There has been a transformation going on...

So a couple pictures to show the physical transformation going on in our lives but also so much more thankful for the spiritual transformation in our lives, the lives of others, and the church in general.  Our service last Sunday was as full of the Spirit as I have seen in awhile.  I remember Sunday night services at the little Turner Free Methodist Church where the 80 strong would belt out hymns in a building built for 120 maybe max and it would rock.  You could hardly hear the piano!!!  Now to see that kind of participation in this era with people just as excited about the Gospel and seeing His kingdom come and His will be done.  My heart was full of joy and I look forward to this Sunday.

We are handling the kingdom parables of Matthew 13 and this Sunday we will tackle 2 of them.  The first is the parable of the sower when Jesus tells His disciples that 3 out of 4 will hear the Gospel but either reject it, go with it until they feel resistance, or go with it as an add on in life with the other things of life choking it out.  Only 1 out of 4 will really take hold.  Then He tells the parable of the weeds and that we are to live among the weeds until the end when He sends the reapers and they are not us.  We are to continue to sow even as the world gets farther from God.  Now He gives the disciples some hope with the parables of the mustard seed and leaven.  I remember the old Gospel song "Little is much when God is in it" that is the parable of the mustard seed and a new song "From the inside out" is the parable of the leaven.

So here are the pictures.  The first is about 3 years old.  Pretty telling.


Here are some recent pictures of us.



God has been so good to us.  --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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