Coming to the Still Waters

What Is the Biblical Definition of Worship?

     Health-wise I am feeling good.  Actually a couple of days ago, while working at our cleaning job, I actually forgot what had been done to me throughout the last year.  Even if it was just for a moment, it was good to feel normal again.  I still am stiff when I get up and it takes a little to get me going but once in motion I have nothing to complain.  God is continuing to heal my body.      I am continuing through Paul Tripp's book " What Did You Expect?? "  Under the chapter called "Pulling Weeds" Paul gives us some big weeds that need to be pulled out of any garden or out of any marriage.  How about selfishness, busyness, inattention, self-righteousness, fear, and laziness.  So many times we focus on the biggies like finances and feelings and not dig deeper to look at yourself and not the other person.  Here are some more great quotes. "It is not enough to identify the weeds in your relationship that need...

     One of my highlights this Sunday was Sunday School.  Our normal teacher was sick so I jumped in to cover for the class.  Looking again at the material I see it was about forgiveness and I had just read chapters on confession and forgiveness in Paul Tripp's book " What Did You Expect?? "  Talk about the Lord preparing me ahead of time for the class.  Here are a couple quotes that helped me that I could draw upon. "Healthy marriages are healthy because the people in those marriages find joy in canceling debts.  I cannot think of a more essential ingredient in marriage than forgiveness." "Because the patterns of sin and failure were not accompanied by patterns of confession and forgiveness; what was left was the compilation of the wrongs of the other." "Often, forgiveness is a process, not an event." "The biblical call to confession and forgiveness is to be followed only in instances when one spouse has done something to the othe...