My, my, my it seems I take longer to write then what I would like, but I feel I need to put something worth while for any to read.

Talk about a lop sided journey. I’m talking about this week for Jesus.

We start the week off riding a small donkey in a big parade through town on Sunday, have a Last Supper, pray so hard you actually have blood coming out of your pours, get betrayed by a friend, get arrested, get denied by your closest friend, have a court session with the Church Leaders on Thursday, and then, brought in front of the Roman Empire, beaten, mocked, whipped, made to carry your own interment of death, and put to death on the cross on Friday.

This is called Holy week/Passion week. Seems to me this was the week from hell. But this is where Jesus was supposed to be on Saturday, according to the Apostle’s Creed.

Something tells me the were no ice cubes on this trip…

Makes one wonder what could of happened on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday??

I’m sure if I’d go back and reread Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John I’d find the answer, but it’s never really been emphases on what occurred.

What did occur is this.

The Son of God took the cup that was passed to him from his Father. This cup was filled with all of our transgressions. Jesus did this for the sake of us all! In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed for this cup to pass, not of his will, but of the Fathers will.

God, in his very own special way, knew the time was right for all of the Old Testament Prophecies to be fulfilled. That the Lamb was ready, the world was ready, and the people were ready. It just seems that Gods chosen people, the Israelites, were not and still are not ready to accept that Jesus is the one.

Now, what is called Good Friday, Jesus is Crucified for our sins! Not his sins, BUT OURS!!! He does this willingly, for he knows what will happen. It takes some of those who followed Jesus until the day after the Sabbath to find out what has happened. It takes some of the Disciples till the end of the day to figure it out, and one doubting Thomas a visual to understand.

What is there to understand? The fact the Jesus did something that only the Son of God could do. What’s that you say? Jesus defeated death! Yes, he has been resurrected, brought back from the dead, has been redeemed, and last but not least, kicked Satan’s butt!!

Thus we now celebrate this day and call it EASTER.

And you all thought it had to do with a gene modified rabbit who brought in the eggs!!!

Till next time

Yours in Christ

Todd

As we try to make time for all there is to do in God’s plan, I’ve noticed these never enough “time” to do all we want.

Take for instance, this summer.

I took a journey to a program from the South – Central Illinois Synod, the Northern Illinois Synod, and the Metro Chicago Synod called Leadership Lab. This program is designed for young adults, from freshman in High School through College, along with older adults to teach, show, and provide guidance to become leaders in the Church and in life.

This was my first time going to this lab (older adult group), but not as a student, as a guider/teacher. Boy did I learn something..

As we go through life, we are challenged to learn/adapt to the world, people come into our lives who make us see things differently. I had the great opportunity to “adapt” at this Lab by all the people I met.

What made me “adapt” the most, was the group of “kids” I had the opportunity to learn from. It’s amazing what one can see about the world when one sits back and watch and listen. Here I thought I had started a good Faith Journey, but these “kids” have passed me by. It was great to see that when all we hear about is doom and gloom about how the Church is dieing. Well, with this group (Daddy Rabbit) the Church is very much alive!!

It just amazes me how when a group of people who all have been “in” the Church, can have such a grear time with total strangers.

How interesting it was to was all these peolpe come from diffrent areas in a State, diffrent Church upbringing, and diffrent lifestyles to look at each other on Monday. Watch them through the week and then on Saturday, act like they are lossing the best friend for live…

I hope and pray that all those involved, keep each other in mind each night as they say their prayers, and try to stay in touch.

I see that two people from “Lab” have signed up as members, I hope that they add to the jopurney.

Now, hopefully next insalation won’t be 10 months from now!!!

Till next time

Yours in Christ

Todd

Now, for the tough question! How many know what the best Christmas present there is?

Give up?

Well in my humble opinion. Christ, himself, is the present we all should have jumped up and down for JOY about.

How many kids today don’ even know what the true meaning of Christmas is all about? But think all December 25 means is presents under an evergreen tree and what goodies am I going to get.

I hope that I’m getting the true message behind Christmas, too my kids.  I hope that thy just don’t think, well, we gotta go do some sort of show at Church again.

That the Christmas Tree, the songs sung, and the gifts exchanged all have a part in trying to understand what God did for us when Jesus came to Earth to become a human being. What it means when Jesus walked among us not as God, but as a human. When Jesus answered the call from above and became the most prefect sacrifice for us all.
What happened when Jesus died upon the Cross for our sins. What the meaning of the resurrection is all about and how Easter Sunday has the better present.

I hope that all who read this enjoy my ramblings and just might get something out of them.

May this day of Christmas find you with peace and joy.

Till next time.

In Christ
Todd

As we think like a child, we tend to do as a child!!

As a parent, this becomes more clearer every day!!

We try to teach our kids the right way verses the otherway(wrong) depending on which side your sitting on?!

I think that the most simple commandments are the ones we tend to forget.

The 1st; I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other before me.

How many of us have allowed another one before the Father?

Who, who read this blog, have let things of this world control them?

The story we were told about, you can not serve two masters. have we disregaurded, and are trying to serve the two!

Are we so wrapped up in trying too keep up with the Jones, we have left the important one behind?

But, let me pull back a little, and bring up one more of those easy songs, that as a kid I thought was great, “THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE”

 

If you have never heard of it, or have forgotten.

This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Hid it under a bushel, NO, I’m going to let it shine.

Hide it under a bushel, NO,. I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

I’m pretty sure there’s a third and fourth verse, but CRS has set in!!!

How easy it is for us to hide under a bushel, not let it be known what we believe in, and to speak out against what we know to be wrong.

Well I hope that this story and others to come, as time permits, will let my light shine, so other might see the way.

I hope this isn’t the blind leading the blind…

But, I know my path, and yeah tho I walk threw the valley of death, NO FEAR GOT FAITH!!! ;~)

Todd

 

 

My faith journey start like this;

 

In a galaxy far far away. no wait, wrong start ;~D

I guess my journey begins way back to my Sunday School days of my youth. Vivid images of learning the stories of how God created everything there is, The story of Adam and Eve in the garden and how the whole plan was thrown out of wack with the bite out of the forbidden fruit. How sin came into the world and has grown ever since.

I remember the other stories as well, but the story that hit home is how God had his own son, Jesus Christ, become human, grow with us, be one of us, and then DIE on the cross for our sins.

I remember the songs we all just had to learn. Yes Jesus love’s me was one of the easiest and one that is hard for some people, I have learned, just can’t seem to grasp.

Because the Bible told me so… How many wonderful things has the Bible told us that we just can’t seem to grasp?

Maybe this is the reason Jesus gave us the parable of, unless you become like a child, to be abel not to question the why, just to accept what we are taught to do!!!

More to follow in part two.

Todd

 

Faith; noun 1. Belief in God, revelation or the like; as, soundness of faith; esp, orthodoxy in theology; in a practical religious sense, trust in God.

2. Fidelity to one’s promise or allegiance to duty, or to a person; loyalty.

3. That which is believed; esp a system of religious beliefs.

4. Complete confidance, esp in someone or something open to questuions or suspicion.

Wow!, that’s from the 1956 edition.

Looking on the internet under Faith, the def is still pretty much the same.

I have intended for this site to utilize the 1st def!! ;~D …

I would hope that other migth add their own ideas about

Faith Explained.

Till next time.

Todd

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Thanks for sharing.

Todd

 

 

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