I made my first downtown run (700 foot elevation change) on my new, used lithium iron pack. First thing to note, the discharge rate is higher on the fatter 26650 cylindrical cells which makes hill climbing a breeze just on 48V (no need to overvolt the controller).
Also, the world of weird charging strategies has opened back up. Since these are hooked up in 12V packs in series, I can charge each pack with a standard lead acid 12V charger. And now I'll be able to go back to solar charging configurations seeing as the solar charge controller was built for a 12V pack.
But so far charging is slow. It takes more than 8 hours to charge a ~20Ah 12V pack using like a 2A charger. I'll probably try hooking chargers in parallel again to get faster rates. More to come... hopefully...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Harvest of the Barren
Matthew 9
1 Samuel 22:1-6
-We tend to pick things that already seem succesfull for ourselves
-Abraham and lot and barren land
-There are 5 situations with barren people in the 9th chapter
1. There are stages to the ministry of Jesus as with David
2. Recognizing that I'm poor (we can want to believe something's going to work out and yet something's not right)
-Take now thy son
-recognizing my sin (david and uriah)
-faithis a fight till death
-Let's say we get things we've been striving for... what about afterwards?
3. The effect of the barren beleiving
-When the rich beleive, they think they are getting somewhere when they are not
*We've been resisting the thought of "I don't know", but God knows
1 Samuel 22:1-6
-We tend to pick things that already seem succesfull for ourselves
-Abraham and lot and barren land
-There are 5 situations with barren people in the 9th chapter
1. There are stages to the ministry of Jesus as with David
2. Recognizing that I'm poor (we can want to believe something's going to work out and yet something's not right)
-Take now thy son
-recognizing my sin (david and uriah)
-faithis a fight till death
-Let's say we get things we've been striving for... what about afterwards?
3. The effect of the barren beleiving
-When the rich beleive, they think they are getting somewhere when they are not
*We've been resisting the thought of "I don't know", but God knows
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Breaches along the way
-We have issues to deal with in our family and day all along the way
-Thamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary
-These women have in common that they were drafted and brought in to where they wouldn't have gone themselves
Matthew 1:3-6
2 Samuel 12:7-10
1 Kings 1:11-17
Luke 2:34-37
Hebrews 5:1-10
1. There are many breaches in our world today and in our own families
2. God has sent us into territory of breaches to make reconciliation
-you need somebody to back you up
3. We did not come here of our own volition even though God makes it our volition
*God can work in us to repair the breaches... do you see them and do you want to?
-Thamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary
-These women have in common that they were drafted and brought in to where they wouldn't have gone themselves
Matthew 1:3-6
2 Samuel 12:7-10
1 Kings 1:11-17
Luke 2:34-37
Hebrews 5:1-10
1. There are many breaches in our world today and in our own families
2. God has sent us into territory of breaches to make reconciliation
-you need somebody to back you up
3. We did not come here of our own volition even though God makes it our volition
*God can work in us to repair the breaches... do you see them and do you want to?
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
It's Me
1 Peter 4:12-19
Genesis 38:24-30
-Our faith aught to be in God and we get judged for it not being there
-It is not so much what somebody did to us, but our faith in God
-We are hasty to judge certain situations that we are presented with
-Our first reaction is, what is this saying about me?
-Once we see out lack of faith and then get the proper faith in God we can then handle situations in an eternal way
1. We are blaming our lack of happiness and prosperity and judging others
2. Our faith needs to be toward God and should have developed past some things
3. Judgement must begin with us and our faith, then we will see into eternity
*I ready to stop running over people in my mind
Genesis 38:24-30
-Our faith aught to be in God and we get judged for it not being there
-It is not so much what somebody did to us, but our faith in God
-We are hasty to judge certain situations that we are presented with
-Our first reaction is, what is this saying about me?
-Once we see out lack of faith and then get the proper faith in God we can then handle situations in an eternal way
1. We are blaming our lack of happiness and prosperity and judging others
2. Our faith needs to be toward God and should have developed past some things
3. Judgement must begin with us and our faith, then we will see into eternity
*I ready to stop running over people in my mind
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Leave Not Thy Place
-Thomas the apostle was mid way down the list of apostles and clearly the most significant (in terms of recorded history) were named first and the least liked was named last.
-Thomas was named after the resurrection of Jesus a number of times, but the order he was named in changed
-Where God names us and the order of significance he gives us is important. We cannot say we don't need each other
-However, we do say we don't need the position God has given us and therefore forfeit the power therein and the opportunity to be promoted.
-We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
-what God has for me it is for me.
Scriptures
John 20:19-29
Genesis 40:1-5, 13-14 41:8-9
John 21:1-4
Romans 8:38-39
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Sermon sequence
1. The two causes of forfeiting our position... highs and lows.
-God's given you a part, and he can change your name to fit that part
-We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
-Thomas wasn't there the first time and then tried to dictate the terms of his faith
2. We need storage of God's word to make it through the temptation to leave our position
-But when God does speak, you need to go into sponge mode
-Sometimes we were collecting things in storage when we didn't realize what it was for
-Why did God have to tell Joseph twice that his brothers would humble themselves to him?
3. Jesus' resurrection was for us to believe and be renewed/upgraded in belief
4. We can find ourselves back-slidden, but we need to remember our position and God will resurrect us to it.
*Palm Sunday is God saying, this place is mine and I haven't abdicated off the throne
*It's time you told the Lord "I haven't forgotten you and I remember what you have for me to do"
-Thomas was named after the resurrection of Jesus a number of times, but the order he was named in changed
-Where God names us and the order of significance he gives us is important. We cannot say we don't need each other
-However, we do say we don't need the position God has given us and therefore forfeit the power therein and the opportunity to be promoted.
-We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
-what God has for me it is for me.
Scriptures
John 20:19-29
Genesis 40:1-5, 13-14 41:8-9
John 21:1-4
Romans 8:38-39
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Sermon sequence
1. The two causes of forfeiting our position... highs and lows.
-God's given you a part, and he can change your name to fit that part
-We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
-Thomas wasn't there the first time and then tried to dictate the terms of his faith
2. We need storage of God's word to make it through the temptation to leave our position
-But when God does speak, you need to go into sponge mode
-Sometimes we were collecting things in storage when we didn't realize what it was for
-Why did God have to tell Joseph twice that his brothers would humble themselves to him?
3. Jesus' resurrection was for us to believe and be renewed/upgraded in belief
4. We can find ourselves back-slidden, but we need to remember our position and God will resurrect us to it.
*Palm Sunday is God saying, this place is mine and I haven't abdicated off the throne
*It's time you told the Lord "I haven't forgotten you and I remember what you have for me to do"
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Hands of revelation
Mark 6:1-6
John 1:6-18
Romans 8:18-25
Isaiah 53:1-2,10-12
Luke 24:27-35
1. To reveal something is to point it out and demonstrate it. it was already there... you're just revealing it.
2. Our hands have the ability to transmit intellect or understanding.
-consecration
-sacrifice
-healing
-resurrection
-correction/smiting
-blessing
-anointing of the Holy Ghost, hand of God
3. We can sit on our hands because we are trying to save ourselves and promote ourselves (and that leads to anger and abuse of our neighbor). Lift Jesus and reveal him.
*Altar call:
-your hands were specially designed to reveal God to this world that doesn't recognize him.
-They might say they do... but they don't recognize God.
-Think of somebody you know that doesn't recognize God (like you do). And extend yourself. Reach out to them in skill and sacrifice, and when they say ah... now I see... don't abuse them for it, they will reveal it in turn.
John 1:6-18
Romans 8:18-25
Isaiah 53:1-2,10-12
Luke 24:27-35
1. To reveal something is to point it out and demonstrate it. it was already there... you're just revealing it.
2. Our hands have the ability to transmit intellect or understanding.
-consecration
-sacrifice
-healing
-resurrection
-correction/smiting
-blessing
-anointing of the Holy Ghost, hand of God
3. We can sit on our hands because we are trying to save ourselves and promote ourselves (and that leads to anger and abuse of our neighbor). Lift Jesus and reveal him.
*Altar call:
-your hands were specially designed to reveal God to this world that doesn't recognize him.
-They might say they do... but they don't recognize God.
-Think of somebody you know that doesn't recognize God (like you do). And extend yourself. Reach out to them in skill and sacrifice, and when they say ah... now I see... don't abuse them for it, they will reveal it in turn.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Faith Tried In God's Mouth
Matthew 8:5-12
Hebrew's 11:4-6
Psalms 51:15-19
Genesis 4:3-8
1. Faith toward God is so fundamental to what's going on with us that if we don't understand it, we are seriously stunted.
2.When your in the mouth of God, you're getting shifted around a bit
-God has a very discerning pallet
-sacrifice has to be by faith
-God knows what pleases him
-Lack of growth on our faith doesn't please God
3. We are so quick to misdirect our faith that we will put on our lucky socks
4. Altar call: we need to grow in our faith. Those things that disturb us, should either not do that, or we need movement on a plan to solve it.
Hebrew's 11:4-6
Psalms 51:15-19
Genesis 4:3-8
1. Faith toward God is so fundamental to what's going on with us that if we don't understand it, we are seriously stunted.
2.When your in the mouth of God, you're getting shifted around a bit
-God has a very discerning pallet
-sacrifice has to be by faith
-God knows what pleases him
-Lack of growth on our faith doesn't please God
3. We are so quick to misdirect our faith that we will put on our lucky socks
4. Altar call: we need to grow in our faith. Those things that disturb us, should either not do that, or we need movement on a plan to solve it.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
The Fulfilment of Law of Faith
Luke 24:44-53
Romans 3:27-31
Luke 4:20-23
-Faith by itself is not an action but a confidence, therefore for faith to even have a law implies some action (or restraint from action).
-Some people you can do wonders for, but they will not accept your faith because they treasure their own. Physician heal thyself.
-We need to always check with God and not turn our faith into our deeds
-The destination of the Christian faith is so great that we need to stay tuned to get it because it is too great to reveal to us who are holding on to competing faiths
-We get a little from God, and we are to take that little and grow it, not destroy it. But when we think we have much and yet be afraid we're going to lose it.
-The methodist seeks for a method but is the faith in the method rather than the method giver
1. Certain things in our life require a fulfillment process and while we wait we work to believe further
-Perfection being the fulfillment
2. We need God to help us understand what we already thought we knew and bring it together.
-It's not only scripture, but its real life events and experiences
-God starts in smallness but expects us to treat small right
3. Our faith can become tied up in ritual and Jesus was getting ready to leave his disciples. The disciples then had to turn the direction God pointed them in
-The methodist can turn all their faith toward the method and miss the revision (bike revelation)
4. Alter call: some of us have given up on an experience we don't understand. But God intended it to work with your faith and bring it and your faith to perfection/fulfillment.
-Peter wept bitterly
Romans 3:27-31
Luke 4:20-23
-Faith by itself is not an action but a confidence, therefore for faith to even have a law implies some action (or restraint from action).
-Some people you can do wonders for, but they will not accept your faith because they treasure their own. Physician heal thyself.
-We need to always check with God and not turn our faith into our deeds
-The destination of the Christian faith is so great that we need to stay tuned to get it because it is too great to reveal to us who are holding on to competing faiths
-We get a little from God, and we are to take that little and grow it, not destroy it. But when we think we have much and yet be afraid we're going to lose it.
-The methodist seeks for a method but is the faith in the method rather than the method giver
1. Certain things in our life require a fulfillment process and while we wait we work to believe further
-Perfection being the fulfillment
2. We need God to help us understand what we already thought we knew and bring it together.
-It's not only scripture, but its real life events and experiences
-God starts in smallness but expects us to treat small right
3. Our faith can become tied up in ritual and Jesus was getting ready to leave his disciples. The disciples then had to turn the direction God pointed them in
-The methodist can turn all their faith toward the method and miss the revision (bike revelation)
4. Alter call: some of us have given up on an experience we don't understand. But God intended it to work with your faith and bring it and your faith to perfection/fulfillment.
-Peter wept bitterly
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Approval rating
-We can try desperately to receive the approval of certain people and only receive marginal gains
-The gains we do receive if we do get their approval will go to God's plan for those of us who have submitted the unfolding events of our lives to the will of God.
-Approval gets us a reaction against our adversaries and adversities, approval is a widening of the door of petition
-But people love the praises of men more than God's praises.
-Paul had to exceed the pharisees, the religious elite. There can be one person in our lives God puts there to say, now do better than them or get past them
Acts 23:1-11
John 12:40-43
Matthew 5:20
1. when you have something to say, not every ear is in the right place to receive it
2. seeking approval from certain places is a hard habit to break. Even leadership might not have your approval certificate.
3. Getting approval from an invisible God.
4. You will begin to accomplish more when you can say and do despite being rejected. then you are sowing abundantly. so the investment of affection doesn't seem like its returning... so what... is God with you?
-The gains we do receive if we do get their approval will go to God's plan for those of us who have submitted the unfolding events of our lives to the will of God.
-Approval gets us a reaction against our adversaries and adversities, approval is a widening of the door of petition
-But people love the praises of men more than God's praises.
-Paul had to exceed the pharisees, the religious elite. There can be one person in our lives God puts there to say, now do better than them or get past them
Acts 23:1-11
John 12:40-43
Matthew 5:20
1. when you have something to say, not every ear is in the right place to receive it
2. seeking approval from certain places is a hard habit to break. Even leadership might not have your approval certificate.
3. Getting approval from an invisible God.
4. You will begin to accomplish more when you can say and do despite being rejected. then you are sowing abundantly. so the investment of affection doesn't seem like its returning... so what... is God with you?
Monday, October 24, 2016
Making the point
Acts 19:1-10,14-16,23-28
John 1:15,19-27
-We need to know there are some areas of our faith that need work
-There are places God is looking to go in our lives, and he takes the humble way to get there
-Even hearing a sermon, there is a overtaking that has to go on that God has to do to prevail upon our hearts.
-Our confidence in everything contrary to God has to be broken down (vain imaginations)
-Sometimes we've made the point and we're still spending our time trying to get extra credit
-John the baptist said "this is he... of whom"
-Rome couldn't handle what was inside what they conquered
-The slave girl mad the point to Naaman the leper
1. highlight the significance of the area and even the epistle
2. Place it in the context of Paul's missionary journeys
3. When we speak we want to make the point
4. The anointing the Paul had to make the point is available for you today
Characters:
-Paul
-John
-Naaman
-Joshua
John 1:15,19-27
-We need to know there are some areas of our faith that need work
-There are places God is looking to go in our lives, and he takes the humble way to get there
-Even hearing a sermon, there is a overtaking that has to go on that God has to do to prevail upon our hearts.
-Our confidence in everything contrary to God has to be broken down (vain imaginations)
-Sometimes we've made the point and we're still spending our time trying to get extra credit
-John the baptist said "this is he... of whom"
-Rome couldn't handle what was inside what they conquered
-The slave girl mad the point to Naaman the leper
- speak to the rock
- speak to the devil
- speak to the challenge
1. highlight the significance of the area and even the epistle
2. Place it in the context of Paul's missionary journeys
3. When we speak we want to make the point
4. The anointing the Paul had to make the point is available for you today
Characters:
-Paul
-John
-Naaman
-Joshua
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Love & Food
John 6:48-5
-Again John gives many great "I AM" statements as a way to describe Jesus.
-we have gone from feeding the multitude bread and fish, to feeding them human flesh and blood. But ultimately this is our communion with God and eachother
-your diet is your strength, not your natural diet... but what you watch, listen too and talk about.
-Again John gives many great "I AM" statements as a way to describe Jesus.
-we have gone from feeding the multitude bread and fish, to feeding them human flesh and blood. But ultimately this is our communion with God and eachother
-your diet is your strength, not your natural diet... but what you watch, listen too and talk about.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
This is why I couldn't bring you yet
This is why I couldn't bring you along
John 20:1-2,8-9,11-17,19-23,26-31
Judges 6:12-16
Judges 8:4-7,14-16
Genesis 18:9-15
Genesis 17:15-17
Acts 11:1-5
-our faith is only ready to handle so much
-One disciple did outrun the other in faith
-Jesus is and has exposed himself and he was unappreciated
-Heman became obsessed with why mordicai didn't appreciate him and it cost him
1. John 20:1-4
-God has things for us to do by faith and we try to bring others along
-Jesus has moved on and now has to show the disciples how far behind they are in faith
-Focusing on Peter and John running together and then separating
2. John 20:5-8
-To believe we sometimes get the attitude that we must see, but God knows what will inspire more faith in us.
-When we do see, it can set us back or highlight how far we have to go.
-All John had to see was the empty tomb to believe that Jesus was alive.
3. John 20:11-17
-Mary was struggling to believe, but she stayed there studying, still wrestling with the thought that somebody had taken Jesus' body.
-two speaks of witness
-Jesus can ask us, what's the matter? How come you're so far behind.
-Our lack of faith can blind us from recognizing all the evidence affirming faith.
-Here we see there is a penalty for not believing and that penalty slows us down.
-Slowness of faith can mean 40 years in the wilderness, it can mean being dumb until the child is born.
4. Judges 6:11-17
-we think we lack what it takes to move ahead
-But God is saying you are going to move ahead by yourself and then others will come.
-Its not that I'm competing with you, its that what I've got to do will bless us both.
5. Judges 6:22-24
-Our fears are what slow us down. And we're not talking about a healthy respect for dangerous situations, we're talking about oppositional doubt.
6. Judges 6:33-35
-The annointing on Gideon was so great that it resonated with a nation of impoverished people to follow an impoverished small man. This is God getting the glory.
-God would like you to take him on hearing faith so that he gets the glory and it doesn't necessarily have to stand in the wisdom of men.
-God then takes this army of men and reduces it to 300 men. again, Gideon had to do this alone.
7. Judges 8:4-9
-You are doing good. don't stop to hate your brother
-Just know that not everybody's mind is where yours is for God.
-Haman stopped to hate mordecai
8. Judges 8:14-15
-Once the fight is over, then Gideon had to teach the unbelievers without starting a civil war.
-See, look here they are... do you believe me now!?
9. John 20:19-23
-Jesus appears in the midst of the disciples and says. see, here I am, I told you so.
-Verse 23 says, I could retain resentment for how you didn't believe me, but I will remit it.
10. John 20:26-29
-This is a faith race and the very thing you think is going to speed you up, can slow you down.
John 20:1-2,8-9,11-17,19-23,26-31
Judges 6:12-16
Judges 8:4-7,14-16
Genesis 18:9-15
Genesis 17:15-17
Acts 11:1-5
-our faith is only ready to handle so much
-One disciple did outrun the other in faith
-Jesus is and has exposed himself and he was unappreciated
-Heman became obsessed with why mordicai didn't appreciate him and it cost him
1. John 20:1-4
-God has things for us to do by faith and we try to bring others along
-Jesus has moved on and now has to show the disciples how far behind they are in faith
-Focusing on Peter and John running together and then separating
2. John 20:5-8
-To believe we sometimes get the attitude that we must see, but God knows what will inspire more faith in us.
-When we do see, it can set us back or highlight how far we have to go.
-All John had to see was the empty tomb to believe that Jesus was alive.
3. John 20:11-17
-Mary was struggling to believe, but she stayed there studying, still wrestling with the thought that somebody had taken Jesus' body.
-two speaks of witness
-Jesus can ask us, what's the matter? How come you're so far behind.
-Our lack of faith can blind us from recognizing all the evidence affirming faith.
-Here we see there is a penalty for not believing and that penalty slows us down.
-Slowness of faith can mean 40 years in the wilderness, it can mean being dumb until the child is born.
4. Judges 6:11-17
-we think we lack what it takes to move ahead
-But God is saying you are going to move ahead by yourself and then others will come.
-Its not that I'm competing with you, its that what I've got to do will bless us both.
5. Judges 6:22-24
-Our fears are what slow us down. And we're not talking about a healthy respect for dangerous situations, we're talking about oppositional doubt.
6. Judges 6:33-35
-The annointing on Gideon was so great that it resonated with a nation of impoverished people to follow an impoverished small man. This is God getting the glory.
-God would like you to take him on hearing faith so that he gets the glory and it doesn't necessarily have to stand in the wisdom of men.
-God then takes this army of men and reduces it to 300 men. again, Gideon had to do this alone.
7. Judges 8:4-9
-You are doing good. don't stop to hate your brother
-Just know that not everybody's mind is where yours is for God.
-Haman stopped to hate mordecai
8. Judges 8:14-15
-Once the fight is over, then Gideon had to teach the unbelievers without starting a civil war.
-See, look here they are... do you believe me now!?
9. John 20:19-23
-Jesus appears in the midst of the disciples and says. see, here I am, I told you so.
-Verse 23 says, I could retain resentment for how you didn't believe me, but I will remit it.
10. John 20:26-29
-This is a faith race and the very thing you think is going to speed you up, can slow you down.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
John 12:1-50 Scheduled Tasks/Commands
John 12:1,3,7,8,10-15,20-23,27-30,32,35,37-38,49-50
Acts 10:13-15
Daniel 6:8-18
-God has determined what he would like to have done in your life long before you do it.
-There are many reasons God has given you a task
-Once God has given you a command, he cannot reverse it.
-When God gives us a task, he gives us the ability to do it.
-Sometimes we'd like to hurry up and do a command, but it is scheduled
-We of ourselves will not obey God's commandments.
-He has to drive us, so we must ask God to drive us to do his will, it is not that it intellectually will make sense.
-when we issue commands, we need to be assured there are good reasons to do what we have said
-some things are trying to command us that we need to resist (go steal, then you'll be rich)
John 12:1-50
-Mary was under command to anoint Jesus, it was for his burial that was coming up
-The fragrance of Jesus' resurrection drew admirers from Israel and Greece. the met him with palm branches. He sits on an ass according to scripture which we fulfill by following God's command and schedule.
-Jesus asked the crowd if he should ask the Father to spare him going through the crucifixion.But he said no, the crucifixion is why I was born.
-The a voice from heaven came to show others that Jesus was real and his mission real.
-Jesus marvels that many still don't believe but even that was fulfilment of scripture found in Isaiah.
-At the end of the Chapter, Jesus gives credit for his ministry and mission to the Father, alerting people to the fact they are really rejecting God when they reject him. He finishes by stating that what the Father commands leads to eternal life (thus comforting Jesus concerning his death.
*the Daniel scripture is to highlight how God's commands cannot be reversed, but God can still help us with the commandment.
*The Acts sripture is to highlight how God's commands can be distasteful to us, and that even so they a timed perfectly to save people.
Acts 10:13-15
Daniel 6:8-18
-God has determined what he would like to have done in your life long before you do it.
-There are many reasons God has given you a task
-Once God has given you a command, he cannot reverse it.
-When God gives us a task, he gives us the ability to do it.
-Sometimes we'd like to hurry up and do a command, but it is scheduled
-We of ourselves will not obey God's commandments.
-He has to drive us, so we must ask God to drive us to do his will, it is not that it intellectually will make sense.
-when we issue commands, we need to be assured there are good reasons to do what we have said
-some things are trying to command us that we need to resist (go steal, then you'll be rich)
John 12:1-50
-Mary was under command to anoint Jesus, it was for his burial that was coming up
-The fragrance of Jesus' resurrection drew admirers from Israel and Greece. the met him with palm branches. He sits on an ass according to scripture which we fulfill by following God's command and schedule.
-Jesus asked the crowd if he should ask the Father to spare him going through the crucifixion.But he said no, the crucifixion is why I was born.
-The a voice from heaven came to show others that Jesus was real and his mission real.
-Jesus marvels that many still don't believe but even that was fulfilment of scripture found in Isaiah.
-At the end of the Chapter, Jesus gives credit for his ministry and mission to the Father, alerting people to the fact they are really rejecting God when they reject him. He finishes by stating that what the Father commands leads to eternal life (thus comforting Jesus concerning his death.
*the Daniel scripture is to highlight how God's commands cannot be reversed, but God can still help us with the commandment.
*The Acts sripture is to highlight how God's commands can be distasteful to us, and that even so they a timed perfectly to save people.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Coordinated Salvation, serving scattered sheep
-Your salvation is coordinated, the spirit has come on you in unlikely circumstances to show you its not you coordinating you salvation.
-Jesus is mostly dealing with Moses and Abraham in John as it applies to his identity but here it is hailing back to David
John 10:1-18,25-33,39-42
1 Kings 1:11-16
Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
-I don't want to give off that this is the definitive view on this text, it is only what God has impressed me with this time around reading it.
-The shepherd has all sorts of things to do to keep the sheep and he needs coordination rather than gainsaying
-with every I statement, Jesus is trying to form and identify a relationship instead of promoting himself
-We must understand the shepherd as it applies to the role of a king especially as we see it in David
-coming before Jesus doesn't refer to the prophets, it refers to those that did not point people to his coming.
-John the baptist appears to be the porter (v. 41)
-Door: a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
-Is Jesus your barrier or your way in
-Yes, we have a cloak and dagger way of functioning and therefore we are not coordinated
-John was the remission of sins, Jesus was eternal life
-Many people Believed on Jesus by tracing the life of John, but also in that they got away from those that were in stubborn disbelief. Many times we would believe God if we just got away from stubborn folks.
-when we are uncoordinated, we are off and start making poor decisions.
-But God can reconcile our poor decisions back to himself and coordinate us again
-What has God given you to keep, you must be coordinated if you'll keep it
-As a good shepherd you will lay your life down for the sheep. that is the price of good leadership.
-how low can you go.
-He is looking for you to bring it to life... full term... bring forth
-the woman didn't ask for a son... but God gave it to her to bring to life
-Jesus is mostly dealing with Moses and Abraham in John as it applies to his identity but here it is hailing back to David
John 10:1-18,25-33,39-42
1 Kings 1:11-16
Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
-I don't want to give off that this is the definitive view on this text, it is only what God has impressed me with this time around reading it.
-The shepherd has all sorts of things to do to keep the sheep and he needs coordination rather than gainsaying
-with every I statement, Jesus is trying to form and identify a relationship instead of promoting himself
-We must understand the shepherd as it applies to the role of a king especially as we see it in David
-coming before Jesus doesn't refer to the prophets, it refers to those that did not point people to his coming.
-John the baptist appears to be the porter (v. 41)
-Door: a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
-Is Jesus your barrier or your way in
-Yes, we have a cloak and dagger way of functioning and therefore we are not coordinated
-John was the remission of sins, Jesus was eternal life
-Many people Believed on Jesus by tracing the life of John, but also in that they got away from those that were in stubborn disbelief. Many times we would believe God if we just got away from stubborn folks.
-when we are uncoordinated, we are off and start making poor decisions.
-But God can reconcile our poor decisions back to himself and coordinate us again
-What has God given you to keep, you must be coordinated if you'll keep it
-As a good shepherd you will lay your life down for the sheep. that is the price of good leadership.
-how low can you go.
-He is looking for you to bring it to life... full term... bring forth
-the woman didn't ask for a son... but God gave it to her to bring to life
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Labor to believe
Pre-message
-Jacob wrestled with the angel
-its the struggle that often embitters us and causes us to make it even harder for ourselves to believe and others
-Jacob is going to usher in the multiplication of belief
-but when you believe, you can work and when you work you can get paid
-we put in half a day of work and start asking, when am I going to get paid, because we are astonished with the effort the work is getting out of us... and our own effort is a bigger god in our minds than believing in God.
John 4:7-10,25-27,31-36,46-48,51-54
Matthew 20:1-7
John 6:27-29
Psalms 112
Lead up
-Jesus in this chapter is trying to draw us out of conventions to change how we view him
-He often will contrast against things he is not
-He needs us to come out for the work he has for us to do and the reward he has for us to get
Main Point
-We labor and eat, but is it to increase our confidence in God?
-When he says the battle is not yours, that's because your battle is to believe
-the struggle produces multiplication
-How an these things be seeing I know not a man
-when you believe, somebody else is going to believe
-When you want to believe God he will meet you like the nobleman and Jacob at night
Altar Call
-this is for those who have been struggling, but struggling for the wrong thing, and you've come up empty
-repentance from dead works
Book idea:
We all struggle with, labor with, push, and press at some some sort of goal in life. The majority of what it takes to accomplish a thing is in believing that it is possible and worth it. When it comes to believing God it is no different, and this is the only goal that will produce eternal satisfaction and proliferation.
Probably the most readily understood example of struggling that pays off in the Bible is Jacob wrestling with God. This scene and character of Jacob should be revisited throughout the book as an example of how believing God is often a mental grappling with him as to what God is calling us to and what God has brought us from. Many of us will not progress in belief in these moments because it is a challenge and a test, and the ideology of many is to get to a place in life where we are no longer challenged or tested.
The book would basically outline several modern day easily grasped examples of how we struggle to believe God and how we fall short of full belief in God which results large-scale failure. The book would interlace scriptural references that would highlight the issues and the resolution.
1. Marriage and child rearing in modern times
2. Recovering from tragedies and trauma
3. School and education
Also a section on anger and rage and bitterness should be added to the book (maybe in the beginning). In this section we would cover how struggling often hints at frustration and irritation which often spins us off into perpetual anger (or being malcontent). In modern popular culture violent action movies are the most successful. An appetite for this material is emerging globally. If this were a way of venting and releasing this anger, it would be ok. But instead it re-enforces our fantasies of violent engagement with society. But this is borne of a frustration that either to get where we need to go we need to be violent, or since we can't get where we want to go we resort to violence as self-expression.
-Jacob wrestled with the angel
-its the struggle that often embitters us and causes us to make it even harder for ourselves to believe and others
-Jacob is going to usher in the multiplication of belief
-but when you believe, you can work and when you work you can get paid
-we put in half a day of work and start asking, when am I going to get paid, because we are astonished with the effort the work is getting out of us... and our own effort is a bigger god in our minds than believing in God.
John 4:7-10,25-27,31-36,46-48,51-54
Matthew 20:1-7
John 6:27-29
Psalms 112
Lead up
-Jesus in this chapter is trying to draw us out of conventions to change how we view him
-He often will contrast against things he is not
-He needs us to come out for the work he has for us to do and the reward he has for us to get
Main Point
-We labor and eat, but is it to increase our confidence in God?
-When he says the battle is not yours, that's because your battle is to believe
-the struggle produces multiplication
-How an these things be seeing I know not a man
-when you believe, somebody else is going to believe
-When you want to believe God he will meet you like the nobleman and Jacob at night
Altar Call
-this is for those who have been struggling, but struggling for the wrong thing, and you've come up empty
-repentance from dead works
Book idea:
We all struggle with, labor with, push, and press at some some sort of goal in life. The majority of what it takes to accomplish a thing is in believing that it is possible and worth it. When it comes to believing God it is no different, and this is the only goal that will produce eternal satisfaction and proliferation.
Probably the most readily understood example of struggling that pays off in the Bible is Jacob wrestling with God. This scene and character of Jacob should be revisited throughout the book as an example of how believing God is often a mental grappling with him as to what God is calling us to and what God has brought us from. Many of us will not progress in belief in these moments because it is a challenge and a test, and the ideology of many is to get to a place in life where we are no longer challenged or tested.
The book would basically outline several modern day easily grasped examples of how we struggle to believe God and how we fall short of full belief in God which results large-scale failure. The book would interlace scriptural references that would highlight the issues and the resolution.
1. Marriage and child rearing in modern times
2. Recovering from tragedies and trauma
3. School and education
Also a section on anger and rage and bitterness should be added to the book (maybe in the beginning). In this section we would cover how struggling often hints at frustration and irritation which often spins us off into perpetual anger (or being malcontent). In modern popular culture violent action movies are the most successful. An appetite for this material is emerging globally. If this were a way of venting and releasing this anger, it would be ok. But instead it re-enforces our fantasies of violent engagement with society. But this is borne of a frustration that either to get where we need to go we need to be violent, or since we can't get where we want to go we resort to violence as self-expression.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Cruelty and Disharmony. The Price of Unity.
Genesis 49:8-11
2 Samuel 7:8-11
John 10:7-19
Terms:
Cruel - Willfully causing suffering without affection or sympathy
Relevance:
-Sin has a scattering effect
-We are taught to be cruel early on. kids bully.
-Cruelty comes from anger and fear, and has been associated with Jealousy and covetousness.
-This causes scattering in our homes and efforts. we are overwhelmed with sub-plots
-we look for things to unify ourselves.
-We have to come to church
Context:
-Judah is prophesied to be the unifying force of Israel. whereas Levi and Simeon brought on Cruelty.
-Jesus is ultimate Sheppard, who gathers his sheep
Talking points:
-Unity has a price... you must give up your opinion for the crowds
-The punishment for cruelty is scattering
-We can be scattered in our thinking, or movements, or speaking
-The only way for people to truly come together is in Jesus
-It makes sense that God chose the poor because then everybody can get in
-Rome was scattered, so then started Catholicism
-Servitude brings unity, David was a servant
-Fear scatters
-Babel had to be scattered
-We can join ourselves with cruel people
-Because you're the servant, people have to come through you.
Your servitude isn't going to ruin you. this requires faith.
-John the baptist told the soldiers to not do violence
2 Samuel 7
God here is telling David to keep serving, its not time for the temple to be built. and in serving David is bringing on unity.
2 Samuel 7:8-11
John 10:7-19
Terms:
Cruel - Willfully causing suffering without affection or sympathy
Relevance:
-Sin has a scattering effect
-We are taught to be cruel early on. kids bully.
-Cruelty comes from anger and fear, and has been associated with Jealousy and covetousness.
-This causes scattering in our homes and efforts. we are overwhelmed with sub-plots
-we look for things to unify ourselves.
-We have to come to church
Context:
-Judah is prophesied to be the unifying force of Israel. whereas Levi and Simeon brought on Cruelty.
-Jesus is ultimate Sheppard, who gathers his sheep
Talking points:
-Unity has a price... you must give up your opinion for the crowds
-The punishment for cruelty is scattering
-We can be scattered in our thinking, or movements, or speaking
-The only way for people to truly come together is in Jesus
-It makes sense that God chose the poor because then everybody can get in
-Rome was scattered, so then started Catholicism
-Servitude brings unity, David was a servant
-Fear scatters
-Babel had to be scattered
-We can join ourselves with cruel people
-Because you're the servant, people have to come through you.
Your servitude isn't going to ruin you. this requires faith.
-John the baptist told the soldiers to not do violence
2 Samuel 7
God here is telling David to keep serving, its not time for the temple to be built. and in serving David is bringing on unity.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Mark 16:9-20 - Momentum of Rejection/The Course of Belief
Summary:
Our life of belief follows a course that can be charted and follows a pattern similar to ancient believers. However, unbelief can follow a similar pattern as well and in this sermon we focus on how initial rejection of the Gospel (or a number of things in life) can result in further rejection later on. We compare the reaction in the text in Mark to the pattern we see of Abraham.
Scriptures:
Mark 16:9-20
Genesis 15:1-6
Context:
The apostles are leaving Jerusalem and going back to Galilee (their old way of doing things) for about 40 days while Jesus convinces them he's alive. They then go back down into Jerusalem for Pentecost.
Talking Points:
Mark 16:9 It's easier to believe God when you know the trajectory of your life before him and can appreciate what he's done in contrast to who you are. Yet he sends her on a task that will not persuade the apostles.
Mark 16:10 The momentum of the apostles was already in grief and unbelief.
Mark 16:11 Here's the initial reaction even though they hear the news.
Mark 16:12 Upon our rejection God can send more witnesses in greater force. They are moving towards Galilee.
Mark 16:13 Sometimes there's just a residue of voices in you that will eligible to believe.
Mark 16:14 God is pleased with belief, But unbelief grieves him. Then he has to back us up and we begin to recover at a deficit.
Mark 16:15-16 Here Jesus explains why belief is so important. and also why he's so disturbed by their unbelief.
Mark 16:17 These are both positive and nice situations.
Mark 16:18 Here are two situations that suggest a believer would face such circumstances. Then it ends on a good note again.
Mark 16:19-20 In Acts we get a greater account. But Jesus goes on to a higher level of operation and the apostles go on to a higher level of operation.
Genesis 15:1-2 Of all that Abram had accomplished and was doing, his sense of success was bound up in procreation.
Genesis 15:4-6 Here's what makes Abraham great and this is sort of an initial reaction that sets him on course to operate at higher levels
Exhortation:
-What can cause initial rejection is our sense of wealth or confidence to the contrary.
-What is our course of belief? What is our initial reaction to God?
-Who was the messenger that shared the Gospel with you? How did you treat them?
-We endanger our future with initial doubts when we should be honest with God.
-Our promotion of faith could be knocking on our door, but we will continue to let opportunities slip if we are caught in a momentum of rejection.
-Do you want to operate on a level where the previous environmental constraints don't hinder you? money, health, spirits, children, arguments, litigation, travel...
Altar Call:
-Have you rejected Jesus? Now is the time to turn around and repent as the prodigal son.
-Be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost, don't reject it any more.
Our life of belief follows a course that can be charted and follows a pattern similar to ancient believers. However, unbelief can follow a similar pattern as well and in this sermon we focus on how initial rejection of the Gospel (or a number of things in life) can result in further rejection later on. We compare the reaction in the text in Mark to the pattern we see of Abraham.
Scriptures:
Mark 16:9-20
Genesis 15:1-6
Context:
The apostles are leaving Jerusalem and going back to Galilee (their old way of doing things) for about 40 days while Jesus convinces them he's alive. They then go back down into Jerusalem for Pentecost.
Talking Points:
Mark 16:9 It's easier to believe God when you know the trajectory of your life before him and can appreciate what he's done in contrast to who you are. Yet he sends her on a task that will not persuade the apostles.
Mark 16:10 The momentum of the apostles was already in grief and unbelief.
Mark 16:11 Here's the initial reaction even though they hear the news.
Mark 16:12 Upon our rejection God can send more witnesses in greater force. They are moving towards Galilee.
Mark 16:13 Sometimes there's just a residue of voices in you that will eligible to believe.
Mark 16:14 God is pleased with belief, But unbelief grieves him. Then he has to back us up and we begin to recover at a deficit.
Mark 16:15-16 Here Jesus explains why belief is so important. and also why he's so disturbed by their unbelief.
Mark 16:17 These are both positive and nice situations.
Mark 16:18 Here are two situations that suggest a believer would face such circumstances. Then it ends on a good note again.
Mark 16:19-20 In Acts we get a greater account. But Jesus goes on to a higher level of operation and the apostles go on to a higher level of operation.
Genesis 15:1-2 Of all that Abram had accomplished and was doing, his sense of success was bound up in procreation.
Genesis 15:4-6 Here's what makes Abraham great and this is sort of an initial reaction that sets him on course to operate at higher levels
Exhortation:
-What can cause initial rejection is our sense of wealth or confidence to the contrary.
-What is our course of belief? What is our initial reaction to God?
-Who was the messenger that shared the Gospel with you? How did you treat them?
-We endanger our future with initial doubts when we should be honest with God.
-Our promotion of faith could be knocking on our door, but we will continue to let opportunities slip if we are caught in a momentum of rejection.
-Do you want to operate on a level where the previous environmental constraints don't hinder you? money, health, spirits, children, arguments, litigation, travel...
Altar Call:
-Have you rejected Jesus? Now is the time to turn around and repent as the prodigal son.
-Be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost, don't reject it any more.
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