This Sunday is our annual spring picnic. This year we will be using the Rowland Hall fields right behind the cafeteria. Come to the service dressed for an afternoon outside. Please bring a grill-able item and a dish for 8 to share. Sunday School is at 9 AM and worship begins at 10 AM.
This fall I'm planning a series called "Help My Unbelief: obstacles to faith" that will explore common issues that stand in our way of fully engaging a life of following God. I would like to get your ideas and suggestions for topics at my blog www.dailyecall.blogspot.com Would you please follow the link and add your suggestions?
Grace and Peace,
Sam
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I think it would be at least somewhat helpful to address the issue of doubting God's presence. Every so often, I'll have a moment where I just wonder if we, as highly advanced monkeys, have just made up this great story that addresses our deepest fears and desires. It's the whole problem of "is this real, or is this just a defense mechanism created by our subconscious?" Maybe another way to put it is, "Could all this be too good to be true?"
ReplyDeleteHow about the issue of finding the time to fit it all in? I thought I was busy BEFORE I had kids but now it just seems impossibly so. Obviously I need to re-prioritize, but everything seems so important.
ReplyDeleteAlso I agree with Danny about the doubt issue. It's easy to get a bit agnostic, especially when you are too busy to properly practice your faith.
Addressing guiding principles that undergird how a person ought to deal with questions of belief would also be helpful. For example, in 1 John God commands people to believe in Jesus. What's the idea here? Just try to force credence no matter what seems clear to you? Does God really like that sort of thing, given that in other contexts people would call such a move willful ignorance or brainwashing? The prescribed conclusion is presented, but does right methodology (the way we get there) matter, how much does it matter, and what does God have to teach us about what right methodology looks like?
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