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“Great Day” Saturday 05/04/2024
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The Chapel Quotes
“How are you, REALLY? The church should be the place where we can be the most honest about how we’re doing when it comes to our mental health. Mental illness has been demonized in our world. Are you your own best friend or are you your own worst enemy? When you begin to be overwhelmed by despair and darkness and struggle you begin to believe you’re all alone. You begin to forget you are a child of God. You forget who you are and whose you are. God is still the remedy and the refuge.”
“The God of the universe wants your attention. He has called us to be a community that cares for one another, that’s transparent and supports each other. The best way to live life is to live it transparently. We get stuck in our own head. It takes eleven years for someone to come out of their struggle. Your brain is a super computer. Worry is focusing on something that’s never happened. Never worry alone, worry with other people. We all have value. Do you have enough value to get help to get healthy? Do you have enough value to do whatever it takes to get healthy, to live your life on purpose and not by accident? The best way to self care is to help others. The hope of the world is Jesus, and those who believe in Him want to be part of the remedy.”
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“Christian Stylings In Ivory” by composer-musician Don Krueger
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Devotion 05/05/2024
Our Devotion: “Continuous Love” is by Jessica Smith of Beavercreek, Ohio who studied professional writing at Taylor University.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 5: 11 (NIV)
One day, I walked into the kitchen, snatched the television remote, and changed the channel from what my mother was watching without asking her. She paused in her task and looked up at me and told me that she loved me, and she also told me how beautiful I was to her, then went back to doing her work. Being slightly confused by the random statement, I asked her what was wrong with her. She said, “I just love you for you, Jeanette.” I thought that she was doing some kind of reverse psychology to make me turn the channel back. “No, really, Mom, what is wrong?” “Jeanette, I have learned to appreciate you for you. Even if sometimes you are a little annoying, I still love you.”
I smiled at her and flipped the television station to what it was previously on. I already knew she loved me. However, hearing her say it and feeling her truly mean it was comforting. I knew that she said it because she meant it and not just because she wanted to watch her favorite soap opera.
PRAYER: Dear God, please let me know and feel Your never–ending love in my life. Let me appreciate the fact that You care for me even though I do not deserve it. In Your Loving name, I pray. Amen.
Book Review 05/01/2024
This Book Review is by Elizabeth Hartmann, a professional writing major at Taylor University.
Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storm, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas.
By Leslie Leyland Fields
NavPress, PB, 234 pages
“Follow me.” How will you answer? Jesus’ words cut deep, changing lives. Following Jesus looks different for everyone. For the disciples it meant dropping their nets and abandoning their fishing boats, but for Leslie Leyland Fields, 2,000 years later, it meant she had to move to Alaska, pick up fishing nets, and learn to sail on stormy seas. What God called one away from, he called another to embrace.
Crossing the Waters puts you, the reader, in a wildly rocking boat buffeted by waves of doubt, fear, and trials. Salt water stings your cheeks, and the smell of fish and kelp clogs your nostrils as Fields whizzes you around on adventures from the oceans of Alaska to the Sea of Galilee. The questions of how you drop everything and immediately follow Christ and how you reconcile the tragedies and suffering of this world with God’s goodness are addressed in this memoir. But when the thunder crackles across the sky and the wind whips the waters into leaping waves, committing to follow Christ through the storms of life becomes more difficult than ever.
In this creative memoir Fields uses her experiences in commercial fishing to give a fresh look at the motivation and truth behind biblical miracles, such as bursting nets, stormy seas, and even walking on water. She re-imagines biblical scenes, examining Peter stepping out onto the waves, discussing the disciples leaving their nets, and asking why they were so quick to doubt. She views these familiar passages in a new, often contrasting light. But the angle she uses to look at the gospels is not limited to seaweed and salmon, for she also uses Hebrew words and culture to explain the trials of following Christ. From standing on the banks of the greasy, polluted Jordan River to facing the thrashing waves of the icy Pacific, Fields shares the dramatic way water changes lives as she grapples with following Jesus.
The author uses a hefty amount of strong verbs. Her vivid descriptions slam you into the middle of scenes where you can almost experience the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the surroundings and feel her emotions. There were a few grammatical errors and some of the author’s transitions from Israel to Alaska were difficult to follow, but overall the writing was solid.
Christian women forty years and older will especially enjoy this book because the author often shares her struggles as her children grew up and left to make their own way in the world. Because this book deals with modern-day commercial fishing, which is a predominantly male business, men might also enjoy the way this book explores the slimy, rugged, smelly part of both life and fishing. However, any folks who have struggled with doubts or wondered what following Jesus looks like in their own lives will glean insight from Fields’s experiences.
No matter what sea you pull them from, fish are still fish. In the same way, the truth of the gospels has impact today. Crossing the Waters gives a fresh view on the gospels. Who better to write about the fishermen who followed Jesus than someone who is in the fishing business herself? Every chapter is an adventurous devotional that feeds life-giving truth to hungry souls, just as Jesus fed the thousands with fish and bread.
Each chapter starts with a selection of verses from one of the gospels relating to the theme of the chapter. To plunge deeper into the ideas explored in this memoir, there is a 36-page study guide included in the back of the book with outlines on how it can be used for personal and group Bible studies.
Review used by permission of Evangelical Church Library Association (ECLA)
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