It was such a waste! All that perfume, just poured out, and it was expensive enough that a lot of useful things could have been done with the money obtained by selling it-lots of help for the poor, etc.

Jesus didn’t see it that way. Because it was an act of worship. (See Mark 14:3-9)

“Worship the wrong things and nothing else will come out quite ( Read more... )

Having checked all over my settings and not finding a way to make posts show up in the order they were posted, when you click on a tag (or category, for that matter), I’m putting links in this post, in the right order, for all the posts/notes I made on The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel. (But as I said often enough-it’s great reading, if you can ( Read more... )

from Psalm 71

WORSHIP:

• You are my retreat,
• a guest room with wide open spaces.
• You are my vast, granite fortress,
• where I am free from the grip and the clutch of “Wicked” and “Bully”.
• You’ve been my bedrock since childhood,

Something I’ve discovered about living in a home with stone floors: they are hard on your feet! So now I’m in the process of  finding some good, thick, foam slippers to wear.

But yeah, hi! I’m actually posting, wow! Reading over 10 years worth of blogging certainly shuts one up. It’s made me feel like “that” person was totally different than the ( Read more... )

WORSHIP:

Praise you Lord, that we only need to call on You, and our enemies vanish; and you fill us with laughter and song! Not only “us”, but all heaven sings out, cheering you on, clearing the way for you, riding on the clouds! For you are the caring Father of Orphans, and the Champion of Widows! You give homes to the homeless, and lead prisoners ( Read more... )

My sermon words this week: “Remember=worship=joy”. The context is the Israelites complaining in the desert, and the title was “I’m sick of this!” They had just been rescued from slavery, for heaven’s sake-only a few days beforehand. Like the little boy the pastor mentioned, who was having a meltdown in Disneyland and said to his dad “Why did you ( Read more... )

Rather than let my One Word “sit” and expect it to “percolate” or something, I’ve decided that I actually have to DO something with it. So after some thinking over, what I’m going to do is post either a sentence or a photo about it/using it. (That’s Facebook, so if you want to find me there, look for crazycathie.) The hashtag will be #thread and # ( Read more... )

Well, just when I said I was “shutting up”, there are some sermon notes that just need to be made!

We’re starting a new sermon series entitled “Desert Transformation”, which promises to be a good one. (Although it reminds me of the Pilgrim series our Interim Pastor in Toronto started with.) The first sermon was about “Setting Out for the Desert”.

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My One Word is supposed to take the place of New Year’s Resolutions, but it doesn’t really work that way for me. It’s almost like more of a game, for me.

However, every new year, and every new season, there are always things that I resolve without really trying-almost like a habit. They usually have to do with being fit, or rearranging the routine ( Read more... )

WORSHIP:

“God-you’re my God! I can’t get enough of you! I’ve worked up such hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts. So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength and glory. In your generous love I am really living at last! My lips brim praises like fountains. I bless you every time I take a ( Read more... )