Visiting family and friends in CA. Back home to Tennessee, tomorrow.
Nothing can Separate us from the Love from God.
Author: Arw27
Hi,
My name is Alan and I have been in ministry, for many years. I started out at Grace Community Church in their sports ministries, in Softball, Basketball and Semi Pro Baseball team, where I coached, led devotions, and shared my testimony on the baseball team with other teams we played. After leaving Grace, My wife Kathy and I were at Simi Valley Community Church, where we were lay pastors, and also got involved in Parenting classes called Growing Kids God's Way. The church ended up splitting and were part of the original people that helped start Cornerstone Community Church with Francis Chan and Ron Wilson. During that time, we continued in parenting classes, couples bible studies, and small groups. I became a non staff Pastor/Elder some years back and did it till I stepped down on December 31st, 2019. Nothing bad, just felt that the Lord was calling me to do something else, after 25 years at Cornerstone. Presently, I joined a band with our Homeless Ministry (PADS) and we just started a group on Friday nights, that ministers to professing believers who are going through some type of recovery. My desire, is that there will be some type of home/small church that I will lead, based on what the Lord seems to be calling me to. It is a really big step of faith, at 65 years old.
A couple other things to note. I was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and left there when I was 20 years old. My passion was baseball, and my desire, was to play professionally. I gave my life to Jesus when I was a young teenager, but lack of a consistent fellowship and some family problems led me away. I also, started letting baseball be my God.
I moved to California when I was 20, and works for an offshore drilling company for about 2 and 1/2 years and then went back to school and Cal State University where I met my wonderful wife in Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU). We were married in 1980 and Lord willing, look forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary in August. We have 3 daughters that all live close by, until my middle daughter just moved to Tennessee.
My Career, had been since I got out of college, with a degree in finance, a combination of IT, consulting, Executive Vice President, RE Broker and Loan Broker, and a short time as a VP Senior Financial Analyst with Bank of America.
Well, I hope that gives you a little glimpse into my life, and where I think the Lord is leading. Please feel free to write.
God Bless
Alan
Righteousness is given to us by our Faith in Jesus. His sacrifice makes us right with God, when we believe.
bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.20-21.NASB1995
“God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21, NIV) You are God’s righteousness. You are His goodness and rightness because of what Christ did on the cross. This was given to you, and you are called righteous by the Lord of the universe. You can live in light of the righteousness you were given. It not only allows you to approach God with confidence, but it allows you to be an ambassador to others around you. Because your righteousness is not earned but freely given through faith in Jesus, you can share this gift with others and invite them to be God’s righteousness too.
Love Your Enemies!
bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.35.NASB1995
Father, my heart is sinful and selfish. You have already shown me, the depths of your compassion, and yet this verse creates tension in my heart to do good to my enemies. I cannot do this without your Holy Spirit and your working together in me. Help me continue to grow, in this area. Amen.
Help me Lord, to Love as you loved me? I was an enemy, but your reined down Mercy on me.
bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.35.NASB1995
Father, my heart is sinful and selfish. You have already shown me, the depths of your compassion, and yet this verse creates tension in my heart to do good to my enemies. I cannot do this without your Holy Spirit and your working together in me. Help me continue to grow, in this area. Amen.
For God looks upon the Heart, for we all fail miserably, keeping the law.
bible.com/bible/100/rom.2.28-29.NASB1995
Thank you Jesus, for changing our Hearts, through the work of your Holy Spirit. May your Spirit, continue to work in us. Amen
Ezekiel 36:27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ezk.36.27.NASB1995
Jesus, the God Man is Alive and lives, that we might live our lives, through him and his Holy Spirit, that he has given to us.
bible.com/bible/100/psa.77.11-12.NASB1995
Father, just as David looked back at Israel’s deliverance from oppression, and looked forward to the coming messiah, we as Christians look back at our deliverance from sin by Jesus death and resurrection, and look forward to his second coming. May the Good News of deliverance to all who believe, go out to every living soul. May their faith in Jesus, transform them into the people you want them to be.
What is Our Motivation for Our Work
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
Colossians 3:23-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.23-24.NASB1995
Philippians 2:7 – He took Position as a Slave
From: John MacArthur Study Bible.
Vs 7emptied Himself. From this Gr. word comes the theological word “kenosis”; i.e., the doctrine of Christ’s self-emptying in His incarnation. This was a self-renunciation, not an emptying Himself of deity nor an exchange of deity for humanity (see notes on v. 6).
Jesus did, however, renounce or set aside His privileges in several areas:
1) heavenly glory—while on earth He gave up the glory of a face-to-face relationship with God and the continuous outward display and personal enjoyment of that glory (cf. Jn 17:5);
2) independent authority—during His incarnation Christ completely submitted Himself to the will of His Father (see note on v. 8; cf. Mt 26:39; Jn 5:30; Heb 5:8);
3) divine prerogatives—He set aside the voluntary display of His divine attributes and submitted Himself to the Spirit’s direction (cf. Mt 24:36; Jn 1:45–49);
4) eternal riches—while on earth Christ was poor and owned very little (cf. 2Co 8:9); and
5) a favorable relationship with God—He felt the Father’s wrath for human sin while on the cross (cf. Mt 27:46; see note on 2Co 5:21). form of a bond-servant. Again, Paul uses the Gr. word “form,” which indicates exact essence (see note on v.
6). As a true servant, Jesus submissively did the will of His Father (cf. Is 52:13, 14). the likeness of men. Christ became more than God in a human body, but He took on all the essential attributes of humanity (Lk 2:52; Gal 4:4; Col 1:22), even to the extent that He identified with basic human needs and weaknesses (cf. Heb 2:14, 17; 4:15). He became the God-Man: fully God and fully man.
A New Jerusalem….
“At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah: We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation. Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter. People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes. All the exploited and outcast peoples build their lives on the reclaimed land.”
Isaiah 26:1-6 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/isa.26.1-6.MSG
Living Waters 