Walking with Jesus

I work at United Supermarkets , and family owned grocer of 50 stores here in Texas. I'm an Assistant Customer Service Manager. I interact with customers and make sure the store runs smoothly. Most of the time I like my job. There's nothing really unusual about that. I also schedule and lead Orientations for new Team Members: I talk with them and lead them through some videos. One of the main speakers in these videos is Matt Bumstead, great-grandson of the company's founder and current co-president. During my last Orientation class, a comment he says struck me, and I intended to write about it, but forgot until I had another class today. Matt talked about doing work, serving others, and living life as 'a faithful response to God.' Isn't that a great idea? I certainly want my life to be a faithful response to God: day by day, choice by choice, minute by minute... I want to trust in the Lord, wait upon His leading, follow in the shadow of his cross, and live my li...

I had a long weekend this weekend, and I put it to use. We have a secondary building behind our house, and we're trying to improve it. This was a big weekend, because it was the weekend for plumbing and electricity. I really like this sort of work, especially since I don't have to do it all the time. We are building an extra living space, and as I worked I listened to sermons by Don Finto , Asher Intrater , and Brian Wade . And, I was challenged as I worked to focus on God. Normally, I think about the future a lot. I wonder where we'll live in a year. I think about my calling. I plan for tomorrow. I pray for Christ's return. But, this weekend I didn't think much about the years ahead. Rather, I enjoyed each day, knowing I was accomplishing my goals for the day, knowing my Olivia was loving and missing me as she visited with my mom at Possum Kingdom, and knowing that my Heavenly Father is at work even when I'm not worried about it. Now, after the weekend, its tim...

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Being convinced that there is one God, that He is the maker of all things, that He is holy and above reproach, that He for love of Humanity has revealed Himself as God by His Spirit and through the Inspired books of the Christian Scriptures, that He in the character of Jesus the Christ died to restore fallen and sinful Humanity to Himself by His Sacrifice and rose in triumph over Death, and that said God will hastily return to judge both the living and the dead, wherein all Humanity both believing and disbelieving shall appear bodily before His throne to face eternal determination regarding the acceptance or rejection of Jesus as Lord and Savior during their lifetimes, it is fitting that His Body, the church, being grafted into the Root of Jacob, should reconsider itself: whether it is living fruitfully according to the Spirit of Christ. In consideration of this question, it is necessary to consider at least Three elements of our existence as those who lay claim to the Treasures of a R...

Have you ever had the desire to write, to share you views, ideas, insights, and thoughts, without really knowing what it was you wanted to say? There’s so much going on in the world today…so many possible topics…where does one begin? I’ll start in the beginning… “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 These are such wonderfully familiar words, but what do they mean? For one thing, we’re reading a translation. How precise is it? One of the first things I learned in my Hebrew class at Hardin-Simmons was that there is no “the” in the Hebrew of this verse. Most translations include it, except, interesting enough, the English translation done by the Jewish Publication Society, which reads, “When God began to create heaven and Earth—“ There are other translations as well. This one issue aside, the text we generally hear is accurate enough, and the meaning of the text remains virtually unchanged. God preexisted creation and made creation from the sta...