Monday, August 16, 2010
Machine Gun Preacher
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Go to www.machinegunpreacher.org to find out more about Sam Childers... Word on the street is that his story is going to be a major motion picture (or so Gerard Butler says!) ...
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Supplies...
Hi everyone,
We've had a ton of supplies come in over the last few months and praise God, we've been able to hand out most of it! So now we're back in the position of needing to re-stock on a few items. Below are the items we could really use for our next outing:
-Lip balm
-Shampoo
-Conditioner
-Gum
-Tic Tacs
-Socks (men's and women's)
-Playing cards
-Gallon sized Ziplock bags
-Sleeping bags (These are a huge hit with the Travelers and so very much appreciated by them.)
-Anything else you can think of!
Again, we just want to thank everyone for all of the giving you have already done and continue to do. It's so exciting when the body of Christ unites in one accord in order to further the Kingdom of God. There is no limit to His riches and greatness...
Have a wonderfully blessed weekend,
-TJP
We've had a ton of supplies come in over the last few months and praise God, we've been able to hand out most of it! So now we're back in the position of needing to re-stock on a few items. Below are the items we could really use for our next outing:
-Lip balm
-Shampoo
-Conditioner
-Gum
-Tic Tacs
-Socks (men's and women's)
-Playing cards
-Gallon sized Ziplock bags
-Sleeping bags (These are a huge hit with the Travelers and so very much appreciated by them.)
-Anything else you can think of!
Again, we just want to thank everyone for all of the giving you have already done and continue to do. It's so exciting when the body of Christ unites in one accord in order to further the Kingdom of God. There is no limit to His riches and greatness...
Have a wonderfully blessed weekend,
-TJP
Thursday, August 5, 2010
I do what I see the Father doing
"When Jesus started His ministry He was ready ~ ready to eat and drink with broken & messy people ~ to focus in their heart not on their behavior ~ to heal them all ~ Never pushed anyone to perform, just to have faith & be obedient & humble ~ He gave people time to change ~ never gave the impression that He was perfect when He was ~ He only said "I do what I see the Father doing" & "the ruler of this world has nothing to do with Me"."
This is from my friend Patricia Camu's post on FB today. It is a theme I am seeing on a daily basis both in my life and in the lives of others. God is doing a work. My heart is crying out for more ... more love, more compassion, more mercy, more grace, more kindness. This is what will attract people to Christ and not all the criticism, judging and bickering that is rampant today. With all my heart I want to stay as far away from that as possible.
This is from my friend Patricia Camu's post on FB today. It is a theme I am seeing on a daily basis both in my life and in the lives of others. God is doing a work. My heart is crying out for more ... more love, more compassion, more mercy, more grace, more kindness. This is what will attract people to Christ and not all the criticism, judging and bickering that is rampant today. With all my heart I want to stay as far away from that as possible.
Monday, August 2, 2010
3rd Outing Officially Scheduled!
Hey everyone! So excited... Heading back out August 21st. We'll meet at the church at 3:45pm like usual - spend a quick time in prayer - and then head on down to the Band Shell... Please pass the word along. Let us know if you'd like to come if you are new to The Justice Project (TJPBoulder@yahoo.com). We'd love to have you and your friends... But we'll take whoever shows up. :) Blessings to you all this week... We love you and even greater, God loves you...
-TJP
-TJP
Journal Entry from Outing #2
OH, HOW HE LOVES US!
The words of a song come to mind: ‘Oh, how… how He loves us, how He loves us so!’
I couldn’t get those bright, blue sparkling, tear-filled eyes out of my mind! That 60 something year old gentleman. That’s exactly what he was, a gentleman. Who, when I said, “Oh, isn’t it wonderful how Jesus loves?” said, “You don’t know, you just don’t know!”
I kind of thought he meant that he felt he wasn’t worthy or “you just don’t know how I’ve lived!”
But, no, he touched his heart with one hand and raised his other to heaven, smiled at me with those loving, blue eyes and said, “You just don’t know how much He loves me!” Then my eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t speak except to say, “ Yes, what wonderful love He has for us both.”
He kept turning away to wipe away the tears. How sweet, I thought that You are loving us, Holy Spirit. I couldn’t articulate how the Holy One was enveloping and moving all around us, just loving us, loving us all right there at that moment.
I knew then that it wasn’t what we thought we were there to do: pray, teach or preach. But, we were to just be. Just be with one another, humbled in God’s unfailing, underserved love for all of us there.
I thanked those at that picnic table for allowing us to hang out with them for a while, and they spoke up and said, “No, thank you for spending your time with us.”
How I felt at that moment was pure love for someone else that Jesus loved, that Jesus bled and died for, and oh, how there’s nothing we can do to earn it, and nothing we can do to keep Him away. There’s nothing we can do to stop His everlasting, ever-enduring love from breaking through our pain, our sorrow, our displeasure with one another. His love is truly our breakthrough- for each and every one of us who are created to carry His love and then give it away!
God wants to do something here today! Some of you have broken hearts, brokenness that you don’t know how to repair. There are some of you here that the cares of this world have just weighed you down with: depression, despair, all the stuff that Satan just wants to push you down with and bury you under with such a heaviness that you don’t know how to get out from under.
God wants to release you from all of that weightiness today! If you will just come and bow before Him right now, right where you are, and lay down those burdens, He will take them from you.
As you do that, as you release that brokenness, that torment, that grief, He will then be able to fill you up with His peace, His love, His joy! He can then replace that broken heart with a heart that is whole again, even better than it was before. God is reaching for you. Reach out to Him as well! You’ll never be the same, never the same!
-Debbie Matthews
The words of a song come to mind: ‘Oh, how… how He loves us, how He loves us so!’
I couldn’t get those bright, blue sparkling, tear-filled eyes out of my mind! That 60 something year old gentleman. That’s exactly what he was, a gentleman. Who, when I said, “Oh, isn’t it wonderful how Jesus loves?” said, “You don’t know, you just don’t know!”
I kind of thought he meant that he felt he wasn’t worthy or “you just don’t know how I’ve lived!”
But, no, he touched his heart with one hand and raised his other to heaven, smiled at me with those loving, blue eyes and said, “You just don’t know how much He loves me!” Then my eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t speak except to say, “ Yes, what wonderful love He has for us both.”
He kept turning away to wipe away the tears. How sweet, I thought that You are loving us, Holy Spirit. I couldn’t articulate how the Holy One was enveloping and moving all around us, just loving us, loving us all right there at that moment.
I knew then that it wasn’t what we thought we were there to do: pray, teach or preach. But, we were to just be. Just be with one another, humbled in God’s unfailing, underserved love for all of us there.
I thanked those at that picnic table for allowing us to hang out with them for a while, and they spoke up and said, “No, thank you for spending your time with us.”
How I felt at that moment was pure love for someone else that Jesus loved, that Jesus bled and died for, and oh, how there’s nothing we can do to earn it, and nothing we can do to keep Him away. There’s nothing we can do to stop His everlasting, ever-enduring love from breaking through our pain, our sorrow, our displeasure with one another. His love is truly our breakthrough- for each and every one of us who are created to carry His love and then give it away!
God wants to do something here today! Some of you have broken hearts, brokenness that you don’t know how to repair. There are some of you here that the cares of this world have just weighed you down with: depression, despair, all the stuff that Satan just wants to push you down with and bury you under with such a heaviness that you don’t know how to get out from under.
God wants to release you from all of that weightiness today! If you will just come and bow before Him right now, right where you are, and lay down those burdens, He will take them from you.
As you do that, as you release that brokenness, that torment, that grief, He will then be able to fill you up with His peace, His love, His joy! He can then replace that broken heart with a heart that is whole again, even better than it was before. God is reaching for you. Reach out to Him as well! You’ll never be the same, never the same!
-Debbie Matthews
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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