God's Answers to Life's Questions

Dear Reader,
    Life brings many questions that many times require answers that are hard to find on our own. These questions soon become a concern in our minds and if we are not careful become the very cause of perhaps confusion, fear, doubt, anger, bitterness, and much more in our lives. The Bible is where we can turn to for the answers, given to us by God to be used for our benefit and those around us. The answers to all of lifes questions can be found in the very Word of God that we have the priviledge to hold.



JEREMIAH 17:8

      Emory, Texas is where we had the privilege of being on Wednesday, October 12th, at Bright Star  Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Jerry Jackson. We were able to meet his sweet family and very talented children as we were able to see how God had blessed them with musical talents and a wonderful zeal to be used of God! It was an encouragement to me to see the excitement in their voices as they asked many question and were able to get to know them very well. After presenting our field, Pastor Jackson requested that I preach. I was able to preach a sermon entitled "Root of You", a sermon on the heart of a Christian being the very root that keeps them alive in their Christian life.

Just as the very life and very source of existance in the life of a small plant is in its root giving it the means to continue on, so is the heart of a Christian not only to live physically but to live spiritually for the Lord. Many a Christian began as a young plant, determined to serve Christ with every ounce of strength and determination within them, but as the years go by Satan begins to attack our spiritual root, the heart, that soon begins to turn its loyalty to yet another. Without the health of the root this plant will die. A Christian whose heart is not totally given to God will soon begin to see the excitment and enthusiam he once had fade away and what could had been accomplished by God through him will be gone. We have to determine to keep our root, our heart, fed with the love for God and the determination to do more for Him with our lives, if we are to live our Christian life in fulfilment of God's will.
    As a family, I pray we do all we can to exceed expectations in the service of Jesus Christ. Accomplishing the unexpected is accomplishing the expected twice over!