Chappy Chats

God pursues us to perfect our performance

Just look at the life of Jacob, David, The Prodigal, Peter and Paul. Each failed greatly and then God led them to greatness.

It is not about you!

If we are to avoid hopelessness in our life we need to realize that life is not about us. As Christians it is not about our performance or our troubles. It is about His perfection!

Faith in government or God?

Who is the dummy for their belief in God as their savior or the government?

Finding the Sweet in the here and now rather than later.

Too many times we are looking for an escape from this life of trail to the life of eternal bliss. Maybe as Jesus taught us to pray for His kingdom to come to earth with His will being dome here as it is in heaven would be a better idea. Looking for the sweet in the here and now.

Life: A crap shoot or an ordered path?

Is life just a random set of neurological accidents across random synapses or is there an order to life. Do we think and become or do we just randomly have neurological collisions?

A time to bury and a time to resurrect!

As we approach Resurrection Sunday let us consider those things that need to die in our lives and the things that need to be resurrected in our lives. Things we need to put off and things we need to put on.

Unblended and Half-Baked

Life is full of changes. Some good ad some bad. Too many times we look at one or the other without looking at the whole. While we would not want to eat the individual ingredients in a cake one at a time before blending them together, we sometimes treat life like just a bunch of random events and moments. Just as we blend the ingredients together to make a delicious cake we need to blend the moments and events of our life together and let it come to maturity before we judge the quality of that life. Your life is still being baked. Let it finish before you judge it's quality.

Emptied Out and Refocused

Too many of us are like Pilgrim in Pilgrim's Progress. Our backpack are full and we can put nothing new in them. Try emptying your backpack this week and refocusing your life not on the storms you are in but on the God that saves in the storm.

Moving Ahead and letting go!

To many times the past is an anchor that keeps us tied to a past that is preventing our future. We need to file those events and move past them by following a few steps to freedom from the past.

Doubt without Despair

Doubt is just a part of life. The question is does doubt drive us to despair or deliver us to new heights of belief.