This is the day that the Lord has made, we will be glad and rejoice in it. Hello, I hope you're having a great day of worship. Today's service was, once again, good encouragement. The message was on 1 Timothy 2:1-7. The theme was the Church as a Life Saving Station. First Pastor Josh talked about the reasons why the Church isn't being an effective witness. Because of lack of prayer, the Church has grown arrogant, complacent, and compromising. Paul starts of "Therefore I exhort first of all..." This is refering to 1 Timothy 1. We need to have 4 kinds of prayers in our lives in order to be lead a quiet and peacable life. We need supplications (prayers refering to needs) prayers, intercessions (coming from the the word meaning "to draw near so as to speak intimately. We don't need to pray with a certain voice or certain words that might make God more inclined to hear us. We are to pray like a child telling his parent he is scared or sick or hurt) and thanksgiving (something we often forget). If we do this, we will lead a quiet life, one that is free from outside worries, and a peacable life, one that is free from inside worries. When we are leading quiet and peacable lives as a Church we can be the Life Saving Station we are called to be. It's God's desire that all men might be saved and come to the true knowledge (verse 4) and that is why He gave us His Son, the Mediator who gave Himself for our ransome (verses 5,6). And therefore, like Paul, we are to be witnessing to other people that there is salvation in no other Name under heaven. It was a really good sermon and thought provocing as well.

After church I was invited to a New Years Eve Party. I'm looking forward to it. It's always nice when someone comes over and invites you to a get together. Well, I better get back to my chicken soup. Have a good Sunday, all.
God Bless.