GREENE STREET LETTERS: BRIAN ROBINSON

Saturday, June 25, 2022

BRIAN ROBINSON

Take a long look at this face in the photo above. Pretty much summed up my friend, Brian Robinson. He seemed to always be walking in the joy of the Lord. You could not help but be lifted out of any depression or gloom when Brian came around.

There were three things that were most important in Brian's life. #1 - His Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.......#2 - His family.........#3 - Music. It was through the music that I first met Brian when he came to VCF Gadsden to lead worship. I was playing in a praise band at that time, and we agreed to back Brian as he led worship. The one song that I remember most (and always brings a smile to my face) is the song Alright Now by Bad Company. Brian had taken the lyrics and re-wrote them to reflect the goodness and love that Christ has for us. I can still remember playing bass that day....totally worshiping and loving this song....thinking to myself, "Who is this guy?" Over the years I would come to know who "this guy" was.

Brian always seemed to have "a word" for people. He was really good at picking up on the state of people's lives, and then giving them what God was saying to Him. He did that for me more times than I can remember. As the years rolled by, our paths took different directions and we did not see each other as much as we may have wanted to. But Brian was faithful to call from time to time and share a word that he felt God was going to speak to me. I was grateful for those phone calls, and I was grateful that Brian took the time out of his schedule to call me.

I received the news yesterday that Brian had passed. He'd been in bad health for a while, but with Brian you always felt that he would bounce back. That God would bring healing to his body and restore him. Well, God was true to His word. Brian received the ultimate healing......he went home to be with his Savior. Brian is no longer struggling or hurting. I can only imagine how Brian was when he first stood before Christ. I can just see him jumping, leaping about, and singing at the top of his lungs. That is Brian.

If you would, please pray for Faith, his wife, and the family that God would comfort them during this time of separation. I will miss Brian. I know that you've read this before, because I usually write it whenever a friend passes, but with Brian it takes on a little more significance.

"Brian now knows the truth that you and I have not yet experienced." That the word of God is true, and God is faithful to see His work and word to completion.

I will miss you Brian....

michael b.

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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

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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, June 25, 2022

BRIAN ROBINSON

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