Day of Praise

Tu, 07/29/14, "Day of Praise"

John 14:2-3 - "[Jesus said,] 'My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."

I'm glad it's easier to get in God's house than it is my own.

Last night I got home from a meeting after Caden, my 15 year old son, had gone to bed, which is quite early because of his six a.m. morning workouts with the high school football team. Additionally, since both my daughters have varying schedules with their commitment to summer mission work, I arrived home without a key, a garage door opener, or a phone charger, which is important since my phone was on the "red-your battery's-unable-to-make-calls" signal.

So the challenge was how to get in my house when my son sleeps like a big ol' bear who's in the middle of winter hibernation. I rang the doorbell three thousand times. Seriously! And he didn't wake up. I beat on the door two thousand times. Seriously! And he didn't wake up. I pulled hundreds of seed pods off my crepe myrtle tree-bushes and threw them at his bedroom window.
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson