365 Forum

I absolutely love our 365 Forum. This is a group of people reading through the Bible, and then gathering to discuss what we've read. We ask questions and make comments. I do my best to answer questions as best I can, and I give an introduction to what's coming up. We're in Job right now, and moving into Psalms before our next gathering on June 9th.

What a beautiful group of people hungry to learn more about God's Word.

Father I pray for these who have chosen to read through your Word this year, and have set aside weekend time (is there any other kind that is so precious?) to get together and learn. Thank you for their teachableness, and help me to be teachable, too. Amen.

Hey! Tomorrow is Memorial Day Weekend. I'm really excited about our worship celebration. One thing that we're trying is a Heaven Holds the Ones I Love Memorial. We've asked people for their pictures of loved ones who have passed away, so we can honor our memories of those who laid the foundation for us to build on. I think this is going to be extremely moving, an intimate time of worship and remembering with our church family.

This memorial was my wife Janelle's idea. She's wanted to do this ever since a friend gave her a copy of the song Heaven Holds the Ones I Love after her dad passed away a few years ago. She's put a lot of time into this, and so have Richard and Laurie (Guth) DuMontier. Richard and Laurie are two of my favorite people in the whole world. Richard lost his wife to Wilson's Disease (a rare liver disease that only affects 1 in 1,000,000), and Laurie lost her husband to an accidental death at the hands of a drunk driver. I have had the double blessing of baptizing them both, and joining them in marriage--all in the last few months. Richard has spent hours and hours doing the detail work of putting this memorial presentation together. I just can't say enough about what his hard work means to me. I thank God for Richard and Laurie (and Chrystal, too).

Not only is tomorrow Memorial Day Sunday; it's also Pentecost Sunday. In keeping with my commitment to stay truer to the Church Calendar than the American Calendar, my teaching will be Walking with the Spirit. I wrote the title wrong, and for the first half of the week our marquee said Walking the Spirit. My bad.