Hope's Ministry

May 9, 2013

My "spiritual" thoughts for this morning....

I wrote this two years ago, but updated it recently since it has no video associated with it any longer)

Three women were freed in Cleveland, Ohio this week by a neighbor Charles Ramsey. All three were kidnapped and held prisoner for over a decade.
It just seems to me that though Charles Ramsey did a great thing by helping out these three women, and I will in no way be little his actions, we have labeled his busting in a screen door to hero status. What he did...we all think..."Anyone with a right mind would have done that!" ...really, would they? In today's society we focus our eyes on our goals, our life, and we close everything else off. We have become a society of "privacy" and no social skills thanks to cell phones and internet. And then when these things come up, we go, "Oh wow. Really. This was happening here in America? Why didn't anyone notice? How horrible?" It IS horrible!!! BUT...These things are not new! Far from it. The Bible says:
Ecclesiastes 1: (NIV)
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
We have large movements in our churches where we rally together and stand for this and stand for that. We should contend, fight for those who cannot fight for themselves...the orphans, the widows, and the less fortunate. When will the church rise up and become heroes? The world won't necessarily see it! You will never have that status, for the world doesn't understand what it cannot comprehend. What they can see, what they can comprehend is your actions. The Word is LIVING. Do you think that when King David, Ester,Moses, Noah, Stephen, Mary, Peter and Paul died that the "Word" was finished creating great men and women of courage? People of the faith that were so bold their stories were passed down for thousands of years. No, the Word is living, and sharper that any sword that will come against it. So, I encourage us all, those that are believers to rise up, bust in some locked screen doors and free the captives!

March 16, 2010

Come Around 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Written by Jimmy Needham

"I thought I’d win them all with words. I’d say a smooth little line to win the room every time, and they’d be moved by what they heard My tongue as empty as my heart. It’s not enough to play the part. O Jesus give me more than words. - We pass out paper facts all week but they won’t come around. We can debate theology but they won’t come around. Apologetic reasoning but they won’t come around come around. There’s only one way they’ll come and its love. - Men with other men loving the mammon more than God, man. They’re in a sinking ship and who can save them? God can! - Maybe for a minute I can get back to the heart of it. Sure I’ve got zeal but does love have a part in it? Passionate words and beautiful phrases. They just don’t mean much if I don’t have Jesus in it. - We pass out paper facts all week but they won’t come around. We can debate theology but they won’t come around. Apologetic reasoning but they won’t come around come around. There’s only one way they’ll come and its love - And its love"

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