i am an offering

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

There are so many ways to offer our worship to God.  One of them is to support those who really can’t support themselves.  On October 15th, 2008 - Blog Action Day, bloggers from across the world will be blogging about poverty.  We have an opportunity and a responsibility to join in the conversation and to speak on this important issue from a Christian perspective.  After all, James 1:27 says this:

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this:  to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

The Bible has a lot more to say about poverty.  We’ll take a look at these things and what we can do about them on October 15th.

Pastor Wade will be on vacation for the next couple of weekends, so I get the privilege to preach on August 5th at Living Word.  I want to teach about what leads to death (from James 1) and then what leads to life (confession, repentance, obedience).

We have a pretty good grasp on leading ourselves to death, often without even realizing what we’re doing.  I want to help people avoid those steps.  Sadly, though, we don’t have a good grasp on what really leads to life.  Hopefully the hope of the Gospel and the hope of God’s call to obedience will help people struggling with spritual death come back to life!