My Online Faith Journal

     This week I started a new job with a new company.  For me, this is a huge change since I have previously been with the same company for almost 7 years.  It hasn't been a matter of just learning a new computer system, but even a new method of doing therapy, new people to call when you have a problem, new policies, new office space, new computer systems.  It is a lot to take it all at once.  Even though everyone has been really nice and supportive in this process.        One of the things that has helped me is to remember how God has seen me through other changes and tests.  There have been obstacles greater than this in the past and God moved them or helped me navigate through it before.  It reminds me of the story in Joshua 4 where God leads the people of Israel across the Jordan.  The Jordan actually parted much like the Red Sea.  And after it was over, God told them to gather 12 stones (representing the twelve tribes of Israel) and to place them in a visible place where th

"You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others." 2 Timothy 2:1-2      This morning at Green Street Baptist Church pastor Brandon Ware talked about this passage in his sermon series on how we are sent to make disciples.  He stated that the agenda for the church "involves multiplication of disciples."  Paul was encouraging this in the above passage in 2 Timothy when he told Timothy to entrust what he had heard to other reliable people.  It is the process of multiplication by each disciple in turn discipling others.       I do believe that it is one of the premises of scripture that we are to share what God says to us.  It is not meant to be something that we keep to ourselves.  This profits both us and others.  It helps us to solidify in our hearts and minds what we have learned by sharing it with ot