Minister’s Monthly Minute

From our Minister, Howard Faerber

Dear Christian Friends,

The Bible reading for July is:
Week beginning July 4: Romans 14 – I Corinthians 2
Week beginning July 11: I Corinthians 3 – 7
Week beginning July 18: I Corinthians 8 – 12
Week beginning July 25: I Corinthians 13 – II Corinthians 1

Once again, I encourage you to pick up a Lookout each Sunday. The article each week by Bob Russell is always outstanding as well as many other helpful articles from week to week.

I came across some quotations in the past several months I want to share with you in this month’s article. These quotations are not related topic wise, but are all worthy of consideration.

From Og Mandino: Work as though you would live forever and live as though you would die today. From Curtis Rickinson: It is God’s will to make us like Himself, but if He should override our wills, it would have the opposite effect. For God has a will of His own, and to have man like Himself, man must also have a will. Thus for God to arbitrarily defeat our wills would be to destroy us: without wills we could not be like Him at all. So of His own will He draws us to Himself by the word of truth.

From an article in the August 9, 2009, Christian Standard by David A. Fiensy: Our problem is we seek to find Christ in our vigor, but he often comes to us instead in suffering. We pursue him in success; we find him in defeat. We desire to have him meet us in exaltation; but he is frequently at the end of humiliation. We assume following Him will mean gain; He is our Lord in loss. We want Him with abundance, but He speaks to us in poverty. We long to be His friend in the resurrection, but in this life, He offers us the cross….The God of the cross speaks to us, for example, in the hiddenness of illness. We wonder why there is no miracle, but find instead, in God, a new strength to believe and to live.

By the way, I hope you will read the article in the July 4, 2010, Christian Standard by the title “A Religious Man for President.” It is a two-page summary of the life of James A. Garfield – Christian church preacher, college president, U.S.A. congressman, Major General in the Union army, and 20th President of the United States of America.

Best Wishes,

Howard Faerber, Minister

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