Weekend Review 08.28.11





















Songs:
God Is Able (Hillsong) (@HillsongLive)
Forever Reign (Hillsong) (@HillsongLive)
God of the Redeemed (Jeremy Riddle) ( @JeremyMRiddle)
*Plus a Michael Jackson Medley

Band:
BGV: Carly Absher
Acoustic & Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton (@JasonEatonMusic)






















This week we had the privilege to have Dr. Don Wilson (via video) from Christ's Church of the Valley in Peoria, Arizona to jump into our series call RETRO to talk about Noah. We are taken 7 weeks to look at lives from the Old Testament and dig into them to find the similarities in our life here today. Sometimes when I read the Old Testament I feel like it was written today. Some of the Israelites struggles are still our struggles today. The amazing things about these lives we've looked into is that they are all from the lineage of Jesus. Jesus had a jacked up family tree! I don't think his family could even be a made up show on Jerry Springer. The amazing things about Noah was that he was the ONLY righteous person left on the face of the earth. The Bible says that he was blameless which means he had not been contaminated by the world around him. He was courageous, full of faith, and obedient.

Sometimes I forget how amazing Noah really was! I usually just think of him as a man who built the ark and thats it. But Noah has officially jumped up in my Hall of Faith. Maybe top two or three. His life was amazing. Noah was a farmer. He was not a preacher but the call God put on him to build this ark radically changed his life right then and there immediately. He became a preacher and a carpenter. Most of the time we try to have God change His plans rather than allow Gods plans to change us. And that is what Noah did. It took Noah 100 years to build the ark. 100 YEARS! It was the same size as 522 railroad cars! It was huge! But here is the part that amazes me about Noah more than anything....

During the 100 years of building the ark he preached about repentance and the end of the world coming. He was the first John the Baptist and the Bible tells us that no one ever responded to his preaching! Being a church planter if no one ever responded to the word of God I don't know that I could continue for 20 years? 10 years? Let alone 100 years? Noah was incredibly faithful. True faith has something to back it up. True faith is visible in our lives. True faith always acts. True faith need storms so it can mature. True faith trusts God even when He is silent. The ark after the flood floated for 5 months in silence while the waters receeded.

So our challenge is to have true faith and if we don't have true faith like that we need to really challenge ourselves on why? If we don't are we truly a Christ-follower? We have to allow the plans of God to change us not the other way around.

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