The past two weeks have been SOOO busy that I have been slacking when it comes to this blog. I apologize to you for that, especially since I haven't gotten you the prayer requests. I only have a couple of minutes right now, so let me give you last weeks prayer requests:
Brandy & Danny -- ministry opportunity
Christi -- Carleigh possible mono; unspoken
Joy -- co-workers
Linda -- husband has high PSA #s but tests show no cancer;
Barbara -- mother passed away recently;
Sandy -- mother diagnosed with cancer last week;
daughter has cystic ovaries that may require surgery;
she has been undergoing tests for digestive issues;
Robin -- diagnosed last week with breast cancer
Susie -- father had a stroke last week & tests revealed dementia as well.
Lori -- Inella Stearns -- former grandmother-in-law -- early 90s, fell last week due to dehydration and high blood pressure; will have to have live in help or move into assisted living or with children from here on out.
Lori -- Matt Wesson -- had bicycle wreck on Saturday and brain surgery Saturday night; was released from the hospital Monday afternoon; appears to be doing well
Lori -- Mary Garris (my mother) -- will not use her CPAP as she is supposed to for sleep apnea. The doctor called her today (02/23) to tell her she stopped breathing 26 times in one hour. This constitutes severe sleep apnea. Pray she will get fitted with a new mask and start using it like she is supposed to.
Lori
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sorry, ladies!!!!
I want to apologize to all of you for not doing my job this week. I took Thursday off, as well as Friday (had a SS class get together). I intended to work on the study Saturday and get caught up. Well, that didn't happen. Scott Wilson had me at the church working on the new youth room until midnight. I got to church yesterday for SS and didn't leave again until after half-time of the Souper Bowl. Tonight I have a WMLT meeting and then I have to go back to church to work on the youth room. Hopefully we will get everything finished tonight, but don't hold your breath. Maybe I will be able to get something accomplished before tomorrow night.
Sorry!
Lori
Sorry!
Lori
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hmmm...something to think about
Saw this on a friend's Facebook page. I've done zero research, but the first paragraph struck me as very interesting. It isn't directly related to our study but I wanted to hear everyone's thoughts.
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Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.
One hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.
... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948], Christian Publications, 1982, p. 90
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Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.
One hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.
... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948], Christian Publications, 1982, p. 90
Prayer Requests from 02/03
Here are the prayer requests that were given last night. Please lift these up in your prayers this week.
Lori
Edith Fordham - she is the mother-in-law of Andy's uncle. She has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks, initially for pneumonia but now for a variety of other things. She was diagnosed with Sundowners Syndrome, a symptom of dementia. Now the doctors say she has had a stroke and that her kidney's are shutting down. Pray for her daughter, Pat, also. Pat is an only child so she is having to make all the decisions herself.
Lisa Brown - fell from a ladder and had to have over 100 stitches in her head
Sheri Jordan Roberson family - Sheri passed away unexpectedly this week. She was a year ahead of Andy in school
Brandy
Catherine's grades
Brandy has staph infection again
Kim Hester
Tina Edmonds - brain tumor removed 02/01/10; waiting on results
Brad - job!
Brittney Burgess - unspoken
Lane
Vivian Montgomery (Terri at Winn-Dixie's mom), multiple hospitalizations; bed ridden and in a lot of pain.
Mary Hurter - late stage cancer
Charlee
Her brother has recently been kicked out of their parents home, but praise God, has been coming to church.
Many of her co-workers are not Christians and it feels more difficult than usual to speak freely about her faith without being gossiped about.
Robin
Karen Smelley - emergency hysterectomy - unsure if tumor is cancerous; she is home from the hospital now and is recovering.
Watch for more updates later this week.....
Lori
Lori
Edith Fordham - she is the mother-in-law of Andy's uncle. She has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks, initially for pneumonia but now for a variety of other things. She was diagnosed with Sundowners Syndrome, a symptom of dementia. Now the doctors say she has had a stroke and that her kidney's are shutting down. Pray for her daughter, Pat, also. Pat is an only child so she is having to make all the decisions herself.
Lisa Brown - fell from a ladder and had to have over 100 stitches in her head
Sheri Jordan Roberson family - Sheri passed away unexpectedly this week. She was a year ahead of Andy in school
Brandy
Catherine's grades
Brandy has staph infection again
Kim Hester
Tina Edmonds - brain tumor removed 02/01/10; waiting on results
Brad - job!
Brittney Burgess - unspoken
Lane
Vivian Montgomery (Terri at Winn-Dixie's mom), multiple hospitalizations; bed ridden and in a lot of pain.
Mary Hurter - late stage cancer
Charlee
Her brother has recently been kicked out of their parents home, but praise God, has been coming to church.
Many of her co-workers are not Christians and it feels more difficult than usual to speak freely about her faith without being gossiped about.
Robin
Karen Smelley - emergency hysterectomy - unsure if tumor is cancerous; she is home from the hospital now and is recovering.
Watch for more updates later this week.....
Lori
Friday, January 29, 2010
Are you doing your homework?
I've just finished day two of our homework. I'll admit, I've learned more about Uzziah and Jotham than I ever knew.
What was Uzziah's primary sin? Pride! How many of us let our pride get in the way of what we know we should do? My guess is that most of us think of pride in a worldly sense. We can all think of people who are too proud to do something. Teachers, how many times have you had a student that you knew needed assistance but their parents were too proud to ask for it? I'll admit, this is what I think of when I think of pride. I've never really associated it with my relationship with God. I loved her quote, "God hates pride because it dethrones Him and puts ourselves at the center of our universe. ... Pride slights Him, but it destroys us."
What word did you use to describe Isaiah's vision of God? My first thought was kingly, but then I thought of regal and royal. What about you?
How did you respond to the loss of a hero? For me, I can't think of anyone that I would consider to be a hero that I have lost. Sure, I have lost MANY people in my life that were extremely important but I don't know that any of them were heroes. What about you?
Another phrase I was drawn to was, "It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever." The quote is a little strange, but I think it tells us that we have to make God so important in our lives that nothing else really matters. What is your take on this quote?
Alabama just won a national championship and in a week we'll be watching the Super Bowl. She talks about the players becoming heroes and how they thank God for their victories. Then she says, "God doesn't get the ring. The team doesn't retire God's number. ..." Do we do this in our own lives? I loved her statement, "A wide gulf lies between thanking God for our wonderful victories and pointing people to God as the One and only Sovereign victorious. People crave a human worth worshipping. We are wise not to try to deliver."
Lastly, I found the statement, "Like the rest of us, Isaiah probably tended to act like whomever he spent his time with." How truthful is that statement?!?! We see this happening around us all the time. We do this all the time!!!! Don't try to deny it because I know we ALL do it. You act different around different groups. Why do we do this? Why can't we just be the same with everyone? We can, we just choose not to.
I'm anxiously awaiting your responses.
Love,
Lori
What was Uzziah's primary sin? Pride! How many of us let our pride get in the way of what we know we should do? My guess is that most of us think of pride in a worldly sense. We can all think of people who are too proud to do something. Teachers, how many times have you had a student that you knew needed assistance but their parents were too proud to ask for it? I'll admit, this is what I think of when I think of pride. I've never really associated it with my relationship with God. I loved her quote, "God hates pride because it dethrones Him and puts ourselves at the center of our universe. ... Pride slights Him, but it destroys us."
What word did you use to describe Isaiah's vision of God? My first thought was kingly, but then I thought of regal and royal. What about you?
How did you respond to the loss of a hero? For me, I can't think of anyone that I would consider to be a hero that I have lost. Sure, I have lost MANY people in my life that were extremely important but I don't know that any of them were heroes. What about you?
Another phrase I was drawn to was, "It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever." The quote is a little strange, but I think it tells us that we have to make God so important in our lives that nothing else really matters. What is your take on this quote?
Alabama just won a national championship and in a week we'll be watching the Super Bowl. She talks about the players becoming heroes and how they thank God for their victories. Then she says, "God doesn't get the ring. The team doesn't retire God's number. ..." Do we do this in our own lives? I loved her statement, "A wide gulf lies between thanking God for our wonderful victories and pointing people to God as the One and only Sovereign victorious. People crave a human worth worshipping. We are wise not to try to deliver."
Lastly, I found the statement, "Like the rest of us, Isaiah probably tended to act like whomever he spent his time with." How truthful is that statement?!?! We see this happening around us all the time. We do this all the time!!!! Don't try to deny it because I know we ALL do it. You act different around different groups. Why do we do this? Why can't we just be the same with everyone? We can, we just choose not to.
I'm anxiously awaiting your responses.
Love,
Lori
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Let's try this ladies.....
Ladies, I wanted to try something that would allow all of us to discuss our Bible study and to hold one another accountable. Not everyone has access to Facebook, and email can be lost, so I thought, "Why not try a blog?" I've read a TON of blogs, but I've never written one, so let's see how this goes.
Tonight's question is, what did you think of tonight's class? I can tell that this is going to be a powerful study if we allow it to be. I'm positive that God has many things in store for all of us as we go through this study. Please, invite someone that wasn't there tonight to be there next week. I'll try to get books to anyone that doesn't already have one if they will just contact me to let me know they want one.
Please pray for each other as we go through this study.
Your sister in Christ,
Lori
Tonight's question is, what did you think of tonight's class? I can tell that this is going to be a powerful study if we allow it to be. I'm positive that God has many things in store for all of us as we go through this study. Please, invite someone that wasn't there tonight to be there next week. I'll try to get books to anyone that doesn't already have one if they will just contact me to let me know they want one.
Please pray for each other as we go through this study.
Your sister in Christ,
Lori
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