GREENE STREET LETTERS: Rolling Like Nobody's Bit-ness !

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Rolling Like Nobody's Bit-ness !

I'm off to see the Wizard!!!
This is day # 1 of my "Stay-cation".
If you will...extend some forgiveness my way this coming week.
I may or may not be posting here on the Greene Street Letters, due to being lazy.
Actually lazy won't be a part of next week...it will just be a different breed of work. Work around the house...Thanksgiving...ect...ect...
Looking forward to it though.
Vicki and I haven't taken a vacation this year so we are going to shut down for a bit.

Spoke at Celebrate Recovery at the Gathering last night. It was their first CR in their new location (Formerly 1st Presbyterian Church Downtown Gadsden). Good group of folks and I predict good things for this CR.

I saw a lot of familiar faces last night. Some I had not seen in a long time.
The Elrod's..Robbie, Irene and Carrie, along with Carrie's boy friend..Jeremiah. Or as I like to refer to him..Grizzly Adams...
Jeremiah is a neat fellow. He's a kind of "What you see is what you get" type of guy.
The Elrod's use came to the Vineyard while I was still pastor there,and we spent a great deal of time ministering and helping people. They still burn with a desire to extend the Kingdom of God. As a friend of mine likes to say...."They's Good folk."

James Crain, Taylor Morris and Mark Alexander---The Three Musketeers...(not he candy bar). All three should be dead..but God had different plans. Now they are active and sharing their recovery with others still out there in the darkness of addiction.

Becky Vineyard--- Always good to see her. She makes me laugh...
She is kind of a "Super-ball in a concrete room" person. Full of life...full of God..full of love. I love to watch her worship...she goes full tilt.

Steve Brewster heads up CR at the Gathering.
The man loves God and is grateful for this period of time in his life. He is a GOD-chaser, and it shows. If you're looking for a great meeting to go to...then check out Celebrate Recovery at THE GATHERING...Friday nights..supper at 5:30 p.m. and main meeting at 6:30 p.m. Small groups follow after the main meeting.

Well, I think I'll go have my 2nd cup of coffee...and maybe even a 3rd.

God on you.....
mb

p.s.
We will be having service at Rapha tonight...

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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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Rolling Like Nobody's Bit-ness !

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD