GREENE STREET LETTERS: Get On The Bible Bus...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Get On The Bible Bus...

I consider myself to be a simple man.

My study of the Word of God is simple and I hold no insights other than what God has shown me through the Holy Spirit.

Some people now days don't hold with studying the Word of God.

They read it sporadically.
One verse here, one verse there.
A chapter here, a chapter there.

Skipping from book to book without ever seeing how the Word of God is one continuous thread with a message of salvation from the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation.

I write this to let you know that Through The Bible Radio Program, with Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is

starting back in Genesis week after next.

Dr. McGee goes through the entire Bible, teaching it line by line, verse by verse over a period of five years.

They have just recently finished up a five year study and are beginning to start over again.

If you would like to join in and begin a study with Through the Bible, then you may do so by

following this link below.
Click on the link/ then click on "all ministries"...

look for THROUGH THE BIBLE and click on it.
You will be directed to a place where you can download and listen to the current teaching.

http://www.oneplace.com/

While I don't agree with everything Dr. McGee teaches, he is thought provoking and causes me to seriously take a look at what I do believe, and the reason for my belief.

Some of you will be put off by Dr. McGee's accent (North Texas Twang), but rest assured if you listen long enough, that voice will become a comfort. A close friend.

Many have turned away from the study of the Word of God to chase experiences.
While I am truly blessed to be in services where the presence of God is so thick you could cut it with a knife, such times will never take the place of intimate times with God's Holy Word.

Old fashioned?
Probably.

But I make no excuses for my love of God's Word.

I pray that you would fall in love with it and that it becomes sole and center of your life as God speaks to you through His Word.

God on you....

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Get On The Bible Bus...

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