(December 7, 2009)

Prayer House News!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! It happens every year - it's just that we hope the first snow won't happen as soon as it does each year. Oh well, it will make for a good Family Week.

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Christmas Caroling is happening this Wednesday. Meet us at the church for a great time of singing and ministering.

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The Unshakable Kingdom
Developing Good Habits

The first message in this series dealt with “Abiding Fellowship,” the Second message dealt with the “Unshakable Word of God,” the Third message was called, “I have prayed for you,” which challenged us to trust in God’s love for us.
Today I want to talk about developing good habits. This may not sound very spiritual but I think by the time we are done today your thoughts will be confirmed. It probably won’t be very spiritual.

Hebrews 12:25-29 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? (26) At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." (27) The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken-that is, created things-so that what cannot be shaken may remain. (28) Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29for our "God is a consuming fire."

This series was inspired by what I perceive to be problems not only in our church but in the church at large as well. We just seem to be having trouble actually living out the Christian life. According to what we just read, as Christians, we are to be attached to an unshakable kingdom and yet it seems that many who profess Christianity have been shaken loose from this kingdom. So the question needs to be asked, “What is going on?” “Why has it become so difficult for Christians to actually live like Christians?”

It would seem that part of the problem is that many of us have not fully entered in to the fullness of the Kingdom of God. And many times, that which keeps us from fully entering in are the habits of our lives that prohibit us from becoming all that God wants us to be.

continued tomorrow

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Medication: A Merry Heart

Basically Useless Trivia

Smokey the Bear has his own zip code. It's 20252.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a "frog."

The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.

The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.

Sir Isaac Newton was born the same year Galileo died.

In an early draft of Star Wars, the character of Luke Skywalker was called Luke Starkiller.

Of the 17,000 poems Emily Dickenson wrote, only seven were published during her lifetime.

Stalin loved Tarzan movies.

President James Monroe spent the last 50 years of his life with a bullet in his shoulder.

Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books.

The Sun is at least 94% hydrogen.

The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is seven hours and 10 minutes.

More redheads are born in Scotland than other part of the world.

"Shambles" used to mean "slaughterhouse."

The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

Bill Gates gets four million e-mails each day, but only about 10 make it to his in-box because of his anti-spam software.

The white part if your fingernail is called the "lunia."

Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic (I thought he spoke King James).

Eighty percent of migraine sufferers are female.