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Bread of Life

In John 6:35 Jesus says, “I Am the Bread of Life.” He wants to be our source of nourishment and our source of satisfaction. If we are looking anywhere else for our satisfaction we will be greatly disappointed.

How do we feed on the Bread of Life? How do we eat this Bread that Jesus claims to be? Here are some very practical ways to draw life from this Bread.

I encourage you to take some time and talk to Him. Take some time with Bible open and Listen to Him.And as you listen, you will believe.Your believing will produce doing.And as you’re doing, you will naturally share the bread with others.And as you share the bread you will want to talk to Jesus about it.

Jesus is indeed the true Bread from Heaven. Let Him nourish and satisfy you today.

The Two Most Important Questions

There are two questions that every person must answer and how we answer these two determine everything about this life and the life to come. So, what are the questions? The first most important question is this: “Who do you say that Jesus is?” And the second is like it: “How will you live based on your answer to number one?”

So, who do you say Jesus is? Many people have many different opinions. In fact if you just randomly interviewed people on the street, some would say a good teacher, a prophet, a great philosopher, a religious leader or some must even say, who?

But the question is, who do you say Jesus is? In the gospel of John 8:58 Jesus makes an interesting statement. In a discussion of the religious leaders of his day, they were having a big debate about their father Abraham. They were claiming that they didn’t believe Jesus because they followed Abraham. Jesus then made the statement that before Abraham was I AM. After he said that the Pharisees picked up stones and wanted to kill him. Why did they want to stone him for saying I AM? It’s because he was claiming to be God. He was claiming the name of God used by God himself in Exodus chapter 3.

According to Jesus, He thought He was God. Now we have a choice. Will we agree with Him or not. If we agree that Jesus is God then how will we live our life based on that answer.

You know you live in the country when...

This past week I taught the Bible lesson at our community Vacation Bible School. It was a lot of fun as I got to spend time with some great kids. I had a lot of neat experiences, but one that typifies our area stood out. I was teaching the parable Jesus taught on the sower who sowed his seed and the ability for the seed to grow depended on the type of soil.

I was out on the sidewalk and was using the concrete as an example of the hard soil where nothing could grow. The kids understood and we were having a lot of fun. So, we all agreed that the seed on the concrete would not grow and we also agreed that if we left it there it would be gone by morning. I asked them what would happen to it - who would take it?

I had four groups and every group's first response was the same. They didn't say a bird would eat it or a squirrel or some reasonable animal like that. No. When asked what would take the seed, every group said a bear would come and take it.

We have quite a few bear in our area and the bear probably have messed with these kids' bird feeders so I guess it made sense that a bear would take the seed. I'm not even sure if Jesus saw that one coming. He thought a bird would take it. :-)

Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

How will you manage your MONEY?

We continue our week considering the graduating seniors of 2010. As you know you are embarking on the years ahead when you will make the 4 biggest decisions of your life. They are: Who will be your Master? Who will be your Mate? What will be your Major? And How will you manage your money?

The final of the four decisions the young graduate will make is how will you handle your money? Well, you might first say, “That’s easy, I don’t have any.” But I am not talking about just how you do with the money you have, but rather how will you perceive money. Will you serve money or will it be a tool that you will use to accomplish the purposes God has called you to. Will you learn to tithe your income? Will you be a generous giver? Will you be a saver? Or will you spend like a crazy person and go into foolish debt?

These are the decisions and habits that face the graduate. This is the time to grab hold of God’s wisdom on finances. If you get a good start on Biblical principles on money, you can live your entire life free from the slavery that can come with things.

It’s been a joy to be with you this week. Once again, a huge congratulations to all you graduates out there. As you make godly choices, you will face an awesome future.

What will be your Major?

Those of you who are finishing high school – Congratulations!!! We continue our talks on the four most important decisions of your life. They are: Who will be your Master? Who will be your Mate? What will be your Major? And How will you manage your money?

Today, I want to focus on your Major. Now, first of all I am not talking about just what you will be your major in college. I am talking about making your career choice. For some young people that includes college, but there are, of course, other paths to take also.

Why is it important to choose a good career path? Well, consider this. You will work for about 40 years. That is nearly 80,000 hours. Think of a lousy summer job you have had. Those jobs where a 6 hour shift is difficult. Imagine doing that for over 80,000 hours. Wow!

God has wired each of us up differently. He has given us unique giftings, talents and passions. Choose your career path, your major based on His calling on your life, based on His wisdom. He created you and He knows your future better than anyone else. So, choose wisely. And seek God for His wisdom.