Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lord, Lord

This morning I began preparations for Sunday's sermon, but I didn't get very far. Jesus' words pierced me. Not the William Wallace kind of piercing, but more of a surgical incision. I'm still not sure everything that Jesus plans to expose in me but right now this question continues to echo in my heart:

"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and don't do what I tell you?"

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians - Ephesians 3.14-21

"I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith - that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."