Eph 2:4-6

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us
(even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.

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Tom

Rejecting help

There has been a whole lot of outrage as of late with the Burmese government rejecting help from the outside world, the obstacle has been the military government's pride to accept help from the "outside world".  While they won't let us in, lets pray that the people will let God in. We might not be able to break through the walls of hard-hearted military regime, but God's love can, the Holy Spirit can, the Gospel can.

After all it wasn't long ago that we had set up barriers in our heart, we were too proud to let anyone help, but God's love broke through!

when not perfect is perfect

I will agree with anyone when they say we should give God our best. But sometimes we just get things around the wrong way, we're so wrapped up in making our praises perfect that by the time we give them to God there's nothing really of substance left... it might look good, sound good, but the heart is gone.

One of the key pioneers of the 24-7 prayer movement, went from getting her friends at school into drugs to getting them into Jesus. She started up a gathering at her school, and it was described like this.

The music was terrible, the teaching was worse, the meeting was way too long, and people just kept becoming Christians.

It doesn't really make sense ... but that's God!
Would we give up our professional music, articulate messages, and 1.5 hour services?