Just Whose Is It Anyway

Have you ever thought about all that you have? Not only your "things" like car, house, clothes, food, boat, etc. but your eyes, feet, hands, heart, lung, ears; every breath, every smell. These sometimes are the things we think we have earned, deserve, or where born with, so they must be ours. Well, the fact is they are not ours. Hosea chapter 2 teaches that God can take away food, possessions, etc. because He is the one who gave them in the first place.

It's time we understand who owns everything. It is God's and it will always be God's. Just try picking up some dirt and making another one of you. Have your air supply cut off and try to get some on your own. Close your eyes and run a race. Then see what you can do without God's provision.

Talk with you soon.

Pastor Gary

On The Way Home

Well, the commercial shoot is over and all went well. They should be ready for airing in about six weeks. I'm looking forward to how God will use this to reach people. Now it's up to us at CrossPoint to do our part. Be a warm and friendly church that reaches out to our community with the love of Christ.

Have a blessed day.

Pastor Gary

Shooting Day

I am writing this blog from my motel room in Tulsa, OK waiting to depart for the shooting of our church commercials. As I write I think about many things. How my wife is doing (she had a serious head injury a couple of weeks ago), what God is doing through our church, my message for Sunday. My mind is always going 100 mph.

Last night I was reading an article on Adrian Rogerisms, thought-provoking quotes from Glenn Brooke's blog from the late Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, TN. I want to share a few with you ...

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.

If you have a Bible that's falling apart you'll have a life that's not.

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

On gossips: don't let them use your ears for garbage cans.

It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

We live in a day where a hero is a sandwich, life is a magazine, power is a candy bar, joy is a detergent, sin is a perfume, a star is an actress who's been married three times, and the real thing is a soft drink.

On salvation by works: I wouldn't trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

Have a blessed day,

Pastor Gary

A New Beginning

Today was a change of sorts for Emmanuel. We changed our church name to CrossPoint Free Will Baptist. The idea behind the name change is that the cross points to Christ. That's what we want people to see. We are a church that points people to Christ.

Tomorrow I leave for Tulsa, OK to film six television commercials that will begin showing in the downriver area in early December. Our goal is to let the unchurched and people looking for a church know we are here, a place for families, for the hurting, for the lonely.

Have a blessed day tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Pastor Gary