What a great Thanksgiving day it was...

     So much to be thankful for this year.  At one time, this trip to see our daughter and son-in-law and son in college would have seemed almost impossible or at least a painful one but God is healing me and I was able to drive the whole way to Texas and allow Stephanie to sit and crochet.  It was a great day of meeting up with our son-in-laws parents and family again and again to be face-to-face with people who I know were praying for Stephanie and I.  It was another time to sit down and be asked what God had done through me and also the church during this time.  Our beloved Lions lost the football game but our free-range, no hormone turkey was fantastic!!!  We will venture out today, only for the essentials, but it will be fun to have some time with the boys.


     I have a little extra time this week to look at Malachi 2.  There seems to be two parts to this chapter.  The first deals with corrupt ministry and the second is corrupt marriages.  The outcome of the ministries is curses on what should be blessings and the outcome of the marriages is next generations devaluing them and leading us away from God.  A great quote I came across this week is from G. Campbell Morgan that says,
"The church did the most for the world
when it lived least like the world."

     This will definitely be a message that deals with divorce and the biblical grounds for it and God's attitude toward it.  Bringing out the positive side of doing things God's way will be a must.

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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