Living life with steps of faith

I've had a lot of thoughts since my last entry, a lot of things I've wanted to write about in here. But, I also want to be cautious in what I write, recognizing that this journal is not private but is part of the spectra of mass media resources available to us today. On that note, did anyone see that the TIME person of the year is us (The bloggers and information highway consumers.)? Have consumers ever received such a reward before? Sounds like great marketing on the part of the magazine. Anyway, while doing a web search I came across a web site that is collecting New Year's Resolutions. I thought it was quite interesting and decided to share it. According to 43things finding a church home is the second highest ranked resolution for this new year. Isn't that exciting! I'd like to look into what some of those blogs say in order to see what people mean when they say they want to find a church. Maybe, I'll have to do that when I have some more time. I a...

I want to be used by God to expand His kingdom, but sometimes I forget what a huge battlefield it is out there. When lives are transformed by the power of God, something happens in the spiritual realm. To be in tune to that experience, the war over souls, can be both exhilerating and exhausting at the same moment. I know who will win the battle, its obvious - God. But, to be part of it is both uniquely exciting and strangly abusive. I want souls to be saved. I want to be used in the harvesting of souls. I want to introduce people to Christ. I especially want to introduce people to Christ who come from a family line that do not yet know Him. I want God to use me as a tool to change generations in His name. When I get to heaven, I want to cry tears of joy in celebration of who is there. I know they say that there are not tears in heaven, but, I don't know how one could contain the intensive emotion of seeing a soul saved. Someday, someday. Someday, I will stand in amazemen...