This was a part of today’s message by Phil McElhenny, pastor of Kalamazoo First, Portage, MI. The message was about the existence of God, and our needing to ask questions of people. Part of what he said dealt with outlining the various arguments for the existence of God. One of those things was the idea that we can dream.

He asked us to fill in the blanks to: If I had ________ I would do __________.

Quite intriguing to me. The temptation is to answer selfishly. What if we were to answer selflessly? How much good could be done in the world? How much of the fragrance of Jesus could we spread around?

Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me,

All His wonderful passion and purity;

O Thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine,

Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me. 

Jones and Hayworth

What coulld we dream of together? Is anything to big for God?  Perhaps our conception of God is too small.

While preparing to share tonight at our prayer meeting about the persistent widow and the unjust judge, I realized that God is not some tight-fisted, bitter, and angry God, from whose hand we are lucky to pull out one blessing. Rather, God is like my father (and mother) who gives all that he can to his children. If I ask him for bread he is not going to give me a stone.

When I call my parents, they drop everything and talk to me. That is the way that God is. (He doesn’t drop the cosmos, of course, but you know what I mean.) My Heavenly Father is concerned about my needs, even if they seem small in comparison with the things on his plate (natural disasters, war, injustice, etc.) He knows my name and spoke to him just a few minutes ago.

Penktadienį, vakare, 19:30 mes žiūrėsime filmą Kristaus kančia. Šis kino filmas yra ganėtinai grafinis ir galbūt nėra tinkamas kai kuriems vaikams. Po kino mes dalyvausime Viešpaties vakarienėje.

Friday evening at 7:30 we will watch the movie, The Passion of the Christ. This film is quite graphic and may not be suitable for some children. After the movie will we partake in the Lord’s Supper.

Hey, Kandra and I just put up a bunch of pictures from our camping trip last August. During these dreary days of winter, I thought a few memories of a perfect weekend for camping would be just the thing we need!

Check out the pictures of our recent trip to the Moterių ir vaikų centras “Nendrė.” We basically passed out some food to the parents and gave gifts to all of the children. It was a great time and we had a blast doing it.

Tell me what you think of the gallery. I don’t know why the images are displayed in that 5-1-5-1 pattern. I will check on it though.

Also, I have ordered the podcasting module for the site so hopefully in about 3 weeks we will be podcasting in both Lithuanian and English. We will record them on separate channels so Lithuanian speakers don’t have to sit through the English and vice-versa.

Peace!