Great Sermons...

Seriously, this summer has been filled with Great Messages from COTH...It's like one after another!!!

All started with "Kevoding"

Last Sunday Scott was ON POINT and then THIS SUNDAY TOO! ((By "on point" I mean, HS and I had JUST wrestled with that topic not even 48 hours before!)) It used to freak me out, but now it makes sense, Eph 4 -- if we have the same Spirit, the same Bible then we have the same "Teachers" =)

Podcast the series "Feed Your Faith" a study on Peter's Epistles.

Last Week =
BECAUSE Jesus paid for my life...
1. Rejoice
2. Be Holy
3. Love Deeply from the Heart
((all through knowledge and wisdom of the Word))

This Week =
God/Jesus/The Bible is not only "good for me" but it's "good"

Just in a happy place right now...

This is SSSOOOO how I feel right now!!!

EVEN WHEN
Seven Places
((click -- free streaming of WHOLE song))

This week, I prayed, one time
My phone, it rang, I put You on the other line
And now my thoughts they drift around
My knees remain unacquainted with the ground
Unless my faith is put to the test and I am forced to bow
Although I'm in this flesh it doesn't mean You shouldn't have the best
from me, from me

[Chorus:]
Even when my eyes are dry
even when my soul is tired
even when my hands are heavy, I will lift them up to You
It's not about how I feel, oh Lord I am here for You (oh)
I exist for You

I close my eyes but all I see
Is a background of black, bouncy squiggly lines
And this week's mistakes coming back to mind but
I will lift my voice and make a joyful sound
Forget about me, I only get me down
Although I cannot see it doesn't mean I shouldn't sing to You, to You

[Chorus:]
Even when my eyes are dry
even when my soul is tired
even when my hands are heavy, I will lift them up to You
It's not about how I feel, oh Lord I am here for You (oh)
I exist for You

You've given me Your life and have held mine together yet I find
Excuses to slouch in my pew
But when glory divine
Is sitting in my very presence, the least that I can do
Is give my all to You, give my all to You, oh

[Chorus:]
Even when my eyes are dry
(even when my soul is tired)
even when my hands are heavy, I will lift them up to You
It's not about how I feel, oh Lord I am here for You (oh)
I exist for You

Even when my eyes are dry, even when my soul is so tired
I won't leave my hands down by my side, I'll lift them up to You
It's not about how I feel, oh Lord I am here for You (oh)
'Cause You are here for me
This is what I was made to do (oh)

(I exist for you)

Timing...

SO... I am a lot of things... but of the nine, Patience seems to be one of the fruits that I have yet to FULLY cultivate in my life.

I am moving again (craziness that doesn't need to be repeated) but all in all -- looking at it as a new opportunity to see God's goodness and it doesn't seem that bad =) It's closer, and cooler, and I am just excited about the "new beginning".

Praise the Lord for friends that are my new family up here in NorCal... it really is a blessing that cannot be measured.

With the closer location, I'm just praying about how the new living situation will be, and my routine, etc.

--Lead and guide me. May every day, and each moment, be lived with eternity in mind, and intentionally with excellence for Your Glory. Amen.