Yes, I’m alive!  It has been a long time since I’ve posted anything.  Sorry about that.  LOTS have changed - mostly inside of me.  Some tangible changes will occur as a result of these changes, but I’ll have to share all of that a later day.

For now, I want to talk about the sermon series we’re doing at church (along with over 1,000 other churches).  It’s called One Prayer (see oneprayer.com for details).  For our local church, our pastor’s prayer is “Lord, make us courageous!”  What an appropriate prayer, at least for me.  Fear has gripped me in ways I didn’t even realize until these last coupel of weeks, but praise God - He has broken those chains!  A nifty little part of this One Prayer series that our awesome Tech Team put together for all us attenders is a forum where we can post our own one prayers for the Church.  Since everyone reading this page might not check that one out, I wanted to share my one prayer here for all of you.

My one prayer for the Church is Lord, make us effective!  This prayer to be effective is a two part prayer.  One is for the body of Christ to be effective within its own members.  If we can’t unite and share each other’s needs within the different local bodies of the Church, we will not be effective in our outreach to the lost.  Do we really want the lost to see a broken, incomplete picture of who Christ is?  Part two of my prayer is for the Church to be effective throughout all the nations to those outside the body of Christ.  I believe part two will come naturally once we achieve part one.  If we Christ-followers share each others burdens and joys, live our lives dedicated one to another in Christ, the lost and dying of this world will notice.  The love we express toward one another, that Agape love, will draw the lost to their Savior.  Oh Lord, may it be so.

I know it’s a short blog considering it’s the first one in weeks, but this is all I have at this time of the night.  Until next time…