Comments on: Fortunate http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:43:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: John Lane http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-41 John Lane Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:29:42 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-41 Yup. We are but "Jars of Clay" Chipped, fragile and cracked. What a great opportunity to let God's love and power shine through us. I read something today that reminded me of your writing. About how we.... "I" ....try to dress up my Jar of Clay to make it look better, but I'm still fragile and chipped, but still a vessel He can & wants to fill. Our weakness is His opportunity. Thank God He accepts our weakness and failure, and even has a perfect plan designed for each of us. Yup. We are but “Jars of Clay” Chipped, fragile and cracked. What a great opportunity to let God’s love and power shine through us. I read something today that reminded me of your writing. About how we…. “I” ….try to dress up my Jar of Clay to make it look better, but I’m still fragile and chipped, but still a vessel He can & wants to fill. Our weakness is His opportunity. Thank God He accepts our weakness and failure, and even has a perfect plan designed for each of us.

]]> By: dougehrgott http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-40 dougehrgott Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:14:57 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-40 Thanks Mary. Your insight adds great dimension to my thoughts Blessings doug I know a sign guy Thanks Mary. Your insight adds great dimension to my thoughts
Blessings
doug
I know a sign guy

]]> By: Mary Boothby http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-39 Mary Boothby Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:13:52 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-39 Since I have been involved w/Brookside, my walk w/God has deepened. Every week I see the bankrupt in spirit, injured and mourning, truly arrested, and those who chose to walk away from God. I have also witnessed God's healing in so many. One Sunday, Alphonso asked, @ the end of his sermon, if anyone wanted to stand and ask for prayer. One that did stand stated that she had fallen back into the drug life and needed prayer. She STOOD, in front of all her neighbors, family, friends - crying out - opened honest 'heart cry' - unafraid of any judgement those of us may have. Talk about a God moment! Many there felt her pain. Drugs are not just a Brookside problem. Sin is not just a Brookside problem. How would this outward plea be received @ other churches? Would we have to remind each other 'those w/o sin, cast the first stone' ? Some choose to keep their sin in darkness and think no one knows - God knows - and no healing can take place until you allow God's light to shine on it, so the darkness of sin will run. Let's get the sign!! Since I have been involved w/Brookside, my walk w/God has deepened. Every week I see the bankrupt in spirit, injured and mourning, truly arrested, and those who chose to walk away from God. I have also witnessed God’s healing in so many. One Sunday, Alphonso asked, @ the end of his sermon, if anyone wanted to stand and ask for prayer. One that did stand stated that she had fallen back into the drug life and needed prayer. She STOOD, in front of all her neighbors, family, friends – crying out – opened honest ‘heart cry’ – unafraid of any judgement those of us may have. Talk about a God moment! Many there felt her pain. Drugs are not just a Brookside problem. Sin is not just a Brookside problem. How would this outward plea be received @ other churches? Would we have to remind each other ‘those w/o sin, cast the first stone’ ? Some choose to keep their sin in darkness and think no one knows – God knows – and no healing can take place until you allow God’s light to shine on it, so the darkness of sin will run. Let’s get the sign!!

]]> By: dougehrgott http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-38 dougehrgott Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:54:43 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-38 The student has become my teacher once again. Thanks KPaul for keeping it real. The student has become my teacher once again.
Thanks KPaul for keeping it real.

]]> By: kpaul http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-37 kpaul Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:03:28 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-37 We have a ministry @ our church called "Celebrate Recovery." A young woman recently visited this ministry and noticed something about the people who were in attendance...what did she notice? She was curious why she hadn't seen this before...hmmmm. Ironically she even claimed she wanted whatever they had...was it the addiction that she was talking about? A friend kindly replied to her..."trust me you don't want what we all have" To a certain extent I agree with my friend who was referring to a hurt, habit, or hangup. But I had the priviledge of sharing with him what I believe this young woman was noticing. See, unfortunately I sometimes think we have made church so neat and clean with programs, schedules and agendas, that we miss the purposeful messiness of Jesus' awesome message. Frankly, I can't seem to find anything neat and tidy about the ministry of Jesus. So what happens when a bunch of believers come together to talk and work through the mess of life...Jesus shows up and walks through it with us. I guess when we slow down long enough to read the real signs of people's lives we learn that we all fit into one of those categories, we just need to quite trying to act like we have it all together and walk along side each other and most importantly Jesus. What if wer're the signs God wants to use but wer'e moving so fast no one can get a chance to read them. I wonder what my sign says? We have a ministry @ our church called “Celebrate Recovery.” A young woman recently visited this ministry and noticed something about the people who were in attendance…what did she notice? She was curious why she hadn’t seen this before…hmmmm. Ironically she even claimed she wanted whatever they had…was it the addiction that she was talking about? A friend kindly replied to her…”trust me you don’t want what we all have” To a certain extent I agree with my friend who was referring to a hurt, habit, or hangup. But I had the priviledge of sharing with him what I believe this young woman was noticing. See, unfortunately I sometimes think we have made church so neat and clean with programs, schedules and agendas, that we miss the purposeful messiness of Jesus’ awesome message. Frankly, I can’t seem to find anything neat and tidy about the ministry of Jesus. So what happens when a bunch of believers come together to talk and work through the mess of life…Jesus shows up and walks through it with us. I guess when we slow down long enough to read the real signs of people’s lives we learn that we all fit into one of those categories, we just need to quite trying to act like we have it all together and walk along side each other and most importantly Jesus.
What if wer’re the signs God wants to use but wer’e moving so fast no one can get a chance to read them.

I wonder what my sign says?

]]> By: Shelly http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-36 Shelly Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:21:42 +0000 http://dougehrgott.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/blessed/#comment-36 WOW! I really do have some catching up to do! WOW! I really do have some catching up to do!

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