10 Tweets & 2 Links

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 Tweets: Rule of Life: God in My Everything, “Eating, Exercising, Playing, Sleeping”

1/ When it comes to ordinary stuff, the Bible makes one thing very clear: There is no ordinary with God.

2/ Purity Laws made the Jews outwardly distinct & taught that even the ordinary belonged to God

3/ Every time they dressed, ate, had sexual intercourse, worked the land...they thought about God & their identity as his people

4/ Jesus fulfills the purity & ceremonial laws. We no longer keep them. Does this mean the ordinary stuff of life doesn’t matter to God?

5/ God owns it all. Our very bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit (if we belong to him).

6/ Everything is a matter of stewardship. God owns everything. And he personally cares about the smallest details of our lives.

7/ Bring glory to God in everything in our ordinary lives—eating, sleeping, playing, exercising.

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9/ Counter neglect in these things with stewardship.

10/ Counter obsession in these things with worship.

A couple of helpful links:

• First Place for Health - Check out the info on this group that meets at Five Oaks here. New session beginning in early April.
• Mike Cosper on how to apply the gospel to dieting in "Grace motivated...dieting?"

10 Tweets

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 Tweets, "Bringing it Home," Rule of Life: God in My Everything, Deuteronomy 6:4-7,20-24

1/ I don't think I've worked hard enough to convince parents that their kids live forever.

2/ What "systems" (rules) do you have in place to keep Christ at the center in your home life and parenting?

3/ God's not interested in outward compliance; he wants wholehearted devotion. From you & your kids. Go for the heart.

4/ Going for the heart doesn't discard the importance of the mind and truths about God.

5/ Heart = Inner being; Soul = Entire person; Might = physical, economical, social strength. All of you and all you have.

6/ "These words...shall be on your heart." God's people will not be defined by rule-keeping but by our wholehearted devotion.

7/ Jewish saying that if your teacher and your parent are drowning, save the teacher first...of course, the parent is to be the teacher.

8/ For teaching our kids, leverage transitions (Deut 6:7)

9/ The competing versions of the good life are communicated through stories. We have a better story. Tell a better story.

10/ Deut 6:20...And when your son asks you... The story is the primary way of catechizing. Do you, personally, have a story of God's grace?