Sunday, September 30, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Brown's Daily Word 9-28-12
Praise the Lord
for this last Friday of September. It has been raining early this morning, a
vigorous and refreshing rain. We read in the Book of Joel about the Autumn rain.
We heard from
Sunita yesterday. The Lord is blessing her times and days in Rumania. She said
that she gets to visit some of the splendid countryside of Rumania, meeting
people who have been gracious and very hospitable to her. Praise the Lord that
He has His people everywhere in this world who love Him and serve Him.
I read the
story sometime ago of a freak accident which happened on a lake in New York on
June 18, 1956. A speeding motorboat bounced on a wave and ejected into the water
two of its passengers, a 50-year old man and a little girl. To keep her from
drowning, the man held her head above water while the boat circled back. They
rescued the girl, but the man sank and drowned. That’s how Dawson Trotman, the
founder of the Navigators,died. Navigators is an international discipleship
ministry. ( I was recruited by the Navigators to work in Indonesia in 1974.)
Somebody wrote, “He lived to save others. His death was just the way he would
have planned it.” I read somewhere that his obituary reads like this: “Dawson
Trotman, always lifting someone up.”
One passage was shared with me by our friend Warren Ayer many years ago. I read that passage from time to time. It is recorded in Hebrews 10. This is a wonderful legacy. We are called live to save others. We are called and sent out to lift someone up. We are called to be sons and daughters of encouragement. It is written in Hebrews 10:24-25… “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
In the Greek, the word “encourage” means “to call to one’s side, to comfort, to console, to strengthen.” Basically, it is to put courage in. It is interesting to note that the Greek word for “encourage” is the one used for the name “Comforter” of the Holy Spirit. People usually equate the works of the Spirit with signs and wonders. But, when we encourage one another, we show that the Spirit really dwells among us. Encouragement, I believe, is the best indicator that the Spirit is working in and through our lives.
The word “encourage” is in the present tense. It means a habit or a way of life. In fact, Hebrews commands us to “encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today”. It is also in the active voice. It means we don’t wait for others to encourage us, but we take the initiative. We must encourage even if others could not, even if others would not. Note that we are to “encourage one another”.
William Barclay wrote, “It is easy to laugh at men’s ideals; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.”
One passage was shared with me by our friend Warren Ayer many years ago. I read that passage from time to time. It is recorded in Hebrews 10. This is a wonderful legacy. We are called live to save others. We are called and sent out to lift someone up. We are called to be sons and daughters of encouragement. It is written in Hebrews 10:24-25… “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
In the Greek, the word “encourage” means “to call to one’s side, to comfort, to console, to strengthen.” Basically, it is to put courage in. It is interesting to note that the Greek word for “encourage” is the one used for the name “Comforter” of the Holy Spirit. People usually equate the works of the Spirit with signs and wonders. But, when we encourage one another, we show that the Spirit really dwells among us. Encouragement, I believe, is the best indicator that the Spirit is working in and through our lives.
The word “encourage” is in the present tense. It means a habit or a way of life. In fact, Hebrews commands us to “encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today”. It is also in the active voice. It means we don’t wait for others to encourage us, but we take the initiative. We must encourage even if others could not, even if others would not. Note that we are to “encourage one another”.
William Barclay wrote, “It is easy to laugh at men’s ideals; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.”
Friday September
28.2012
Television Outreach
7 PM Time Warner Cable Channel 4.
http://youtu.be/BIxSQK8TEhE
A Special Evening of Praise and Worship
A Special Evening of Praise and Worship
Saturday, September 29,
2012
At First United Methodist
Church
53 McKinley Avenue, Endicott,
NY
Sponsored by Union
Center United Methodist Church.
5:30 PM Community
Dinner
6:30 PM Praise and
Worship
Special Music by:
"Treasure" Praise and worship band
Soloist: Emma
Brunson
Preacher: Pastor Marshall Sorber
October Festival, with Fellowship, Food, Hymn Sing, and
Times of Testimony
Saturday October 6.2012
5.30 PM Wesley United Methodist church .1000 Day Hollow
Road, Endicott
Annual Praise and Prayer Conference
Friday- Sunday October
12-14,2012
- Opening worship: Friday 7 PM at Union Center United Methodist Church, 128 Maple Drive, Endicott
- Saturday 10 am - 1 PM We will gather at the sanctuary of the Union Center Methodist Church for a concert of prayer.
- Prayer teams will be available to pray. We will anointing with oil and will pray for emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. We will be praying for deliverance and restoration.
- 6 PM First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott. We will gather for NEW YORK PIZZA Party
- 6:30 PM praise and worship. There will be time for prayer. There will be anointing with oil. We will be praying for miracles of healing, deliverance, salvation, restoration. We will also be serving Communion at the Altar.
- Sunday October 14, 2012, Morning worship will be at 9:30 AM at Wesley United Methodist Church, 1000 Day Hollow Road
- 8:30 and 11:00 Worship services will be held at the Union Center United Methodist Church; 9:50 - Sunday School Hour
- 12:30 PM Prayer Banquet with international foods
Leaders for the prayer conference
are:
Kelly Johnson from Memphis,
TN
Andy and Sunita Groth, Rob Krech,
Meredith Watson, and Amanda (all from Washington, DC).
The leaders and members of the
Binghamton House of prayer will be joining for this conference Event. Laureen
Naik will be leading in worship music. Come expecting a
miracle.
In Christ,
Brown
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Brown's Daily Word 9-27-12
Praise the Lord for this new day. The Lord blessed us with a wonderful
Wednesday gathering for food, fellowship, and study. During the evening I
received a telephone call regarding the sudden death of Christodas Tandi, my
brother-in-law Hemant Tandi's older brother in Orissa India. We were all shocked
and saddened on his sudden death. Our family here had spoken to him just day
before. He was doing well. He loved Jesus and served Him with great joy and
zeal. He labored tireless in His Kingdom. John Wesley used say, "Our people die
well". Indeed who those love Jesus and serve Him die well and enter in to the
Joy their Master and Lord.
Here are some quotes from Bishop Wright to challenge and encourage us:
One of the most exciting Christian writers of our day is N. T. Wright, a bishop in the Church of England who has retired recently. I love to read his books. Since the 1990’s, he has taken on in public debates and in books those who question the historical reality and ultimate importance of Jesus rising from the dead. He has challenged the lies some of the phony scholars who are interviewed on The History Channel and on the PBS program Religion and Ethics. (Bishop Wright will be speaking at Princeton later in October. I am planning to attend his lectures.) Bishop Wright wants Christians to challenge the general godless world view in Britain and North America that distorts the message of Resurrection. The resurrection of a believer is absolutely about believers participating in the New Life in the Resurrected Lord Jesus. Bishop Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope, helps us refocus to emphasize that heaven can be experienced now in this life as well as after death. Jesus’s Resurrection is not only about eternal life with the Risen Lord after death, but it is about joy and hope now!
Here are some quotes from Bishop Wright to challenge and encourage us:
"Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about when it proclaims ‘May Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’
What we have at the moment isn't, as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. The Resurrection completes Jesus bold announcement of the inauguration of God's kingdom NOW in and through Jesus. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in His Son, Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
The point of the resurrection is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die; what you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it. What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less ugly or a little more bearable. They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom."
May we all be infused by the Resurrection realty and hope in Christ and may we all be propelled live day by day in confidence, knowing that Jesus came, He saw, and He conquered. Blessed be His Name.Brown
http://youtu.be/CYTQ6gpcuYA
A Special Saturday Evening of Praise and Worship
Location: First United Methodist Church,
53 McKinley Avenue, Endicott, NYSponsored by Union Center United Methodist Church.5:30 PM Community Dinner6:30 PM Praise and WorshipSpecial Music by: "Treasure" Praise and worship bandSoloist: Emma BrunsonPreacher: Pastor Marshall Sorber
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