Midweek Thoughts and Song

Before the Throne of God Above: Charitie Bancroft 1863

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea.
A great high Priest whose Name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me.
My name is graven on His hands,
My name is written on His heart.
I know that while in Heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end of all my sin.
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free.
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me.

Behold Him there the risen Lamb,
My perfect spotless righteousness,
The great unchangeable I AM,
The King of glory and of grace,
One in Himself I cannot die.
My soul is purchased by His blood,
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ my Savior and my God!


This is why i love Hymns! Read this! Do you SEE the GOSPEL?
Sunday we will finish up John 17. Will you join me in reading ahead please?

Jared

LateWeek Thoughts

So this is a little late, but better late than never right? I have been looking forward to preaching John 17 for a while now. Well guess what? We are here. I encourage you to read ahead and be ready for Sunday night! We are going to be covering John 17:1-13. I am praying for you all and i cant wait to be with you Sunday. God is Good! Take comfort in a good God who is in control.
Jared

Joy

Hey errbody,
Hope everyone has had a good week. This week we are going to be in John 16: 16-24. Read ahead and check it out. Tell your friends, bring em all. See you all Sunday.
p.s. Check out the resources on the right side of this page.
Jared

Midweek Thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if any of you heard but this last week we had a big storm. I have heard every kind of name trying to describe it from tornado to hurricane to cyclone. I prefer the name "big storm". We can just settle that now. Tell your friends it was a big storm.
This week i have been thinking about the storm and how big and bad it was. I felt like i was in the movie twister with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton dodging falling tress and driving in yards. Many of us all have the same story with either house damage or tress down in the yard. Some got it worse than others. I mean this was a BIG storm. Think about how powerful that storm was.

Read this section and focus on vs 7.

Psalms 135
Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord,
give praise, O v servants of the Lord,
2 who n stand in the house of the Lord,
in w the courts of the house of our God!
3 Praise the Lord, for x the Lord is good;
sing to his name, y for it is pleasant! [1]
4 For the Lord has z chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel as his a own possession.

5 For I know that b the Lord is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
6 c Whatever the Lord pleases, he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all deeps.
7 d He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,
who e makes lightnings for the rain
and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

God is big and good. The wind and waves WILL come, but we have been given God Himself! He has storehouses with which He keeps the wind. God is BIG!


Jared

music listening to.
Nothing

MT

Hello All,
Hope things have been well and challenging for you so far this week. Sunday night was a great night for the Journey as we had Ryan Britt come and speak. One quick thought on his message: Is there anything that we make ultimate other than Jesus? The sermon was recorded so i encourage you to check that out when it gets posted. This next Sunday we are going to be back in the Gospel of John. If you want to read ahead we will be in John 15:22-16:15.
Also some of you might have heard that Sunday is Mothers day! Get you mom something good and put some thought into it. See you Sunday.

Check out the Renounces over there to the right. You will find some helpful stuff.

"MT" One Day Late

When i was growing up i can remember hearing about "Worldly" things. In John 15:18-27 Jesus talks about the World and that the world hates Him and that the world will hate His followers. Seems like a great way to start a movement right? Just tell your people that if you follow you will be hated and persecuted and the world will be changed. I really don't know why anyone would sign up for that unless this stuff was the real deal. One thing that is so interesting is "Who" it was that Jesus says is the world. During the years of all of our lifespans we have heard that the world is the "Bad" things and "Bad" people. However Jesus defines the "world" as the very moral Pharisee. I really believe that the most worldly of people are some of the millions of people in the pews each Sunday that act as if they are the morality police. I find myself being very worldly yet still maintaining a smile and a seemingly kind word. So this Sunday we are going to talk about the World, and persecution and why this is just the message that God used to change the world. See ya Sunday.
ps Sorry about being one day late.

Music Listening to
Jimmy Eat World

MT And Bible Study Tips

It has been such an honor over the last year, to stand before the people of the Journey and open up the Scriptures. It is my hope that the people of the Journey would KNOW the God of the bible. This week we are going to be in John 15:1-17. Sometime today open your bible and read that text. It is easy to get so dependent on Sundays that they never open their bible through the week. If you are a believer God WILL put in you a desire to read and study the bible. There might be times that opening the scriptures seems difficult, but just remember How Jesus has changed your life. Do you not want to know GOD! The whole bible is about Jesus so have at it. You will not grow in holiness without the study of the Bible.

Here are a few Bible Study Tips

Bible Study Tips
1.Who wrote it?
2.Who was the people group it was written too?
3.What is the purpose of the book?
4.What situations are being addressed?
5.Put yourself there.
6.What was the cultural context?
7.What does the text say?
8.What does the text mean?
9.What implications does the text have for the church?
10.How does this text point to Jesus?


There are many effective ways to study the scriptures. Opening up to a page with no rhyme or reason and just reading 5 verses is not one of them. You can do word studies, topical studies, book or chapter studies (Which I Strongly Recommend). Character studies are cool as well, for instance, the life of Paul. Looking at maps might help as well.

Some Basic Study Resources

1.ESV Home Page http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/
2.Bible Gateway biblegateway.com
3.theresurgence.com
4.Google works for anything.

Here is the link to the video i was talking about Sunday night, Check it out!

Jared