Posts from August 2022
AUGUST 31, 2022
Dear Friends, Tonight was a big night for us at Redeemer. Twenty-seven kids were loved on, poured into and prayed for as we kicked off our very first evening of Awana. There were fun and games. There were group times where they learned about the verses they will be memorizing. By the end of the evening, everyone headed hope excited about what God has planned for these precious children this year. And maybe, Lord willing, more like them in the weeks ahead. I think what…
AUGUST 24, 2022
Dear Friends, Which have you spent more time doing this week: Grumbling? Or giving thanks? Let’s be honest. We are people who easily become accustomed to and take for granted the blessings that we enjoy in life every day. In fact, it doesn’t take long before a recuring blessing in our lives becomes an expectation, a requirement or a demand. Some of you are too young to know this, but back in the 1960’s, if you needed to open the driver’s side window…
AUGUST 17, 2022
Dear Friends, This weekend, Jimmy and Loraine Mosby will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They have known each other since they were in grade school, but didn’t start to date until the late 1960’s, when they were both enrolled at Arkansas Baptist College. They began their life together as husband and wife just weeks after Loraine graduated from Philander Smith College in the spring of 1972. Looking back on their five decades of marriage, Loraine says “any couple who has a healthy marriage and…
AUGUST 10, 2022
Dear Friends, Obedience brings blessing. Is that true? In your life? Or to put it another way, have you ever found that sometimes, obedience can lead to adversity? Think for a minute when God called Abram to leave his home, his family and all he knew, and to go to an unknown place. A land, God told him, “that I will show you.” Abram responded with faith. He obeyed God. When God called Abram out of Haran, he packed up his wife and his…
August 2, 2022
Dear Friends, You know you’re an apostle, right? I didn’t say Apostle. I said apostle. The punctuation matters here. As I read the New Testament, I see Jesus regularly sending out those who follow him. He sends them into cities and villages to share the good news of the Kingdom. And of course, the last thing he tells us is that we are to “go.” Go and make disciples. The word apostle means “sent one.” All who follow Jesus are sent. So using my old high…