On this
beautiful autumn day students all over the country will be gathering around the
flagpoles in front of their schools to pray for their schools, teachers,
leaders, and administrators. It is a student-led, student-initiated movement
to reclaim our schools for the Lord. Pray for them as they make this bold
statement today.
David Ring
is a man who was born with cerebral palsy. He has a speech impediment that is
so bad that you have to struggle to understand him. In spite of this he holds
audiences spellbound with his great heart and great attitude: "They said I'd
never ride a bike, but I did. They said I'd never get married, but I did — I've
got five kids to prove I did okay. They said I'd never preach but I've preached
265 times this year. And I got cerebral palsy. What's your
problem?"
Our
problem might be that we expect advantage without adversity, power without pain,
wisdom without weakness. Yet Paul wrote that God chose the weak things of the
world to shame the strong. He also wrote, "For when I am weak, then I am
strong" (2 Corinthians
12:10).
What David
Ring has learned as he struggled through the adversities of his life, we all
must learn. Do we want to gain some advantage? We can, but not without
adversity. Do we want to be somebody? There's nothing wrong with that, but we
have to remember this: God delights in making somebodies into nobodies so He can
make the nobodies into the somebodies He had in mind! We will gather for our
Wednesday Evening gathering at 6 PM with a special meal followed by Bible Study
and Choir Practice.
Blessed be
the Name of Jesus of our Lord.
Brown
An Evening
Praise and worship ...
September 28,
2013
First United
Methodist Church, 53 Mckinley Ave., Emdicot
5.30 PM Praise
and Worship and a time of Testimony.
Preacher:
Pastor Marshall Sorber.
Followed by a
special banquet. All are welcome. For Information call 607-748-6329
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