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200 Chairs

March 29, 2009 By

chair1jpegI’ve been thinking about a gift we received last week. NewDay was given over 200 chairs to use for our ministry. A place to sit and belong. Right now we have about fifty people who have felt God’s call to be here. Who are the rest of the chairs for?

I look around my neighborhood and see faces of people who I have talked to. Some of them know our Jesus and his great love for us. Many do not. Is one of those chairs for them? How about the people I talk to each week at the HyVee, the YMCA, and in our local coffee shops? Where can they find a people who will listen, care and help them discover the purpose of their life?

I am thankful we have 200 chairs. But I’m more interested in people who will fill them.

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Where is your focus for today?

March 18, 2009 By

This morning I read this and asked God… “Who do you want me to walk alongside today?”

Luke 15:1 Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!
3 So Jesus told them this story: 4 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. 6 When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!

Who is God calling you to walk alongside today?

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