Thursday, March 28

Tag: the gospel

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Message in a Bottle

Read blog below or listen to the podcast. In 1999 Kevin Costner starred in a movie called 'Message in a Bottle'.  Garret Blake (Kevin Costner) writes a love letter and puts it in a bottle.  It was his way of sharing his heart that had been broken by a previous relationship.  Some time later the bottle washes up on a beach and a curious passer by, Theresa Osborne, a journalist finds it and finds the romance of the situation news-worthy.  In the hunt for Garret in order to write a news article, she instead finds herself in love!  Highly romantic, and for Valentines, probably highly appropriate. In a much deeper and life changing significant story, this time for real, God has sent His message in a bottle, for anyone curious enough to pick it up and be transformed by it. The Gospel is the me
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Nothing Really Really Matters!

Read blog below or listen to the podcast. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. Philippians 1:10 Asking "what really matters?" helps us live meaningful lives from a different perspective. Otherwise we only live from a perspective of the here & now, and from our past experiences, and not from heavenly values.  In the letter to the Philippians Paul makes some serious perspective statements: 1:21 For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better. He knew by dying he would be with Jesus, and by living he could keep preaching the gospel, and establishing the Church - the things that really matter.  So he was happy either way. Perspective!  Nothing else really really matte