I’m Such a Bad Blogger!
Man, I can’t believe that it has been so long since I’ve written anything in my pastor’s blog! I guess that shows you that I don’t find writing an easy task; I rather talk! But sitting here this afternoon, I’m re-thinking and mulling over the sermon text for Sunday, wanting to write what I’m seeing in it. The reference is Romans 1.15-17, but I’ve been doing some studying and listening to some messages on Romans lately, so I have a lot inside. Verses 16 and 17 are basically a summary of the entire book of Romans. In them God shows us that He wants to shelter anyone who believes from the “wrath to come.” Last week we heard a message on Hell that made me think about that awful destination. I don’t think we’ve preached a message like that in quite a while. (Thanks, Chad Markel!) We don’t normally think that there will be a very real and serious consequence to sin, one that each of us deserves. Yet, God is not wanting to punish us that way. He’s made a provision through believing in “the Gospel of Christ.” If God wanted to even the score, He could have simply let us have it, but He sent His Son to pay the horrific price so that humans have a choice. We can ignore His warnings and provision for escape and, in essence, choose wrath and Hell or we can be set free and become His children by adoption and escape what we deserve. We need to believe; that’s all and that’s everything. Thank you God for being so merciful! PB
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September 30th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
P.B.
You’re not a bad blogger, just a busy one. Like bible reading and the other disciplines, writing takes some time to invest in it. You’re still so new at this aspect of the tech. It will come.
Perhaps allowing yourself the freedom to write what the Lord puts on your heart to write. This is a writer’s best freedom and worst problem rolled in one, however, if you can picture who you want to write to and what you want to impart it gets easier. I’m a college grad but like you basically self taught in this arena. I’m on Squidoo.com (my name there is Anna2of5), Facebook (of course:D), Pintrest, Twitter.com, (recently added Google+, and Linked In), I also read quite a bit with subscriptions to Success, and Tabletalk. So you see like anything else there’s a lot of behind the scenes work involved- but it yeilds better content for the reader and more experience overall. Good luck, God Bless all your efforts. (He’s doing that already, Btw). Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Sincerely, Mrs. Anna Rounseville