Sharing 101

1. Everything you have comes from God.
2. Everything that is given to you is given in trust to you.
3. The blessings you have are not just for your own personal benefit.
4. What is given to you is given to you that you may share with others.
5. Sharing with others blesses them and you.

Speaking Carefully

When I want to speak let me first think:
- Is it true?
- Is it kind?
- Is it helpful?
- Is it ncessary?
If not, let it go unspoken.

Calendar Thought

The best form of spiritual exercise is to touch the floor regularly with your knees.

Missional Living

Missional living is the adoption of the posture, thinking, behaviors, and practices of a missionary in order to engage others with the gospel message.

Listen and Be Reminded

This is my Father's world.
And to my listening ears,
All nature sings and round me rings,
The music of the spheres.
M.D. Babcock

The Pic of Christianity

Shine - Oldie But A Goodie

God's Power In Us

"We must have His life in us by the Spirit if we are to do His work and practice His teaching."
"After all, the power is in the Spirit of Christ. It is not who we are, but Who He is that makes the difference."
Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism

Serve

"Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily." - From Our Daily Bread, 7-18-13.

Opportunities for being a servant of Jesus Christ "surround us daily". So true. May we understand and practice this thought in our homes, occupation, friendships, neighborhood, church, civic clubs, and in other places we frequent such as the local stores we visit daily or weekly.

Just yesterday I heard two beautiful stories that lived out the above quote and it spurred me on in God's Kingdom. You will never hear of these people and their stories and how their servant hearts and actions boosted the Kingdom of God. Today, others may never hear of or see the servant action you practice towards others, yet it is vital that we live as servants of the powerful God we worship. You never know what God will do with the "little ones that surround us daily."

Tommy Speight - Leadership

Created Words

Over the past several years myself and others in Horizon Community Church have placed together words that express our ethos and beliefs. Below are the words with a brief definition.

Anticipraytion: [an-tis-uh-prey-shuhn]
1. the act of praying with anticipation.

2. realization in advance; foretaste.

3. praying in and with expectation or hope.

4. praying and anticipating the answer.

Creavolution: [cre-a-voe-loo-shuhn]
1. believing in creation(macro) and evolution(micro).
2. God created it all.
3. life changes and morphs.
4. In the beginning... God.

Godcidence: [koh-in-si-duhns] 

1. a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance, but believing and understanding that God is in control.

2. when seeking after God things fall together in a crazy sort of way.

3. a God instance of this.

 

Faithilistic: /ˌriəˈlɪstɪk/ Show Spelled[faith-uh-lis-tik] 

1. interested in, concerned with, or based on a life of faith and how it is fleshed out in the physical and spiritual world. 

2. pertaining to living by fiath. 

3. resembling or simulating life lived in faith.

 

Feartastic: [feer-tas-tik]

1. experiencng a little fear as you move into something great and fantastic. 

2. in spite of being apprehensive one is fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions.

3. imaginary and beautiful; not being based on reality; moving forward in life and with God in spite of fear.
4. overcoming fear to live in the faithilistic realm.

Growth

Storms produce growth. - John Owen

The Symbol For Christianity

Yet.. See Verse 21

¹⁹ I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
²⁰ I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
²¹ Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:

²² Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
²³ They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
²⁴ I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
²⁶ it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentation 3:19-26

HCC Mission Weekend 2012

Christmas In July - God, the child in a manger.

I know God only through Jesus Christ. The unique grandeur of Christianity is its belief in a poor God, like a wound in the absolute. God, the child in a manger. No man could invent that; it requires revelation. - Jean Sullivan, Morning Light

Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-12

Hope

Lamentation 3:19-24

 

Reading From 7-9-13

Uncommon Life - Daily Challenge, Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker

Talents

Use what talents you have; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke