I gave birth to a sermon this past Sunday morning. I realize if there are any ladies that read my blog, you may be offended, and tempted to write me flaming comments about how I “Don’t even begin to understand…” and you’re right, I don’t. It’s probably a bad analogy, but the only one I can think of.
The short story is that God has been doing some remodeling of my heart the past few months. It’s pretty easy to trace the starting point back to my trip to Guatemala with Journey Church in August. That was the beginning. Another key landmark on this journey has been the reading of Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love. It rattled me to my core… I still haven’t dealt with all of the ramifications from this book. More recently, I came across the Advent Conspiracy video which I’ve posted on this blog twice in the past couple of weeks. I was inspired by the words, imagery, and music. I was shaken by the keynote statistic that Americans spend $450 Billion Dollars on Christmas each year, and it would only take $10 Billion Dollars to provide clean drinking water to all of earth inhabitants. The lack of clean drinking water is the #1 killer of human life in our world today. I actually planned to use this statistic as one of the primary illustrations of my talk on Sunday, and completely forgot about it. When I realized that Monday afternoon, I wished I had a time machine so I could go back and share it.
So basically, God has been working on me in this area of poverty, wealth, America vs. the world, rich & poor, and my place in all of that. This past Sunday I had the opportunity to give birth to some of what I’m wrestling with, and what God is teaching me. If you were not
at Journey Church on Sunday, I encourage you to listen to this talk. Not because it’s me, but because the Message God is sharing with me, and wants to share with you is so important. It could change everything…
Click here to visit the CincyJourney media page and listen to the talk. You’ll find it as the uppermost link in the list of talks. You can also search for “Journey Church West Chester” in iTunes and subscribe to our podcast.
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Luke – you did awesome this past Sunday. I am so thankful I was there. My prayer is that the fresh conviction of the need to be content remains fresh in my life instead of fading a little each day until it disappears. I want to be a giver and I want even more so to pass that trait on to my girls. God has been so good to us, I pray I no longer take for granted the things He has done in my life. From here on out the Dooley’s are paying it forward.
Love you
Kristan Dooleys last blog post..
Funny isn’t it… that you can point back to a place in time where you surrendered to God on one thing, and it opened up a whole new revelation of things that God wants to talk to you about.
Interesting to see that you and I are both on a journey of sorts… Mine was back in April, when I went to an Epic retreat with men from church. One thing He has instilled in me from that time is one of being open. If you asked me a personal question… I’d answer honestly and very openly…. because I won’t live in denial where the enemy would have me lie. I have so much more to share with you…. and I may even get you in a little email list of guys that are pretty darn close to me. I love to hear people sharing their heart for God!
Butchs last blog post..Is this what life is all about?