Undefeated!

I love the lines to this song. I think it is so fitting for where we have been and where we are headed. I love being a gypsy and rolln' with my friends, my friends that have stood behind me no matter what.

When trouble comes into our lives, it has a way of scattering "so called friends" like roaches scatter in the light.

Stick with your Friends and FIGHT BACK WITH LOVE!

Song by Audio Adrenaline -

Like a band of gypsies we go rollin' down the highway,
I've come a long way ridin' with my friends.
They stand beside me when the world's not goin' my way,We may be losers but
we're winners in the end!

We are, undefeated, and we're, still believin' in the one thing that has
gotten us this far!
And we, can't be beaten, and we're, standin' on the shoulders of the ones
who went before us, and we'refighting back with love!

MC

From Life Church TV

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Do know anyone that is always negative? Someone that always says, "That can't be done!" People like this always seem to be seeing things from a negative perspective. People like this bring me down if I listen to them. Pretty soon I find myself doing and saying the same things. When I see myself falling into that I try to run away from them and keep myself away from them.

Sometimes we just look for the negative, we are a people that watch NASCAR for the crash, watch the news to see the train wreck. . . Why do we seem to be so drawn to the train wreck? What is it in us that make the negative so attractive?

I think actually I may know. It is the flesh within us that wants to live by sight. The world is easier to deal with when we can classify everything by what we can see. The bible tells us to live by FAITH not SIGHT!

If we will become people that are able to live by faith, we will be able to move mountains! Think about it, do you really believe that? Or are you letting your sight control the way you see the world.
MC

Angry Man

Have you ever seen someone throw a fit in a public place? I mean really throw a fit? Raise their voice, turn red, and threaten to take away business? Demand to speak to the manager? Have you ever done it? You really don't have to answer that!

I saw this the other day; a man next to me did this kind of rant for a good 15 minutes or so! It was because someone asked him to confirm his Identity. They were trying to protect him! I was so embarrassed for him; he was angry and looked foolish. The manager was flustered and tried his best to explain why this was done. I didn't know what to do. Should I say something? I wanted to jump in the middle of it and tell him to chill out. Something told me not to, so I listened to that. Instead I prayed for the both men.

I prayed that the one man would find out what makes him so angry and take steps to deal with it. The other man I prayed that he would see this was not a personal attack on him, and that he would be able to pick himself back up and help the other workers that had to listen to this.

Then it hit me... I wondered if the angry man was a Christian. Then I thought I hope not! It is easy to judge him, but have we not all done this at least one time in our lives?

Don't be that angry man, its ugly. God wants more from you. So stop and think next time you demand you way and your rights have been trampled on, and remember the angry man and make sure that is not you!
MC

Living Stones

The words from 1 Peter 2:2-10 are so powerful! Aren't you glad that God chose to use living stones instead of dead stones!

What we are doing is messy at times. It would be much easier to go warm a pew, be patted on the back, punch our time card and go home to watch the cowboys. That's what we did for years. I have very little spiritual fruit in my life to show from this way of doing church. This yielded many superficial relationship that we not based in spiritual matters. But it was very easy and only required my warm body and not my heart.

God wants us to give HIM or hearts, then when we have done this and are fully pointing to HIM, HE then asks us to give of ourselves to others and pour ourselves into them. We are to be about people, not buildings, programs, and list of do's and don'ts.

It's hard when you get involved in others lives. We are investing in things of the kingdom. Eternal things that the GATES OF HELL can't Prevail against.

MC