April snow showers brings what?...

     It is kind of hard to believe what I see outside right now.  We have a good 2 inches of snow on the ground, new snow.  With the wind blowing, it feels like a cold November day instead of April 17th.  I guess we will push spring back another week or two.  I keep getting one more armload of wood from the pole barn.  That one round of golf with Jason last week was truly a blessing with the sight that is outside now.


     One person can have an impact on so many.  Last week, one conversation opened up for a group of 16 people coming to church this Sunday.  One positive conversation about her church brought 16 people to make a decision on where they would be on Sunday morning.  I pray that God would give us the courage to speak positively about our church to our neighbors and friend and family.  People are primed by the Holy Spirit to say yes to your invitation.  That Holy Spirit is already at work in their lives and your part should bring you humbly before God that you could be used by Him.  The biggest Sunday of the year is coming up and we have the opportunity to fill God's churches to the limit.


     This Sunday will take us to 1 Peter 3:8-22, and probably focusing the most on verses 18-22.  I love verse 18, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,"  Christ suffered for us, the unrighteous, to bring us to God.  I can see how this passage will work just fine for Resurrection Sunday.


Adam
A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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