Hello Folks,
I have a had a pretty rough week. I am asking you folks to be praying for me for physical healing for my body. A couple weeks back I fell and it has generated a lot of pain from my neck and through my shoulder to my arm. This pain has almost incapacitated me for the past few days. I did not preach this past Sunday and have not been able to get anything done for about 5 days now. So I ask you to pray that the Lord would give physical healing to my body.
Every year at Christmas my wife and I are privileged to visit with our children up north. This year is no different. Our plans are to go and celebrate the Lord's earthly birth together. We plan on sitting in the living room of my daughter and son-in-law's home with our other children and all of our grandchildren opening gifts and expressing our love to each other. God is very good to me. Here I am 62 years of age and I am allowed to worship the marvelous Savior Jesus and celebrate with my family. There is nothing better than that.
I pray that you will be able to have the same kind of celebration this year. May His grace be on you and may His love be poured into you as you go through this season. I will not be writing anything for a couple of seeks but after the first of the year I plan on being back and getting this blog going again. Our Savior is wonderful and we all should sing praises to Him.
Have a great day,
HGRudd
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Hello Folks,
Our world is in a time of turmoil and tension. In my lifetime it seems that there has never been a time when someone is not declaring doom and destruction for the United States or other parts of the world. While I personally have a tendency to agree that the future is not very rosy for our world I must also remind us that we are not to live life for this world. This world should not bin dour hearts to its dismal outlook because we are children of the King of Kings. He has promised us that while this world will be destroyed, even though no man knows when, His people will have an eternal home that will not be moved by this worlds condition. You and I, if we are followers of Jesus, washed by His blood, made part of His glorious Church, we have a hope that sees beyond the concerns and problems of this world. No matter who the political leaders are, no matter who has great armies and powerful weapons, no matter our country that we live in, God is still our King and we can depend on Him. If we die we go to our eternal home with Him but if we live we serve the Savior who died for us! With that kind of our outlook we can live in a world of tension and turmoil but have peace in our hearts and know that all is well with our King!
May this month of December be filled with Christmas joy for you and your family.
Have a great day,
HGRudd
Our world is in a time of turmoil and tension. In my lifetime it seems that there has never been a time when someone is not declaring doom and destruction for the United States or other parts of the world. While I personally have a tendency to agree that the future is not very rosy for our world I must also remind us that we are not to live life for this world. This world should not bin dour hearts to its dismal outlook because we are children of the King of Kings. He has promised us that while this world will be destroyed, even though no man knows when, His people will have an eternal home that will not be moved by this worlds condition. You and I, if we are followers of Jesus, washed by His blood, made part of His glorious Church, we have a hope that sees beyond the concerns and problems of this world. No matter who the political leaders are, no matter who has great armies and powerful weapons, no matter our country that we live in, God is still our King and we can depend on Him. If we die we go to our eternal home with Him but if we live we serve the Savior who died for us! With that kind of our outlook we can live in a world of tension and turmoil but have peace in our hearts and know that all is well with our King!
May this month of December be filled with Christmas joy for you and your family.
Have a great day,
HGRudd
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Hello Folks,
This past Sunday we had Jon and Karen Lambert, our missionaries from Ecuador, in our services with us. They both shared in our worship and Jon preached a sermon--you can listen to it on our website. It was a very powerful sermon and God spoke to our congregation. I pray that all of us opened our ears to hear what the Spirit had to say to the Church. I wonder if Christian people really want to be used of God or whether we merely want to feel good on Sunday. Is that not the real question all of us have to answer in our own lives? Is this Christian life something that transform us in how we live or is it just one of the things that we do in our lives and of equal importance with all the other things? It would seem to me that those who love Jesus must decide if we are impacted by Him to such an extent that we just cannot sit by idly while the world around us goes to hell.
This morning I received a text message from a brother here in the Church of God at Greeneville. He related to me that he had been able to witness to a man and give him a tract on salvation. This same brother picked up a man who has come to our congregation for help to meet physical needs but had never been in a worship. Well, this brother somehow managed to get him to church this past Sunday. I wonder how that happened? But I wonder even more what would happen if we all attempted to get someone into worship who merely sees the church as a building where they can get their physical needs met but never consider their spiritual needs. Is this at least part of what is meant by seeing our world as being lost and doing all we can to reach them for the Savior.
I pray that your December, the month we celebrate the birth of Christ, will take on a deeper meaning for all of us. This is about far more than merely gifts and dinners. Will we help others to realize it?
Have a great day,
HGRudd
This past Sunday we had Jon and Karen Lambert, our missionaries from Ecuador, in our services with us. They both shared in our worship and Jon preached a sermon--you can listen to it on our website. It was a very powerful sermon and God spoke to our congregation. I pray that all of us opened our ears to hear what the Spirit had to say to the Church. I wonder if Christian people really want to be used of God or whether we merely want to feel good on Sunday. Is that not the real question all of us have to answer in our own lives? Is this Christian life something that transform us in how we live or is it just one of the things that we do in our lives and of equal importance with all the other things? It would seem to me that those who love Jesus must decide if we are impacted by Him to such an extent that we just cannot sit by idly while the world around us goes to hell.
This morning I received a text message from a brother here in the Church of God at Greeneville. He related to me that he had been able to witness to a man and give him a tract on salvation. This same brother picked up a man who has come to our congregation for help to meet physical needs but had never been in a worship. Well, this brother somehow managed to get him to church this past Sunday. I wonder how that happened? But I wonder even more what would happen if we all attempted to get someone into worship who merely sees the church as a building where they can get their physical needs met but never consider their spiritual needs. Is this at least part of what is meant by seeing our world as being lost and doing all we can to reach them for the Savior.
I pray that your December, the month we celebrate the birth of Christ, will take on a deeper meaning for all of us. This is about far more than merely gifts and dinners. Will we help others to realize it?
Have a great day,
HGRudd
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