I Fight Like a Girl Breast Cancer Shirt from Zazzle.com
how cute are these t-shirts! what girl wouldn't look good in one or want one for VALENTINE'S DAY!? yes guys, it's comin up soon and you can buy all the girls in your life one of these "fight like a girl" shirts and support a good cause! Come on, nows the time! don't wait, you might forget and then not have a good gift!... No man should wanna be in that boat :)
your purchase of a shirt and your donation go to help Relay For Life. MMerge Ministries is joining efforts to help support and sponsor a friend of ours whose husband passed away. MMerge Ministries does not recieve anything on your purchase, it all goes to Relay For Life, helping to fight and find a cure for cancer!
To place an order go to our fb page at MMerge Inc. or Myra Jackson on fb. on just give me a call at 931-273-5802
Thanks for your support!!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
February Virtue
HONOR
a small word with profound meaning and action
"Letting someone know you see how valuable they really are." Honor.
Love each other deeply. Honor one another more than yourselves. Romans 12:10
Wow. What does that LOOK like?
We will be studying Honor this month at home and with your church family. We will work on in our home and in our community loving deeply, honoring others and letting them know how valuable they really are.
John-John got us off to a good start last week by writing a thank you note to our postal carrier. Letting him know that we appreciated him and his service to us and others. The kids also wanted to thank the snow plows and the trash men! I second that! Since moving into the city limits that has been one of the biggest blessings, having my trash picked up! I just love it!
Think of others in your life and around you that make like "easier" for you and show them HONOR!
a small word with profound meaning and action
"Letting someone know you see how valuable they really are." Honor.
Love each other deeply. Honor one another more than yourselves. Romans 12:10
Wow. What does that LOOK like?
We will be studying Honor this month at home and with your church family. We will work on in our home and in our community loving deeply, honoring others and letting them know how valuable they really are.
John-John got us off to a good start last week by writing a thank you note to our postal carrier. Letting him know that we appreciated him and his service to us and others. The kids also wanted to thank the snow plows and the trash men! I second that! Since moving into the city limits that has been one of the biggest blessings, having my trash picked up! I just love it!
Think of others in your life and around you that make like "easier" for you and show them HONOR!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Crazy Love
Friends,
This is not a new book but relatively new. Crazy Love by Francis Chan. i read it in 3 days so i know if you don't have time to read it you could at least watch the short videos on www.crazylovebook.com if you haven't already. Wow! it will get you thinking and leave you wondering!
Abundant Blessings and Eternal Hope,
Myra
This is not a new book but relatively new. Crazy Love by Francis Chan. i read it in 3 days so i know if you don't have time to read it you could at least watch the short videos on www.crazylovebook.com if you haven't already. Wow! it will get you thinking and leave you wondering!
Abundant Blessings and Eternal Hope,
Myra
Monday, January 11, 2010
Spiritual Discipline
Our Virtue for the month is Discipline. We are studying spiritual disciplines with our family and with the kids and youth at Liberty. Last night we talked about scripture memorization with the kids and it was amazing how quickly they can memorize scripture, if only we parents would take more time and help them with that. I am constantly looking for and thinking about ways to do more family ministry and less kids or youth ministry, but constantly come back to the fact that the parents must want to do it and be doing it at home. What will it take for the messed up situation in our churches to change. Discipleship starting with the Parents!
I got this email this morning from Chip Kirk and he has some great thoughts about reading the bible. What if parents would read the bible more? that would help...
I got this email this morning from Chip Kirk and he has some great thoughts about reading the bible. What if parents would read the bible more? that would help...
Soul Food: Reading the Bible
It’s no surprise that the Bible, as the saying goes, is the best selling, but least-read
book in the world. Even among committed Christians the Bible is a neglected book:
nibbled, but rarely eaten, acknowledged but unabsorbed.—R.N. Frost
Unless we discipline ourselves to get up earlier to read our Bibles, we probably won’t.
Unless we discipline ourselves to read our Bibles instead of watch TV, we probably
won’t. Unless we discipline ourselves to read our Bibles instead of surf the web, we
probably won’t. Will we, then, discipline ourselves to read our Bibles? Our answer to
that question reveals a lot about us.—Chip Kirk
Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous
and successful.—Joshua 1:8
Soul Food is a side dish of www.chipkirk.com
Monday, December 14, 2009
Should Advent be more about the 2nd coming than the 1st?
I had an interesting thought this morning as I read an article about advent on the Relevant Magazine website http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/deeper-walk/features/19167-the-final-countdown.
Should Christians get more excited during Advent and Christmas about the second coming of Christ than the First? I mean, I love to think about the first coming of Christ, the Creator of the world becoming a baby, the messiah's birth, the first worship services, etc, but that is history. As a follower of Christ, shouldn't my hope and life be more tied to the future than the past? I can learn from the past, but I'm living for the future. So maybe I should focus more on the second coming than the first during Christmas. I wonder how things would change if we started that shift? I mean do we even have a time in the year that we really celebrate or think about the return of the Messiah? Maybe that is something we should do all the time or the rest of the time, other than Christmas and Easter, but it doesn't seem like many Christians think or talk about it much.
In a society that is scheduled by the next holiday, I think it interesting that we Christians join in on so many pagan or national holidays so much more than the important events of the Church. The biggest event of all is yet to come, maybe that is why we don't celebrate it, but is certainly something to get excited about (and ready for).
Every year I ask God to show me something new about Christmas, so this year I'm focusing on the Second Advent - waiting in expectation for the return of the Messiah and the start of a whole new time and society. Of course this quickly reminds me that I need to share this hope and expectation with those who don't know or have it yet so that they will experience it too. This Christmas may we share the love of our God, that came as a baby, died as our Savior, and will Return again as the King of the ages.
On a side note, my kids are really enjoying a lego advent calendar this year where one kids gets to open a little door each morning and gets a little lego person or thing. It really helps count down the days till Christmas, just wish we could count down the days till the second coming. I guess thats the beauty of it. We don't know when so we need to think like it is today and/or in 100's of years.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Oswald's Wisdom
Q:? What is the difference b/t "interfering in other people's lives" and being the hand and feet of Christ? After reading the following devo. from Oswald Chambers, i would love to hear your comments on the balance you find b/t interfering and serving others.
"Lord, what shall this man do? . . What is that to thee(you)? Follow thou Me." John 21:21,2
One of our severest lessons comes from the stubborn refusal to see that we must not interfere in other people's lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God's order for others.
You see a certain person suffering, and you say - He shall not suffer, and I will see that he does not. You put your hand straight in front of God's permissive will to prevent it, and God says - "What is that to thee(you)?" If there is stagnation(for you) spiritually, never allow it to go on, but get into God's presence and find out the reason for it. Possibly you will find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another; proposing things you had no right to propose; advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit; your part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you all the time for the blessing of another soul.
Most of us live on the borders of consciousness - consciously serving, consciously devoted to God. All this is immature, it is not the real life yet. The mature stage is the life of a child which is never conscious; we become so abandoned to God that the consciousness of being used never enters in. When we are consciously being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, there is another stage to be reached, where all consciousness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously dependent on God.
What are your thoughts?
"Lord, what shall this man do? . . What is that to thee(you)? Follow thou Me." John 21:21,2
One of our severest lessons comes from the stubborn refusal to see that we must not interfere in other people's lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God's order for others.
You see a certain person suffering, and you say - He shall not suffer, and I will see that he does not. You put your hand straight in front of God's permissive will to prevent it, and God says - "What is that to thee(you)?" If there is stagnation(for you) spiritually, never allow it to go on, but get into God's presence and find out the reason for it. Possibly you will find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another; proposing things you had no right to propose; advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit; your part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you all the time for the blessing of another soul.
Most of us live on the borders of consciousness - consciously serving, consciously devoted to God. All this is immature, it is not the real life yet. The mature stage is the life of a child which is never conscious; we become so abandoned to God that the consciousness of being used never enters in. When we are consciously being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, there is another stage to be reached, where all consciousness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously dependent on God.
What are your thoughts?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Cooperation
November! The Holidays Begin! I love this time of year. The weather is still warm enough to enjoy outdoor time while the wind blows in the anticipation of Winter.
For our virtue study this month November is the month of Cooperation. We will have ample opportunity to study and put this virtue into practice as we rake and move leaves, continue the various house projects and prepare and welcome friends and family for the Thanksgiving Holidays.
We are also pleased to announce that Matt has accepted a position at Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church, here in McMinnville, Tn. as Christian Education Associate.
For our virtue study this month November is the month of Cooperation. We will have ample opportunity to study and put this virtue into practice as we rake and move leaves, continue the various house projects and prepare and welcome friends and family for the Thanksgiving Holidays.
We are also pleased to announce that Matt has accepted a position at Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church, here in McMinnville, Tn. as Christian Education Associate.
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