E-News from McLane Church
Hey E-News Friends,
I’m just sitting here cranking out some thank you cards to some volunteer heroes in our church who willingly and cheerfully give of their time and gifts to serve Jesus Christ and his people each and every week. There are so many devoted servants around our church that fit that description that I could spend hours every week writing cards. If you’re one of those volunteer heroes just know that I’m thanking God for you at this moment.
I want to put a shout out about the new series we’re kicking off this weekend. You don’t want to miss worship this weekend and not because I’m going to be helping the parking team (that might be cause for skipping). We’re launching a new 5-week series on the Old Testament book of Proverbs called “TRACTION”. It’s all about leveraging the amazing and timeless wisdom from this Holy Spirit inspired document from antiquity to help us get “traction” and develop real momentum as we move forward into 2010. Just as there are many steps that we all take each winter to insure that our vehicles have proper traction, Proverbs provides us with the wisdom, the “rubber meets the road” practical principles, that help us all stay out of the proverbial ditch and on God’s path toward true life and righteousness. This is a book filled with really practical, take-it-to-the-bank principles that relate to so many areas of daily life. We’ll be exploring God’s perspective on money, the power of our words, sexual temptation, personal discipline and more. As we move through this series we’re going to find that orienting our lives around God’s wisdom is like living life in four-wheel drive, living with real momentum.
I’m going to challenge you with an assignment over the next month. First, read one chapter from Proverbs everyday and you will have completed the book by the time we finish the series. Second, make a decision to take Solomon’s advice and approach this series with the following attitude as is recorded in Proverbs 2:1-5 :
Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life. Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding. That's right—if you make Insight your priority, and won't take no for an answer, searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt, Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-God will be yours; you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God. (The Message)What do you say? Are you ready to do some 4-wheeling?
Bill
What was in your stocking this past Christmas? This week's picture reveals one of the items I found in mine. Wow! Once you turn 40, opening your stocking at Christmas just doesn't have the same sense of wonder and excitement. Oh well, maybe you fared a little better. Even with my wife's concern for my digestive track we enjoyed a wonderful Christmas. I thoroughly enjoyed being in my PJ's on December 27th and trust you did as well. There is a good reason why God designed all of us to experience Sabbath and rest as a regular rhythm in our lives. It's part of the pathway of experiencing life at it's deepest levels, the life that Jesus desires that we all experience.