@ Delaware Baptist Church - Thoughts after Chad's lesson a few days prior

I need to change my attitude towards God. I will pray expectantly knowing full well that God can and will move me. I am a Christian; I am not popular by default, but am always striving to be. When will I care about people’s souls rather than how they treat others. Shoot, even I myself, manipulate those around me so that I am comfortable. When can I comfort those who I don’t want to comfort, or outwardly pray for those that need encouragement? God tear me in a way that I cannot put myself together again. I will be hated among men, and should not be of this world. I will be made fun of, not because I have a mustache, but because I’m not experiencing life in a way that others do. Even at Floridino’s, upon my faith in you, others made fun of me. I continue to pray for boldness but completely forget what it looks like. Lord immerse me in that again, because I never want to forget what it is like to be lost in the world, searching for something more. Fill me in your truth because I want to be the light and the example for those around me. I also never want to feel like I have it figured out, because I never will. I must seek you and others at the same time. Allow me to be your bridge O God. Thank You Lord. Amen

@ Ozark - Feeding the 5,000

Today in my Gospel of Luke class we were talking about Luke 9:12-17, where Jesus feeds the 5,000. Now, this is the only miracle that is recorded in all 4 Gospel accounts. But our teacher Gerald Griffin (Griff) was talking about the Twelve disciples just getting done healing the sick and RAISING DEAD PEOPLE TO LIFE. They obviously know their power that Jesus gave to them in Luke 9:1-2. But now somehow they are not sure what they need to do. Jesus wants them to figure out what to do in the situation in Luke 9:13. On a side note it says in John 6:6 that Jesus already knew what he was going to do about the hunger situation. But Griff was saying that after they were doing all these miracles like raising people from the dead, that he doesn’t know what to think about the Twelve’s faith. Griff was also surprised that Peter, being the way he is didn’t speak up with his tenacity and offer to do a miracle to feed them. I was thinking when he said this, well shoot, I bet Peter is thinking ‘I shouldn’t have raised those dead people, because now they are wanting food too.’ I told Griff about this and he thought it was funny enough to tell his classes in the future, that he wrote it down in his personal lecture notes. But really it might be true, because in Luke 8:55 Jesus told the 12 year old dead girl’s parents to give her food. So there may strangely be something linked to being dead and “waking up” from death to needing nourishment :) Cool huh…