This week has been busy, busy, busy. It would seem logical to assume that after a busy day, a person would go to bed and sleep restfully for at least 6 hours. But that doesn't seem to happen to me. I might sleep 3-4 hours and then I'm wide awake!
It's at these early hours that I do my most profound 'thinking'. In anticipating an upcoming trip to see our children this weekend, I happened to think about an e-mail the son-in-law sent the other night about his favorite Bible scripture...Acts 4:20.
"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard".
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Considering all I've seen and heard this week at VBS, I cannot but speak. My job has been a crew leader of 6 children. These same children have been in my group all week. Basically, what I do is just listen. If you know children at all, you know they love to talk and share. I (along with 15-20 other crew leaders) have heard some of the most heart-rending stories from many of these children...burdens they carry about illnesses in the family, broken relationships within the family, death. You would be astonished to know how often these little ones think about 'death'....everything from death of a pet to death of mom or dad or grandparents.
It's at these early hours that I do my most profound 'thinking'. In anticipating an upcoming trip to see our children this weekend, I happened to think about an e-mail the son-in-law sent the other night about his favorite Bible scripture...Acts 4:20.
"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard".
♫
Considering all I've seen and heard this week at VBS, I cannot but speak. My job has been a crew leader of 6 children. These same children have been in my group all week. Basically, what I do is just listen. If you know children at all, you know they love to talk and share. I (along with 15-20 other crew leaders) have heard some of the most heart-rending stories from many of these children...burdens they carry about illnesses in the family, broken relationships within the family, death. You would be astonished to know how often these little ones think about 'death'....everything from death of a pet to death of mom or dad or grandparents.
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My Little Crew!
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It is God's mandate to us, as Christian leaders, to show and teach the little ones the hope in a life
of following Jesus. Without hope of a better life, what is left for them?
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"But Peter and John answered and said unto them,
Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken
unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Acts 4:19-20, King James Version
Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken
unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Acts 4:19-20, King James Version
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We can't contain what we've experienced in Jesus.
We can't help but tell about what we've heard.
No ruler, no threat, has been able to completely stop the
voice of God from being heard through his people's witness.
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Sharing our faith happens out of the overflow of our experiences
in Christ and our relationship with Christ.
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When we share our faith in this way, the authenticity of our
witness can be rejected or ridiculed, but it can't be erased.
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We have experienced God's work in our lives.
How dare we keep silent?
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We can't!
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Phil Ware
Today's Verse
Devotionals
We can't contain what we've experienced in Jesus.
We can't help but tell about what we've heard.
No ruler, no threat, has been able to completely stop the
voice of God from being heard through his people's witness.
♫
Sharing our faith happens out of the overflow of our experiences
in Christ and our relationship with Christ.
♫
When we share our faith in this way, the authenticity of our
witness can be rejected or ridiculed, but it can't be erased.
♫
We have experienced God's work in our lives.
How dare we keep silent?
♫
We can't!
♫
Phil Ware
Today's Verse
Devotionals
6 comments:
You little crew rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, MikeM!
My little crew did 'rock'! We had a great time this week and I made 6 new little friends that I didn't have last week!
J, you rock! I cannot believe it's over????
That was a great post. How did you get those little music notes in there? HOW? HOW? HOW? I've got to know!
DD...It's all in the KEYBOARD! alt/keys 1 and 4.
Great post...
and I'm so happy you were able to give Dorky Dad an answer...
isn't he so cute!
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