Tidbits from the life of a Pastoral Care Pastor

Tidbits from the life of a Pastoral Care Pastor
Monday November 29, 2010

Well I am back to writing some for my blog. Sorry to those who have been following and have “gently” reminded me to be a little more consistent. For some who have been reading along daily in the bible we are close to finishing for the year…one more month. Hope you have enjoyed your reading. Here is a link to some Christmas readings that you can use each week. We call it Advent as we look forward to the coming birth of our savior. http://www.cfellowshipc.org/preparation. Enjoy the readings and the songs as we move toward the day we have chosen to celebrate His birth. The Jewish season of Hanukkah begins this coming Wednesday. This starts the 8 day festival of Lights where the Jewish people celebrate the re-dedication of the temple. Only enough oil for one day was found but it burned for 8 days thus giving the priest enough time to make more oil. I find an interesting correlation between advent and Hanukkah.

On my last blog entry I mentioned that a close friend's grandson was quite ill and needed an emergency heart operation. I am pleased to report that the baby is doing just fine. He is still in the Dallas Texas area as the doctors want to observe him for another month. Thanks for your prayers. During this last month several people have committed or re-committed their lives to Christ in my office and I would like to share with you one interesting story. One gentleman came into the church on a Tuesday and wanted to know if he could see a pastor right away. I took him into my office and he started confessing that he was on his way to commit a crime and saw our sign on the main road and he really felt that God was telling him to go and talk to a pastor before he did something he would regret. After talking with him for a little while he wanted God to forgive him and wanted to have a personal relationship with Jesus so that Jesus could direct his life, as he had already messed it up. We prayed, he asked Jesus to forgive him and to come in and lead his life from this time forward. I gave him a bible and some passages to read and he went his way. You might be wondering why I picked this story to tell you about…well remember I said he saw our sign on the main road…we do not have a sign on any road and we are “tucked away” in a business park and you really have to know where we are to find us…sign on the main road…not a chance…can God put signs in our life? Yes and in this case put a sign in this man’s path and he followed it so he could have an encounter with the living God, a God who cares about us and wants us to do the right thing. Be blessed from this story!

Also this morning I received an email with this link, follow it and be blessed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

I finished reading the book, Radical, and gave one to my granddaughter for her 15th birthday. I finished a couple of others and have started reading a book entitled, “The Fire Within.” Very deep and very interesting readings on deeper prayer…more about it later in future blogs.

Books Currently Reading: The Fire Within, by Thomas Dubay

Current Bible Readings / Studies: Just finished Guilty by James and Patty Hutchens

Devotions: Still currently reading through the bible with a program that chronologically lays out the scriptures in the sequence they occurred or more likely to have occurred also following the Advent readings leading up to Christmas.