A Sermon

As a youth pastor one of the things I was "trained" to do was listen too and break down sermons. The reason behind this is simple. If I can break down the sermon it had a flowing point. One that the audience could understand and learn from. The other, and more important reason is to see if the sermon talked about the power of Jesus on the cross, his death, burial, and resurrection over Satan sin and death. If a sermon doesn't have that it's a bog pile of crap. It may be well worded and pretty but it's still junk.

I listen to alot of sermons. In fact if the radio in my car is on that's what's playing. They range from guys I went to school with to local pastors and a few mega church pastors. What I have found is that the sermon may be good (or even horrible) but if it doesn't mention what Jesus did is it worth it?



To God Be The Glory!

When It Seems Like Sin Wins

When a death occurs it seems as if death has one. We fight and fight to live but death is going to happen.

When someone we know dies it feels not just like a emotional and physical loss but an overall loss as well. Death, or sin, looks as if it's won.

However death shows us sin up close and personal. It shows us that we can try to defeat sin all we want but in the end we will always lose.

At the cross we see the defeat of sin. The one thing we couldn't do ourself Jesus does for us. Death allows us to see Jesus more clearly. We will always lose, Jesus always wins.

The Job And The Call

Many people have jobs and everyone has some type of call. However few have the luck of combining those two things into one.

The job is the thing we do to pay the bills we go to work almost only for this purpose. It is not that we hate our jobs but they do not really feel that need for change that we need.

Then there is the call. The call is that something we love to do. If we have free time we want to do "that thing". We get great joy out of our call and in many cases would do it for free even if offered to be compensated.

So what's your call? Have you let your job get in the way of your call?

Test of the app

I just downloaded the blogger app which should, if it works write make it easy to start posting again on virb. It would ne better if Virb made an app bit it looks like they have given up.

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