faithful men?

Proverbs 20:6
      Many a man proclaim his own steadfast love,
      but a faithful man who can find?

      Ladies, don't just listen to the poetic serenades of your significant other look at the characteristics of his past. If the guy hasn't been faithful in the past with other women and in his job and in other responsibilities he is not gonna be faithful to you as a husband or to your children as a father. People do make mistakes and change is possible so tell him you need to see that before you commit to a relationship, if he does love you he will honor and respect that. Remember you aren't just making this decision for yourself but also your kids.

Foolish Anger

Proverbs 19:3 

     When a man's folly brings his way to ruin,

     his heart rages against the LORD.

  Pride is the root of all sin and anger can be kindled against an undeserving source when our pride is attacked. We all know someone who blames God for their life problems or circumstances when clearly they have made some unwise decisions that have put them in the position they are in. It is easy to sit back looking from the outside in on their situation and point out their spots of error, but how often do we do this same thing on a daily basis? Maybe its a time crunch at the end of a day of work and you find yourself venting at God because you want to get home and yet fail to see the time that you wasted at the beginning of the day. Or it could be an unpleasant grade that you got on a test at school and you find yourself frustrated because right before the test you prayed for God to help you do well even though you forgot to study the night before. Not all ruin is because of foolishness (i.e. Job) but many times before we say "why did you bring this situation to me God?" we need to evaluate what we may have, or not have, done that got us into the position where we find ourself.   

Life!

Praise God! He has been at work in trmendous ways over the last couple years. Since my last post I have started a relationship, graduated college and seminary, got married, moved, and now am expecting our first child in a few short months. Yeah you can say that I've grown up a lot over the last couple years but enough about me.

Lately God has been teaching me about the community/ fellowship/ life of a church. The part of the church that is a living and moving organism that cares for, builds up, loves on, and supports itself. Obviously God is the one that ultimately unites us and holds us together. In similar fashion to your own body God ultimately holds the billions of cells together yet he has given this flesh to us to be stewards of maintaining and taking care of that which he has givien. As the church we must give attention to our body. I'm excited to see evidences of growth in this area in the church in America. Over the last hundred or so years the church has been losing sight of this aspect of church being eclipsed by the desire for accurate theology. Correct doctrine must be in a church but correct doctrine should then lead us to correct action if it does not then it must not be correct doctrine. I love theology and am an introvert, left to myself I would love to sit in a room with books and resources learning and growing in my theology, but that is not what God had in mind for the church. As a partaker in the universal and a local fellowship of believers I must be both a giver and a reciever. Using my gifts and abilities and letting others use their gifts and abilities for the God's glory, our joy, and others good. People desire life. God is life. God is in us. People should see life in us.