FILLED We have been created with a complexity and creativity that makes us wonder about the creator. We too, have the ability to create wonderful things, some of which make people wonder about us. We have this line in our creed because we want to affirm that we are both wonderful and wonder filled. ON BEING WONDERFUL
Who Lives In Us and Through us, and fills us with Wonder SOMETIMES IT WORKS A few years back I had the great opportunity to coach 5th and 6th grade basketball. It was one of the best growing experiences of my life. I got to watch, as my team came together and put into action, the plan I had tried to instill in them. Sometimes it all fell apart and
Who Lives In Us, and Through us DON’T LET GO OF THE ROPE God has come along way. At one time the Hebrew’s believed that a High Priest was needed to communicate with God. It probably began with Moses going up onto Mt. Sinai to meet with God on behalf of the Isrealites. Later when they wandered in the desert for 40 years, a large box called the Ark of
The Believes in Us, Trusts us, and Empowers Us GIFTING THE CALLED My good friend, Rich Melheim, often says, “God often gifts the called, rather than only calling the gifted.” In my brief time as a pastor, I have found this to be true. I have seen people who may not have been an obvious choice, find that in taking on a new challenge, rise to the occasion and become
GOD TRUSTS US??? We affirm in this creed that not only are we are to trust God, but that God trusts us. I can’t imagine what it would take for God to put the future of Christianity into the hands of the believers. Even more, there is plenty of evidence that we have let God down in being ambassadors to the world on God’s behalf. Jesus did promise us that
Who believes in us, trusts us and empowers us. CREEDS It could be said that a creed is a statement of what we believe. In all the major creeds of the church we confess what we believe about God. In this creed, we also wanted to affirm that God believes in us. By affirming that God believes in us, we are in fact saying that God’s original plan or dream
Who’s Love is the Life Force of the Universe. WHAT WE NEED I sometimes wish I had become a scientist. I have always been fascinated with the complexity of human biology, though I didn’t do well in my Biology 101 class at Carthage College. Probably because it was an Eight O’clock class in my freshman year. I read the other day that our bodies have around 37.2 trillion cells.
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We believe in God, the creator, Who’s Love is the life force of the Universe THE BLUEPRINT To quote Phyllis Diller, “If you are what you eat…I am going to eat a thin person.” In John’s Gospel, Jesus says, “God is Love.” It is not just what God does but who God is. I believe that God’s love is the very essence not just of God but of