Membership: to be a member who enjoys all the rights and accepts all the responsibilities of being a participant of a particular organization. Most of us probably have a membership with a number of organizations or stores that offers us a variety of privileges, as well as responsibilities. You may be a member of a country club or a warehouse store. Maybe…
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From Kevin (Page 4)
As we engage and deal with all the relationships in our lives, we find both ends of the spectrum: joy and sorrow. Walter Trobisch, a European author and pastor, once wrote that learning to love in our relationships, …is anxiety and contentment, it is deep yearning and hostility, it is pleasure and pain, there is not one without the other. Happiness is…
This summer, we are trying to address the area of relationships in our lives. On one level, this focus could be seen as some pretty light weight stuff. We could be talking about the fluffy and idealistic Disney type things of Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty finding love and living happily ever after. Unfortunately, that story (and others like it) are actually…
At the end of the day and when all else fails, our most significant disappointments in life are usually something that is connected with our key relationships. We can survive employment failures. We know that eventually we will not be able to maintain our athletic abilities, at least not at the same level that we are used to. We even realize that…
I just arrived in Haiti today, Tuesday, May 16th. It was a long day as our flight left the ground at Lambert at 6am, sharp. There was a one hour lay over in Miami and then on to Port Au Prince, the bustling capital of Haiti, just as a Tropical storm was moving over the mountains surrounding the city from the south.…
Luke chapter 15 gives us insight into the heart of God. It reveals that God, and all of heaven, are thrilled when people turn toward God, Himself. Now, let’s be honest… we usually don’t turn toward God until we are between a rock and a hard place. It is at the dead ends of life that we begin to consider God as…
Jesus tells a triad of stories, recorded in Luke chapter 15, that reveal the depth of God’s love for people… all people… even people who are hard to love or may not seem like they deserve love. Each of these parables, that Jesus tells, are aimed at exposing the heart of the religious elite of His day. It is these religious elite…
This week, known as the Passion Week, will be celebrated and observed by billions of people around the world. It is culminated on Sunday with Resurrection Day… the day Jesus rose from the dead. There will be thousands upon thousands of reenactments of the scene of a stone being rolled away from a tomb that is empty, except for the grave clothes…
We have been asking the question of ‘What does it looks like to love?’ for the past several months. I trust that the significance of that question and its ‘descriptions’ have begun to infiltrate your heart and your daily experiences. This past week, we saw in I John 4 that “mature love cast out fear,” for fear is caught up in the potential of punishment. As followers of…
Membership with a different flavor… it is more like a partnership… it’s even more like a family. In a few weeks (March 26th, 12 noon till 2 pm), we will be offering a ‘membership cornerstone/seminar/class’ for anybody that would like to consider becoming an “official” member of Quest. Let me throw out a few thoughts for you to chew on concerning ‘membership’:…