tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41859906662953738952024-02-19T23:01:19.514-07:00Finding God in the Midst of LifeThe central pastoral office is to make people aware.Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.comBlogger1583125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-21919925010983488802014-09-19T12:46:00.003-06:002014-09-19T12:48:16.394-06:00Everyone should get to fly.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/95917728" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/95917728">When Dogs Fly: World's First Wingsuit BASE Jumping Dog</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user15858274">Dean S. Potter</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<b>Isaiah 40:28-31</b><br />
<i>Do you not know?</i><br />
<i> Have you not heard?</i><br />
<i>The Lord is the everlasting God,</i><br />
<i> the Creator of the ends of the earth.</i><br />
<i>He will not grow tired or weary,</i><br />
<i> and his understanding no one can fathom.</i><br />
<i> He gives strength to the weary</i><br />
<i> and increases the power of the weak.</i><br />
<i> Even youths grow tired and weary,</i><br />
<i> and young men stumble and fall;</i><br />
<i> but those who hope in the Lord</i><br />
<i> will renew their strength.</i><br />
<i>They will soar on wings like eagles;</i><br />
<i> they will run and not grow weary,</i><br />
<i> they will walk and not be faint.</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-29817057189106492062014-01-14T15:12:00.001-07:002014-01-14T15:13:35.656-07:00A Greater Love.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-816476937505445292013-12-13T20:07:00.000-07:002013-12-13T20:08:25.513-07:00Here is a parable of life for you to ponder on:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>A group of tourists sit in a bus that is passing through gorgeously beautiful country; lakes and mountains and green fields and rivers. But the shades of the bus are pulled down. They do not have the slightest idea of what lies beyond the windows of the bus. And all the time of their journey is spent in squabbling over who will have the seat of honor in the bus, who will be applauded, who will be well considered. </i><b>And so they remain till the journey's end.</b> ADeMelloStew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-22956044739212123732013-12-12T18:44:00.002-07:002013-12-12T18:44:31.541-07:00Love is the new standard.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-71318505736261263822013-12-10T20:13:00.000-07:002013-12-10T20:13:29.465-07:00Place means a lot to me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What about you?Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-13870336741347156102013-12-07T17:14:00.001-07:002013-12-07T17:14:30.010-07:00Have you decided that following Jesus should probably affect the way you live your life?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-25510118145618210212013-12-06T13:59:00.002-07:002013-12-06T13:59:44.238-07:00We can learn how to love well.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, "Here comes my food!"</b> <i>Watchman Nee</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-85770851083719414732013-12-04T00:30:00.000-07:002013-12-04T00:30:02.911-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-17167903971887016602013-12-03T00:30:00.000-07:002013-12-03T00:30:00.824-07:00Pray with reckless abandon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.</i><br />
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<i>Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-40358719093961794212013-12-02T13:18:00.000-07:002013-12-02T13:18:21.418-07:00Are you living the normal Christian life?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It means the living of a crucified life and a resurrected life for the body of Christ and God’s eternal purpose.Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-44442805678477256062013-12-01T08:38:00.000-07:002013-12-01T08:38:17.944-07:00Be as bold as love is.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-6851445873540490262013-11-30T09:38:00.000-07:002013-11-30T09:38:18.462-07:00Walk toward the messes.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferes, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.</i> LRavenhillStew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-2042952592216631302013-11-29T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-29T19:42:45.269-07:00My counsel for you is simple and straightforward:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.</i><br />
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-64185848391652281362013-11-28T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-28T00:30:03.489-07:00Spectatoritis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Get into the game!</b>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-13364199325856877282013-11-27T11:43:00.000-07:002013-11-27T13:04:44.597-07:00Lust is turning a human being into an object.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-48654289802011992152013-11-26T17:27:00.001-07:002013-11-26T17:27:57.804-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so.</i><br />
<i>One must simply hold out and endure it.</i><br />
<i>At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort.</i><br />
<i>For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it.</i><br />
<i>It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve — even in pain — the authentic relationship.</i><br />
<i>Further more, the more beautiful and full the remembrances, the more difficult the separation.</i><br />
<i>But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.</i> BonhoefferStew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-32823729605118163582013-11-25T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-25T00:30:00.083-07:00The compassionate life is a community life.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Precisely because we are so inclined to think in terms of individual greatness and personal heroism, it is important for us to reflect carefully on the fact that the compassionate life is a community life. </b><i>Nouwen</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-15768201604665184812013-11-24T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-24T00:30:01.591-07:00God's personal invitation to each & every one of us -<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Is that we get to work on His agenda using the talents we've been given in ways that are eternally significant</b>. <i>Wow.</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-340779419611806252013-11-23T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-23T00:30:01.705-07:00Prayer and intimacy with God need to be developed right In the middle of everyday life - not once a week.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-1682328080435043762013-11-22T16:12:00.000-07:002013-11-22T16:13:13.435-07:00Disasters always bring communities closer together as neighbours rally to protect homes, defend properties and livelihoods, and save lives. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>But it’s the relationships we make during the good times which serve us well, all year round & sustain us.</b>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-32574912096481843492013-11-21T18:25:00.003-07:002013-11-21T18:25:51.917-07:00Before you get serious about Jesus, consider carefully how good you're going to look on wood!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(<i>DBerrigan</i>)Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-57739709770434945192013-11-20T00:30:00.000-07:002013-11-20T00:30:01.180-07:00Happiness is love.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The #1 most important finding from the <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Triumphs-Experience-Harvard-Grant-Study/dp/0674059824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384902638&sr=8-1&keywords=Triumphs+of+Experience%3A+The+Men+of+the+Harvard+Grant+Study" target="_blank">Grant Study</a> is this:<br />
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<i>“The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: <b>Happiness is love. </b> Full stop.”</i>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-79363665663231395412013-11-19T09:53:00.002-07:002013-11-19T09:55:05.794-07:00The essences of Christianity is - <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>We love Jesus more than this life itself.</i></b>Stew Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311644130759205764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185990666295373895.post-67529421472237261082013-11-17T19:49:00.001-07:002013-11-17T19:49:08.629-07:00Some of my friends have unknowingly mistaken telling others what they should believe for practicing Christianity.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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