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(CS4U) Our Daily Bread - Christmas—God’s Cure

Jesus said to [you], "O woman, great is you faith! Let it be to you as you desire." Matthew 15:28

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Christmas—God's Cure

December 23, 2010


Our Daily Bread is hosted by Les Lamborn

READ: John 1:10-18

Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. —John 1:17

If your physician called you and in a serious voice said, "Please come in as soon as you can. I have something to discuss with you," you would know he has bad news! Your first response might be, "No, I don't want to know." But you go because it is only when you know the diagnosis that you can learn the cure.

God, our Great Physician, also has some bad news—about man's spiritual condition. When against His expressed warning Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God told Adam that all mankind would die spiritually and physically. That's the bad news.

But He also gave the solution. He promised a Savior (Gen. 3:15). The apostle John tells us, "Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). But how does that help? Jesus came that first Christmas to bring God's grace, something that none of us deserve because like Adam we have all sinned. But Jesus also came to reverse what sin brought. He came to be the truth (John 14:6) that would bring us back to God. He came to "save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21).

Listen to what the Great Physician has to say in the Bible about your spiritual condition. Then accept the cure He has provided—the gift of salvation through Christ. —C. P. Hia

Life is uncertain,
Death is sure;
Sin the cause,
Christ the cure. —Anon.

Spiritual blindness can be cured only by the Great Physician.

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(CS4U) How to Spot a Healthy Church - Quickly

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How to Spot a Healthy Church - Quickly

Ray Pritchard

In the last 18 months I have come to a few conclusions about how to quickly gauge the health of the churches we visit--either to preach or simply to participate in a worship service. The Lord has allowed us to travel from coast to coast and to visit country cities, city churches and suburban churches--some large, some small, and many in-between. I don't know if doing this sort of itinerant ministry makes you more qualified to evaluate churches, but the very fact of being in a different church almost every Sunday inevitably forces you to think about where you've been, what you've seen, and what you've experienced. On one hand, it's obviously true that coming in to preach and then leaving doesn't allow you to do an in-depth analysis. But when your schedule takes you from Tupelo, MS to Muscle Shoals, AL to Baton Rouge, LA to New Brunswick, Canada to Arlington Heights, IL (my current schedule), it does allow you to worship in a variety of settings and it gives you a birds-eye view of how things are going in various churches.

I have come to the conclusion that there are two very obvious indicators of church health that the one-time visitor can gauge very quickly.

Hearty congregational singing.
Obvious affection between the pastor and the congregation.

I have written quite a bit about hearty congregational singing. That's one factor that I never fully appreciated until I started traveling and preaching in different churches. Healthy churches love to sing. This is not a statement about worship style, hymns vs. choruses, Power Point vs. hymnals, and it has nothing to do with denominational preference, church size, location, or the beauty or lack thereof of the sanctuary. I am not suggesting that healthy churches have great "music programs," a phrase I don't much like because it tends to emphasize the performance side of things. I'm not talking about excellent "special music" or beautiful choir anthems or praise bands or organ music, as good as those things may be. Lots of churches with big "music programs" hardly sing at all, although they may have big choirs and put on excellent Easter musicals. I am speaking of a church that truly loves to sing, where the music is based on good theology and the whole congregation lifts its voice in song, where a visitor can't help but join the rising chorus of praise to God. That's easy to check because it's obvious. If the people aren't singing, you can tell it. If the singing is anemic, preaching is generally more of a challenge. I think there is a lot of theology here and some insight into the human heart and something about the work of the Holy Spirit that I don't fully understand, but I have experienced it over and over again. Healthy churches love to sing. I've yet to visit an unhealthy church or a troubled church with strong congregational singing.

I have't written much about the second point, but it is equally obvious to me. When there is visible affection between the pastor and his people, when he loves them and they love him, and when you can see that expression of affection before and after the service as he greets people, and when you sense his love for his people as he speaks to them from the pulpit, there you have a healthy church. This is not a function of personality because some pastors are naturally more reserved and others are more outgoing. Pastors and congregations come in all sizes, shapes and various permutations. But you can't fake genuine love. I have come to understand that a true bond between a pastor and his people is a precious gift from God. It doesn't happen overnight but is built up over time as the pastor preaches strong messages from the Word and the people listen with eager hearts. And it is buttressed by times spent together laughing, crying, praying, talking, singing, eating, arguing, confronting, thinking, dreaming, meditating, evaluating, rejoicing, worshiping, sharing, proclaiming, rebuking, exulting, and all the other things that go into the life of the local church.

I do not tire of quoting Jess Moody who said that people choose a church with their noses. They can smell the joy.

That's as good a summary as I've ever heard. People can smell the joy on Sunday morning. And they can smell the other stuff too. Sometimes it's easy to smell the manure of church conflict. Most of us have had the experience of visiting a new church and without knowing anything about it, we sense that something is wrong inside the church. People look distraught, upset, flat, disinterested, and sometimes you can feel the tension in the air.

I don't think you can fake joy. Even unbelievers can sense it. And nowhere is it more obvious than in hearty congregational singing and obvious affection between the pastor and the congregation. Where those things are present, you have found a healthy church.

(I'd love to know what you think about this. Do you agree with these two marks of a healthy church? What else would you add that would help a visitor quickly gauge the health of a church? Click here to offer your comments.)

Dr. Ray Pritchard is the president of Keep Believing Ministries and author of And When You Pray. He has ministered extensively overseas and is a frequent conference speaker and guest on Christian radio and television talk shows. He has authored over 27 books, including Credo, The Healing Power of Forgiveness, An Anchor for the Soul, and Why Did This Happen to Me?

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(CS4U) Verse of the Day - Luke 2:11-14

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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

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(CS4U) K-LOVE's Encouraging Word - Matthew 2:10-11 (NLT) - Thursday, December 23, 2010

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When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh

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(CS4U) Emails with No Subject....Please Read

In the past two days I have gotten several emails from family, friends, and even one person I haven't

spoken to in over 2 years. All of these e's had one thing in common...there was no subject line; it was

either totally blank, or had (no subject), or Re: with nothing after it, or Fwd: with nothing after it.

Without exception all of those emails were deleted. Hackers will harvest your email and send to everyone

in your email list. 99% of the time those emails arrive with nothing in the subject line. Having been bitten

by a hacker myself...and I e'd everyone in my address book to warn them not to open the email that was

without a subject line...I would rather be safe and miss an email than to open one and discover it contains

a virus or a bogus link that harvests my info.

Please be safe! Don't open e's without a subject line not matter who it says sent it. Also, add your own

email address to your address book. Then, if your email is hacked you will know because you will get an

email from yourself.

If you don't recognize a sender, block that person, bounce the email back the them and delete.

Keeping all in my thoughts and prayers!

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WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

WITH LOVE

AND A HAPPY 2011

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

(CS4U) Internet down

My internet is down. Seems it can't get an IP address. I was hit by a bunch of cookies that my virus protection

blocked, so don't know if that caused it. Also there were lots of snow/ice storms. This happened before, and I

had to have tech support come to my house and fix it. so will be after the holidays before this can get resolved.

Funny thing is the last time I was online I had the feeling this was going to happen. Fine with me, I will get other

stuff done, and just check in at the library.

Merry Christmas everyone.

(CS4U) Our Daily Bread - Eye Level To A Bulldog

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Eye Level To A Bulldog

December 22, 2010


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READ: Isaiah 42:1-7

I, the Lord, have called You . . . to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house. —Isaiah 42:6-7

My son and his wife have a 120- pound American bulldog with a powerful body and fearsome face. Yet until we became friends, "Buddy" wasn't sure he could trust me. As long as I was on my feet, he'd keep his distance and wouldn't look me in the eye. Then one day I learned that if I'd get down on the ground, the mood of Buddy's big-jowled face would change. Sensing I was no longer a threat, he'd playfully come running like a freight train, pounce on me with his big feet, and want me to scratch his muscular neck.

Maybe what Buddy needed from me is a glimmer of what our God gave us by coming down to our level and living among us in the person of Christ. From the day that our first parents sinned and hid from the presence of the Lord, our tendency has been to be afraid of coming to a high and holy God on His terms (John 3:20).

So, as Isaiah predicted, God showed how low He was willing to go to bring us to Himself. By adopting the form of a lowly servant, our Creator lived and died to disarm our wrongs. Even now He is coaxing us from the cover of our spiritual darkness (Isa. 42:7) to call us friends (John 15:15). How can we still be afraid to trust Him? —Mart De Haan

Lord, thank You that You stepped out of heaven
and came down to this earth, that You clothed Yourself
in human flesh. We're grateful that we can now draw
near to You, even though we're sinful. Amen.

The high and holy One became the meek and lowly One.

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

(CS4U) A card from Toni ....MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

(CS4U) Our Daily Bread - Christmas—God’s Cure

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