Great study this (my first) year, the book of Isaiah. My understanding is next year will be the Acts of the Apostles. Anyway, I have really enjoyed BSF. It was hard to get into the strict and streamlined format, but it is meant to get you into the Word daily and to figure out answers for yourself, not to be spoonfed any answers. This week we studied the "Little Gospel" Isaiah 53. As we studied it I remembered my Dad. He memorized this passage and recited it in church one year long ago. After he died I wanted to honor him somehow so I memorized it too and recited it in church last Easter. This week as we pored over it in BSF, I realized that having memorized it, I was better able to actually study it and remember phrases and sentences. This truly enhanced my ability to understand the passage. I have heard about people who memorize whole passages, whole books of the Bible, not just merely as a feat of "look what I did," but rather, to really immerse the self into the Scriptures. To really have that buried deep inside. When tough times come, the passages, having been rooted down into the mind and heart, get called up and can help one to bear fruit (blossom) at that difficult time.
The AWANA program at churches is a great start to this. Kids get the Word buried into their hearts at an early age. Years and years later those words can bear fruit in lives. Praise God.
"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him; there was nothing in his appearance that we would desire Him. He was bruised for our transgressions; crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that was meant for us was put on Him; and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned each one to his own way, and the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all." .....He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. ....by oppression and judgment He was taken away...and who can speak of his descendants? He was cut off from the land of the living. ........Yet.....it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. ... and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and will prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand."
The Word of the Lord is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. It is powerful.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Back On!
G'day.....back on the blog after a lengthy absence. Short posting today to get myself reacquainted with this site an' stuff.....
Today I am promoting our church's "Run for the Rug" campaign. We are asking folks to participate in the Tallmadge Memorial Day 5K and Fun 1-Mile Run, as we are raising funds for carpet for our youth room and nursery areas. (Oh! Better tell the church's name! Tallmadge Alliance Church, Tallmadge Ohio!!)
Erica Smith and I are starting a get-ready class; this will begin the first Saturday in April. We'll go for one hour (I think it starts at 9:30 am) and this class will hopefully assist us in gaining confidence and endurance to run the 5K. (The class I took two years ago for this was called "Couch to 5K" if that tells you anything about me!!!)
Next posting, I'll tell you about my first 5K experience. What a joke!! I did survive it though.
p.s. If anyone needs a laugh (and I needed one last night), go to the library and pick up past issues of Consumer Reports. It's a good magazine but the reading can be tedious, especially all those rankings with the red dots. Whoa! Need my glasses for those! Anyway I'm not saying, read the magazine, (but read it if you so desire). Instead I'm saying...... go to the back page of the magazine as they have product "bloopers". People send in pictures of product packaging, advertisements, etc., with all kinds of errors and weird stuff. It had me in stitches last night. Tom said "you and I don't have exactly the same sense of humor" when I showed him what I was cackling about and he went, "huh".
Anyway one of my favorites is the picture of the "black hole award". This is when you buy a box of something in the store like pasta or healthy bars and you open up the package (good-sized box) and there lo and behold in the wayyyyy bottom is five small healthy bars or some pasta or something and the rest of the package is just......air.
My next favorite is the "complete salad" concept. The package will say "contains one complete meal" and it's some kind of big salad thing in a package, complete with bacon bits, cheese shred, croutons, dressing in a packet, plastic bowl, some chicken cut up for you........only read the fine print and it says "Add salad." Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The last one was touting the "Oregon Department of Educaton" ...."aren't you tired of incompetant educateors" or something like that. We were like, uh, yeah, we are tired of those.
More later......"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; new every morning; great is thy faithfulness, O Lord; great is thy faithfulness." Love, Lisa
Today I am promoting our church's "Run for the Rug" campaign. We are asking folks to participate in the Tallmadge Memorial Day 5K and Fun 1-Mile Run, as we are raising funds for carpet for our youth room and nursery areas. (Oh! Better tell the church's name! Tallmadge Alliance Church, Tallmadge Ohio!!)
Erica Smith and I are starting a get-ready class; this will begin the first Saturday in April. We'll go for one hour (I think it starts at 9:30 am) and this class will hopefully assist us in gaining confidence and endurance to run the 5K. (The class I took two years ago for this was called "Couch to 5K" if that tells you anything about me!!!)
Next posting, I'll tell you about my first 5K experience. What a joke!! I did survive it though.
p.s. If anyone needs a laugh (and I needed one last night), go to the library and pick up past issues of Consumer Reports. It's a good magazine but the reading can be tedious, especially all those rankings with the red dots. Whoa! Need my glasses for those! Anyway I'm not saying, read the magazine, (but read it if you so desire). Instead I'm saying...... go to the back page of the magazine as they have product "bloopers". People send in pictures of product packaging, advertisements, etc., with all kinds of errors and weird stuff. It had me in stitches last night. Tom said "you and I don't have exactly the same sense of humor" when I showed him what I was cackling about and he went, "huh".
Anyway one of my favorites is the picture of the "black hole award". This is when you buy a box of something in the store like pasta or healthy bars and you open up the package (good-sized box) and there lo and behold in the wayyyyy bottom is five small healthy bars or some pasta or something and the rest of the package is just......air.
My next favorite is the "complete salad" concept. The package will say "contains one complete meal" and it's some kind of big salad thing in a package, complete with bacon bits, cheese shred, croutons, dressing in a packet, plastic bowl, some chicken cut up for you........only read the fine print and it says "Add salad." Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The last one was touting the "Oregon Department of Educaton" ...."aren't you tired of incompetant educateors" or something like that. We were like, uh, yeah, we are tired of those.
More later......"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; new every morning; great is thy faithfulness, O Lord; great is thy faithfulness." Love, Lisa
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