You Are A Miracle Blog

Our church building was flooded on April 15, 2019. Our basements flooded and we had about six inches of water on the main floor.  The days since that event have been a rollercoaster of questions, challenges, rays of hope and more challenges. We have learned a lot over these past days and I am sharing some of those insights below. 1) First and foremost, the church is a body of people, not a building.  I have preached this for years, but it was pretty much just theology, now it is reality to us.  Who knows when we will be back in our building, but that does not stop us from being a church.  We need to be God's blessing to others no matter where we meet for services. "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it" 1 Corinthians 12:27. 2) Energy needs direction. We have lots of offers of help but we are not experienced in re-mediating a building after a flood.  We are trying to figure out the best next steps but every potential step forwar...

I recently looked at an alarm clock and realized that it was displaying the incorrect time by about five hours. I quickly discounted the time it was displaying because it was so far from being correct. It struck me that if the alarm clock was off by less time that I might have been fooled into believing it was the correct time, which might have caused me to be late or early to an appointment. Instead, the fact that it was so wrong made it obvious and I relied on another clock rather than that one. In our lives the most dangerous lies are the ones that are partial truth or very close to the truth. It is hard to distinguish which elements of the lie are truth and which elements are a like.  These lies come from within us in our thought processes, and from outside of us as others try to persuade us.  Either way the evil one is trying to get us off track from what is healthy and right for us and for those God has given us. Here are some of the close lies that confuse us - "you...