This is a very touching story of a man who’s car was stolen. In it he had several items. One in particular that he is giving a reward for. He has his priorities straight. How about you?

Please read it.
Car theft victim: I want my Bible back!

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I found this and thought I would post this here. It is of utmost importance to our reading of Sacred Scripture. May it help in our understanding of who we are and most importantly Who God is. To God be the glory.

There are two ways to read the Bible. The one way to read the Bible is that it’s basically about you: what you have to do in order to be right with God, in which case you’ll never have a sure and certain hope, because you’ll always know you’re not quite living up. You’ll never be sure about that future. Or you can read it as all about Jesus. Every single thing is not about what you must do in order to make yourself right with God, but what he has done to make you absolutely right with God. And Jesus Christ is saying, “Unless you can read the Bible right, unless you can understand salvation by grace, you’ll never have a sure and certain hope. But once you understand it’s all about me, Jesus Christ, then you can know that you have peace. You can know that you have this future guaranteed, and you can face anything.”
Tim Keller

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Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009

This guy know some good tricks. Notice that at first he fails, but he doesn’t let that stop him. God gave this guy skills.

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If our greatest need had been information,

God would have send us an educator.

If our greatest need had been technology,

God would have sent us a scientist,

If our greatest need had been money,

God would have sent us an economist.

If our greatest need had been pleasure,

God would have sent us an entertainer.

But our greatest need was forgiveness,

so God sent us a Savior!

                                   -Charles R. Swindoll, The Grace Awakening

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A certain man wanted to sell his house in Haiti for $2000. Another man wanted to buy it, but because he was poor, he couldn’t afford the full price. After much bargaining, the owner agreed to sell the house for half the original price with just one stipulation: he would retain ownership of one small nail protruding from just over the door.

After several years, the original owner wanted the house back, buthe new owner was unwilling to sell. So the first owner went out, found the carcass of a dead dog, and hung it from the single nail he still owned. Soon the house became unlivable, and the family was forced to sell the house to the owner of the nail.

The moral of the parable is, “If we leave the devil with even one small peg in our life, he will return to hang his rotting garbage on it, making it unfit for Christ’s habitation.”

-Leadership, Spring 1983

Something for all of us to think about.

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I take great comfort and strength from this passage of scripture and I hope it does the same for you.

Romans 8:31-39 NLT

“What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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“How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
… Your hair is like a flock of goats…
Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes…
Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
Your temples are like a slice of pomegranate…

“…Your neck is like the tower of David
built with rows of stones
on which are hung a thousand shields…
… Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle
which feed among the lilies…

“… Your lips, my bride, drip honey,
Honey and milk are under your tongue…
And the fragrance of your garments
is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Your belly is like a heap of wheat…
“… Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
which faces towards Damascus…”

From Song of Solomon chapters 4 and 7

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dies at the young age of 50. I kept watching the footage yesterday simply because it was on every channel. Earlier I heard that Farrah had passed away. I heard the host of the radio show say, “Maybe we should watch less T.V. because we don’t know when it’s our last day.” He is right. We should really think about eternity every day. God knows the number of our days. People the fact is they are numbered. So we should live every day being a blessing to others, just as we have been blessed by God.

I learned of MJ’s passing when I got a text from my sister telling me he died. I had heard earlier in the day on the radio that TMZ had reported that Michael Jackson had been transported to the hospital due to heart problems. When you see people interviewed everyone was shocked. One girl said that she thought it’s Michael Jackson, he’s super human. It can’t happen to him. This culture obviously doesn’t read the Bible. The book of James tells us that life is like a vapor, that we are here one moment and then gone the next. We read in the New Testament where the sacred scriptures tell us that it’s appointed for us to die and then the judgment.

Folks I have news for you… we are all going to die. Every beat of our hearts is like a drum beat leading us closer to the day we beat our last. I think that people believe we will live forever. One day it will all be over. The death rate is still one per person, and we are all going to make it. Death should not surprise us because it is a fact of life and a consequence of the fall. It is these times that remind us all of all of our mortalities. No one is invincible and no one can cheat death.

I saw a guy being interviewed say of Michael Jackson, “I hope he’s in a better place.” That statement didn’t sound too hopeful. But I tell you this, that those that trust in Jesus, can know that they have eternal life. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Well, do you believe this?

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I am surprised by how our normal tendancy is to share Christianity as a set of morals that if we practice we shall be saved. Let us look to the scripture for what we need to share, lift up and proclaim to the world.

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Cor. 1:18)

Never forget to share the cross, which is the only means of displaying God’s mighty power to save. So go forth and preach the cross of Christ. It worked for Paul, its good enough for me. (1 Cor. 1:21-2:2)

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The three of us Pastors of Gateway are going through a book that Steve and I have mentioned here on the blog before. It’s by Michael Horton, host of the the radio program The Whitehorse Inn. The book is Christless Christianity, and is a must for everyone that is serious about their Christian Faith, and the Gospel of the living God.

I wanted to share this with you because it is soooo good.

 It’s important to point out that law and gospel do not simply refer to the Ten Commandments and John 3:16, respectively. Everything in the Bible that reveals God’s moral expectations is law and everything in the Bible that reveals God’s saving purposes and acts is gospel. Not everything in God’s Word is gospel; there are a lot of exhortations, commands, and imperatives. They are to be followed. However, they are not the gospel. Not everything that we need is gospel. We also need to be directed. We need to know God’s commands so we will come clean, acknowledge our sins, and flee to Christ and also so they can direct us in grateful obedience. When it come to doing something, we are answering the law (works); when it comes to believing what has been done for us by Christ, we are answering the gospel (faith). Confused with faith as the means of inheriting God’s gift, our “good works” become the most offensive sins against God. But when faith alone receives the gift, it immediately begins to yield the fruit of righteousness. When even good, holy, and proper things become confused with the gospel, it is only a matter of time before we end up with Christless Christianity: a story about us instead of a story about the Triune God that sweeps us into the unfolding drama.

Please partake and enjoy.

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