DYSMAS CONDUIT
FREE FOOD
(Isa 55:1)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
Question for the day: How do we best prepare for Christmas?
What can we pray with YOU about today?
Good morning,
This is just a reminder that every day, while we are studying God’s Word to add to our website, someone from our ministry, Dysmas Conduit, is holding you up before the Lord in prayer. May He greatly bless you today as you pursue His will and He is glorified through you.
God’s blessings, our love,
George & Sidney Granger
Today’s Chapter in God’s Word
2 Timothy 3
Listen at
http://www.audiotreasure.com/webindex.htm
CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS:
Please pray for Mike and Sandy Brommer as they spread the Lord’s Seed and witness to His glory while on the road today. Please pray also that the Lord will lead them to Kingdom-profitable loads to carry, and that He grants them safe passage today.
Please continue to pray for Billy Hamburg. He had surgery Nov 19th and 2 more tumors were found, He is in a lot of pain. Please pray for the Lord’s Hand to help him overcome his anxiety as well as the cancer.
Neal/Heather Gorney: my healing & spiritual growth to no longer look or alkalize the past to seek only the future path the Lord has set and follow it!
Josh/Michelle Burkhard: Michelle as she continues to deal with abdominal pain that the doctors don’t have an answer for her or a treatment other than pain meds!
Brian Tiron/Margaret Matthews: our family. Mr & Mrs Matthews and Tiron they have really been a blessing in our lives. Our son to be and for our siblings to guide them in life.
Kurt/Jayne Heringhausen: Jill in her job search
LaPrad family: Grandma A & L, Uncle Mike
Clyde/Pat Shaffner: thank you all for your prayers as I traveled the path through breast cancer. I am feeling very well and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your prayers and the strength they gave me and my family.
CONFIDENTIAL: the soldiers, church family, those who are sick and everyone who needs help.
Jim/Karen Tosch: Jim for continued strength from heart surgery.
Melanie Kade: Vicki Freer recently had surgery for breast cancer and will be getting radiation and chemo in the next weeks please pray for her strength and her family’s strength to get through.
CONFIDENTIAL: comfort for my children, peace and security.
Vic/Joy DeSimpelaere: Julie Creasman stage 4 cancer.
Maggerts: Family in need of guidance and employment.
Jill Breedlove: Charlie to get over whatever it is he has!
Al/Ann Gay: Linda Alexander
Ruth Swarthout: family & friends w/cancer
Pastor Greg Finke
"The Word became flesh
and made His dwelling among us."
John 1:14
Welcome to Advent!
Advent marks the four weeks leading up to Christmas. We began the season of Advent yesterday in worship with the lighting of the Advent Wreath. Some people call this four week span "The Christmas Rush," while others call it "insanity."
But Jesus followers know better. (We talked about that in Sunday's message - which you can see here.)
Advent isn't so much a time for us to get ready for a holiday, religious or not, as it is a time for us to refocus on what God was actually getting started that night in Bethlehem and which now extends all the way through history and up to you and me this very morning.
Advent is our time to remember that from the days of Adam and Eve, God spoke of His mission, His promise and His hope. God spoke of His mission: to redeem the world. God spoke of His promise: that He Himself would come to accomplish this redemption. And God spoke of His hope: That all people would receive His free gift of redemption.
BUT, when the Holy Spirit actually conceived Jesus and Mary gave birth to Jesus, God no longer was telling us about what He was fixing to do, He was actually doing it! With the birth of Jesus, God arrived! With the birth of Jesus, God had gotten in! With the birth of Jesus, God was getting to work on His mission to redeem the world!
However, His mission could not be accomplished without what we call His "incarnation."
"Incarnation" may sound like an obscure theological word to you, and that's only because it IS an obscure theological word. But it also just happens to be the one word that best describes what God was actually up to as He had Himself be born and then lived His life among us as a human being.
So what does the word "incarnation" mean? It means "to be made flesh" or "to be given bodily form." So when we say Jesus is God-incarnate or Jesus is the incarnation of God we are saying Jesus is God Himself made flesh or Jesus is God Himself in bodily form. Or to put it yet another way Jesus is God Himself with skin on.
Advent is about taking a deep breath, slowing down and asking ourselves, "What is THAT about?"
John 1:14 and 18, "The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us... No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only [Jesus], who is at the Father's side, has made Him known."
Colossians 1:9, "For in Jesus all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form..."
Jesus is the incarnation of God in the world. Therefore, Jesus lived incarnationally in the world. We will look at "incarnational living" more tomorrow.
For today, ponder the Good and Amazing News that God got into our world as a human being conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of Mary. God with us. God dwelling among us. God as one of us. God incarnate.
Be wise and be Church!
Pastor Greg
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