2013 Draws to a close

2013 was an interesting year, full of blessings and challenges.  Sometimes we can get distracted from what is important.  Sometimes we get off track.  Lately I have been reminded that if we look too long at the past we will miss what God has for us today.  Sure history is important as we can learn many lessons from it.  But we are not called to dwell there, we are called to look forward and press on.   So as this year ends I find myself doing a little reflecting and then a lot of forward looking pondering.  What would God have us focus on for 2014.  What am I to focus on in 2014.  What is God doing that He wants me to serve Him in for 2014.  

Walk with me, be on the forward journey, read, study, be a person of the Word of God and prayerfully ask God through the power of the Holy Spirit to direct you for 2014.  Be open and obedient to our Lord Jesus.  May our lives be all about Him and His glory for 2014.

Let us press on together in all humility and obedience to our Lord Jesus.\

Pastor Bruce

The approval and acceptance of man

The desire that we have to be accepted is nothing new.  We have been seeking the approval of others since the disease of sin began in humanity.  As people we naturally seek to be liked and want the approval of others.  Yet so very often we do so while we disregard the most important acceptance and approval that exists, being accepted by God.

Here we have the example of this in the book of John, nothing new but plainly stated.  So often today people tell of how they need not be open to talk about Jesus and what He has done for them, because their life will show it.  I pray that is true for them, but most often this is used as an excuse by those who fear what people will do if they are open about their Faith.  In many ways this is a rather "faithless" reality for many.  

John 12:42, 43 ESV

"Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God."

http://bible.com/59/jhn.12.42.esv

We are not only to live a changed life because of Jesus but also we are to identify with Him first and not concern ourselves with the reality that the world will reject us.  Let us not be rejected because of our humanity, nor accepted because of it.  Rather let us be conformed to the image of our Lord Jesus and walk in fellowship with Him no matter what others think.

Will you identify yourself today with Jesus?

Preacherman

Where did the videos go?

What do you do when your technology fails?  Well I hope you continue on as best as you can.  Like at our Church FFBC in Brandon, the last few weeks the internet drops out often.  Now the techs are looking at it this week and hopefully it gets fixed.  But as the problem has been present it caused us to not have video feeds or recordings of the last few Sunday sermons.  Whether it is your internet, your IPAD, Laptop, Projector or Sound Board, if your technology dies your message must continue on.  The message is much greater than the technology we use.

God will use the message and like the many generations of Christians who preached and taught without such technology we too must be prepared to minister without them.  The message of the Gospel, the teaching of God's Word is not to be held back by our "program" crashing.

So all that being said for those of you who missed Church in the last few months we do have a link for you to access the audio files if you would like them.  I will post this same info in a few other places as we do not have the Church website updated yet with the files.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz69ajNSG55pRk1FV0ZXdkNrMXM&usp=sharing

It should be sorted in folders of year, then month and then the files should be named in dates on which they were recorded.

Lets us seek to grow together and not be restrained by our modern technology or lack of it.

Pastor Bruce

New Blog

Link to my new blog
http://ffbcpastor.blogspot.ca/2013/04/what-about-sin.html