Fall Creek Christian Church

"Then Mary took a twelve ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus' feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance. But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him, said, 'That perfume was worth a year's wages. It should have been sold and the money given to the poor.' Not that he cared for the poor -- he was a thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples' money, he often stole some for himself." John 12:3-6 I vividly remember the first time I put on glasses. The detail. The clarity. It was truly a moment. Green and brown blurs were now trees with individual leaves. Signs were no longer red and white or yellow and black splotches. They were stop signs and yield signs. Vision is such an amazing part of our physical creation. Sadly, it can fade or even be lost. Visits to vision professionals help us keep our eyesight sharper and for as long as possible. Ou...

"The ones who do the planting or watering aren't important, but God is important because he is the one who makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work as a team with the same purpose. Yet they will be rewarded individually, according to their own hard work. We work together as partners who belong to God. You are God's field, God's building -- not ours." I Corinthians 3:7-9 One of my worst dad moments came when the kids were little. They had decided, with mom's blessing, to uproot a corner of the yard and plant a garden. I, embarrassingly, proved the saying "people get down on what they're not up on." Caught unprepared, I said, "I work hard to mow, trim, and fertilize this grass and I don't want it torn up." It didn't matter that this a great idea -- harmless, fun, and positive. "No garden!", I declared. In so doing, I missed out on an amazing opportunity to feed and water their natural cur...

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life."  Proverbs  13:12   A friend recently shared that he had been praying for something for thirty years. He earnestly pleaded with God for a breakthrough in some unbearable circumstances. For all those years, God stayed his hand. His heart was sick, but unmoved from a place of complete trust in God. When all seemed lost, when it appeared more foolish than faithful to keep on praying, God stepped in and moved the mountain. The writer of today's proverb knew the heartbreak of unmet hopes. Those moments we want something so bad we ache and it just doesn't happen leaving us shattered trying to pick up the pieces.  He knew also the invigoration of realized dreams. The pure  exhilaration of a realized vision, calling, deeper than deep yearning that takes us to heights we didn't even know existed.  Interestingly, both  share the center stage of this crazy thing call...

"For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes. The sins of a wicked man hold him captive; they are ropes that catch and hold him. He will die for lack of self control; he will be lost because of his incredible foolishness." Proverbs 5:22-23 While attempting to make the perfect cast, I heard an unusual buzzing sound coming from my reel. It was followed by a stumble producing yank as the lure failed to launch. I looked down to see that my line was in a terrible tangled mess. I had failed to exam my loop-filled reel before I reared back and attempted to cast the lure a country mile. My failure to examine my reel led to a massive snarl of line. There was nothing left to do but cut the line and start over. We're told in our verses for the day that nothing escapes God's examination. He makes 20-20 vision look like cement goggles. The good, the bad, and the ugly ... he sees it all. We don't. We do, however, tangle ourselves u...

"Jesus therefore answered and was saying to them,'Truly, truly, I say to to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." John 5:19 Sight is a marvelous sense. Our eyes are the lamp of our body. The intricacy and complexity of the human eye has been well documented. It's ability to quickly focus, to adjust to various levels of light, and to distinguish colors and patterns is one of God's special gifts to us. Good eyesight, however, does not always equal good vision. Good vision has far more to do with our heart, mind, and will than it does with the quality of our eyesight. As many false eyewitness accounts reveal, the eye will see what the heart, mind and will want to see and/or what they have prepared the eye to see. We've all heard the expressions, they have a "trained" eye or a "real eye for that", meani...