Sunday Recap

• Had church at one of our member's home. George Barna predicts that "house churches" will be the new trend in the future. I hope not. Not that it was bad, it just seems smaller than the Gospel allows. The Gospel is too big and too powerful to be contained in one home. It may be a good place to start but it has to break out of those walls.
• They surprised me with a birthday cake.
• The owner's two dogs also attended church.
• Continued our series on "knowing God." Started with the premise that "people who know God do exploits." The more intimate we are with God, the bolder we should be in our faith. Your faith is not dead but alive and active.
  
• There are many qualities of God that we can emulate, such as love, mercy, faithfulness, etc., but at least three that are unique to Him that make Him God and ensure that we are not God. They are His omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing) and omnipresence (all-present).
• Power without wisdom would be frightening. Wisdom with out power would be useless. Wisdom and power without omnipresence would be limited. But since God has all three, we can trust Him for every situation at any time in any place.
• I spoke from Isaiah 40 on God's omnipotence. His power is proven in creation, controlled by His purposes and wisdom, dwarfs any national power, exposes false gods as the powerless frauds they are, extends over the whole universe and is active in our individual lives.
• Because He is all-powerful I can expect the miraculous. I can expect His strength when I am weak. I can expect to soar like an eagle over every circumstance. I can expect to do great things, risky things, powerful things because it is not my strength but His.