My Online Faith Journal

      One of the greatest truths of the Bible is that God loves you and me.  The Bible describes God's love towards us as beyond knowledge.  Look in Ephesians 3:17-19 "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge , that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God."       It is kinda overwhelming to start to get a grasp on how much God loves each one of us.  I was thinking to myself this morning if each believer really lived this way and believed that each person we come in contact with is deeply loved and valued by God what would that do?  Would it then require us to treat each other differently than we do now?  Honestly, I think in many cases it would require a total transformation in our attitudes and behaviors towards each other.  We might be a little

   Back when I lived in Ft.Worth, Texas I ran in a lot of races like 5K and 10K runs.  It was something I enjoyed a lot and I have been thinking about entering another one since I started running again about 5 weeks ago.  I'm not sure that I could even finish a race right now, probably not, but in a few weeks or possibly months I will be there.  It reminded me of an incident that took place in Dallas around Halloween in 1991.     I was in an event in downtown Dallas on a rainy fall morning when several hundred runners including myself took off at the gun to run a 5K race.  We were all running uphill in the rain when someone fell. With all of us bunched close together some people actually ended up getting stepped on by those behind them.  Fortunately, I didn't fall.  Imagine training all that time only to get trampled on when the gun goes off at the beginning of the race.  I would be pretty upset at getting trampled on by my fellow runners.    Stuff happens during a race. 

    So, we went to Easter morning service this morning at 11:30 am.  I don't know if they have a early service at sunrise, but I see no point in getting up that early.  We get to church and I gave my tickets to the lady at the door.  Yes, they have tickets (which are free) in order to reserve seating.      The first song in the service actually sounded like a secular song.  It was chosen because the pastor is starting a new sermon series and of course that is more important than Easter.  So, I really felt like I was in a rock concert instead of a Easter service.  About the only way you could tell is that he was a little more evangelistic than usual and a few more people than usual.     I sat there wondering to myself for about the hundredth time if this church was really appropriate for me.  It is a very modern church much like Ed Young Jr's church with spotlights everywhere and loud music.  The church is really geared towards the 20's and 30's postmodern generation