Don't be stingy!

This one will be short. I believe being stingy is a sin.  Being a good steward is a blessing.We've been blessed to much not share willingly with others. My favorite quote right now came from a customer last week. " Money is like manure it's not worth anything unless you spread it" . I can't add much to that.

Be blessed,
Russ.

Just like Jesus

I find myself at a cross road in Christian walk. As I write this, the words "all things new" keep popping in my head. It seems that all the things surrounding church. At least my perception of church has changed. The old stability I had in a church is gone. Maybe this is happening because so much of what I engaged in was about me and what I liked. Sometimes I think I engaged "church" more than I engaged God. So maybe God wants to make this thing called church new in my life. I have found myself wanting more than anything to study Jesus. We hear so much, " be like Jesus" or hear it in the song "give me your eyes". I want my life to matter. I want to feel God's pleasure in the things I do. I want people to see Jesus through me. I want to encounter God as in the day of Act's. The world is dying around me and I just want to able to bless those I can bless as I navigate this life God has blessed me with. I see church moving, flowing, changing as quickly as the world changes around us. I see a church that gives more than it takes. I see a church that pours out during the week more than it takes on a Sunday morning. I see a church that completely trusts God and His word in all it's forms, even when we don't completely understand what He is saying and doing. I see a church that believes that God is bigger than our mistakes and Rom.8:28, works to the good of those who love Him and are called by his name". I see a church that focuses on the problem solver and not the problem. Give me Jesus A friend sent me this link, it is exactly where I am in my walk right now. I hope it works. If it doesn't check out All Sons and Daughters, Reason to Sing. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y56nxe5HeFI God bless who ever stumbles across this.