Chilly Chilton

One of the indignities to which pastors are routinely subjected is to be approached, as a group of people are gathering for a meeting or meal, with the request, “Reverend, get things started for us with a little prayer, will ya?”

It would be wonderful if we would counter by bellowing William McNamara’s fantasized response: “I will not! There are no LITTLE prayers! Prayer enters the lion’s den, brings us before the holy where it is uncertain whether we will come back alive or sane, ‘for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God’.”   ~ Eugene Peterson

Q: What’s a BIG prayer that you’re praying today??

Committed to praying big & bold,
Chilly

We spend WAY too much time doing things that we would  NEVER want to be doing when Christ returns.

Have we forgotten why He saved us? Did we EVER know why?

Or, perhaps, we’ve lost sight of the exhilaration found in doing His work – our destiny – with all of our hearts! We entertain ourselves with tv, music, movies, video games, social networking and other mind-numbing activities — then find ourselves too tired, apathetic and depressed to have devotions and truly live. That’s awful!

The great puritan preacher, Jonathan Edwards, put it this way:

Resolved, never to do anything which I would
 be
afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

BOOM! What a Challenge! Are YOU up for it?? What will have to change about the way you THINK and LIVE for this to happen??

Determined to improve!
Chilly