Tomorrow is chemo day, round three...

     Sunday I couldn't contain myself and had to run around the pulpit, I was so full of joy over the energy that God has given me over the last week.  I'm still wearing diapers and packed with gauze that is changed every day but my head is clear.  I hate to think that will change again for a little while when I enter that infusion clinic tomorrow morning.  So today is a free day and I have taken advantage of it and a clear mind to hammer out my sermon on a Monday!!!


     We go into 2 John this Sunday.  It looks like a one Sunday sermon to cover the 13 verses in this book.  The topic will be speaking the truth in love.  What is the value of truth?  What is the value of love?  We will mesh these together as the Scripture does.  You can't have one without the other.  


     If there is something that has come out of this time, there are many, but one is that I definitely study more than ever before.  I listen to so many more sermons, just for the joy of it.  Here is a nugget from one of them this week.  Top five answers to how to rationalize sin.
5.  Just this once - I can handle it.
4.  No one will know.
3.  Everybody else is doing it.
2.  Can't be wrong - it feels so right.
1.  God will forgive me - I can have my cake and eat it too.


Detecting and destroying the rationalizations that lead to sin is the first step in confession and repentance and restitution.  


Good stuff.


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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  1. Joshua TaylorOctober 10, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    Glad to hear that you're feeling joy! :) Praying for you Adam!

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  2. Pastor AdamOctober 11, 2011 at 7:00 AM

    Thanks Joshua...Stephanie and I have been praying for you along with your parents. God is good.

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