Homecoming

Homecoming season is upon us complete with all the celebration and festivities and, of course, the football games.  Many of you love football as much as I do.  It is a great sport where people put everything they have on the line to push forward and to cross the goal, score a touchdown, and win the game.  What would happen if we were that excited and determined about living out our Christian lives?  Imagine how our lives would change if we applied the same enthusiasm and the determination to our faith.  Like a player on the field, the Apostle Paul reminds us of this same zeal as he let's go of what is behind and presses forward toward the goal, strengthened and empowered by faith in Christ, and challenges us to do the same:
 
(verse of the week)
I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.   Sisters and brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it.  But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3.12-14)
 
(prayer of the week)
Lord, renew my faith and determination to live as you would have me to live, full of grace and love, strengthened by your Spirit to love and serve you and others, amen.
 
Have a blessed week!—Pastor TJ
 
(quote of the week)
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm—Abraham Lincoln
 
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