Tidbits from the life of a Pastoral Care Pastor

Tidbits from the life of a Pastoral Care Pastor
Sunday October 17, 2010
I am sitting at home getting ready to watch my favorite professional sports team play in a Sunday night game on national TV. Go Skins!

This afternoon learned that a close friend had been staying with his grandson at a hospital in Dallas, TX. I knew his little grandson had been sick but not to the extent he needed to travel from Baton Rouge to Dallas and stay with him. My best friend and his wife live in the Dallas suburbs so I placed a call and they show up to show support. The body of Christ in action. We are praying that little Lane pulls through as he certainly is covered in prayer, especially those of a grandpa.
I am still reading from the book, Radical, that I mentioned in my last blog entry. I have read most of it but find myself going back several pages and re-reading. I don’t normally do that…maybe go back and read the book again but not like this time. Consider this statement “Do you know why God created you?” David lays out a two fold purpose…”we were created by God to enjoy His grace. Apart from everything else God created, we were made in his image. We alone have the capacity to enjoy God in intimate relationship with Him.” Also, “He not only created humankind to enjoy His grace in relationship to him, but also to extend his glory to the ends of the earth.” So, if I understand what he is saying we are to enjoy God’s grace and in doing so extend God’s glory to the uttermost parts of the world, after all we are created in His image. The author goes on to say that we live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the Glory of God. In my next blog entry I will further delve into the disconnect that we have.

Books Currently Reading: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

Current Bible Readings / Studies: Just finished studying about the Fall Feasts of Israel.

Devotions: Still currently reading through the bible with a program that chronologically lays out the scriptures in the sequence they occurred or more likely to have occurred.