prayer

my prayer for you all and myself is that:
-we will take the readings we have been studying and apply them to our lives
-that God's living, breathing, active Word will become flesh in our lives
-that the apostles and martyrs we are reading about become examples of how we should live like Christ
-that the boldness these people have will be found in us, that we will have boldness to proclaim our LIVES for Christ
-that you realize that God loves you not in SPITE of your sin, but in the MIDST of your sin...He loves us imperfect sinners, He loves us as we are, He delights in our joy
-to live is CHRIST and to die is GAIN...this is what Paul writes in Philippians. I think we forget the first part, that to live a Christian life does not mean that we are dead while we are living, but that we are CHRIST while we are living.

i love you all.