Fall Creek Christian Church

"This is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN    This is what these words mean:  Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.  Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.  Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."   Daniel 5:25-28   Judgment As the words of condemnation rumbled through my soul like a tidal wave, I found myself drowning in a sea of negative emotions ... anger, shame, regret, bitterness, guilt, and even malice if I am going to be completely honest.  After all, who are they to judge me?!  The intensity of emotional disturbance in times of personal assault can be completely consuming and paralyzing.  It is only by God's grace that we can navigate our way through to health and perspective.  We have all had people who, for whatever reason, felt the need to express their disappoinment with us.  On their grading card of self-righteousness, we flunked out.  Mo

How come we get so excited or defeated and let our emotions get so wrapped up in sports and outcomes of how our favorite teams do? I have been a long time Colts fan (1984) and this season has been discouraging but really how come we get so frustrated?  This weekend was a nice break I admit that as they didn’t lose, of course they didn’t play however my Boilers did manage to provide me a football loss and mens basketball loss just to make sure I didn’t forget that feeling of defeat. If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I have been laughing at myself that I actually think of these things and that a win can make me jump off the coach and throw my hands in the air and a loss can aggravate us and put us in a bad mood.  It disappoints me in what will make me jump up off the coach or out of my seat and raise my hands in victory about or should I say in what I don’t jump out of my seat and raise my hands in VICTORY FOR. 1 Corinthians 15:57 "But thanks be to God! He gives us the vict

"At that time, his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, 'Once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.'  The words, 'once more' indicate the removing of what can be shaken -- that is, created things -- so that what cannot be shaken may remain.  Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our 'God is a consuming fire.'"      Hebrews 12:26-29    Unshaken I have a family of amusement park junkies.  It is simply not possible to satisfy their thirst for wild rides.  The faster, the twistier, the crazier, the better.  Their favorite time of the day is right about closing time when the crowd has thinned out enough for them to ride the rides over and over and over again.  Me ... not so much.  Motion sickness has relegated me to the cheering fan leaning on the fence as they fly by upside down "just one more time"

Lately the TV shows that I used to watch as a kid have been on my mind and I have found myself looking for clips from some of them on YouTube just to take that little walk down memory lane. The one that I continually find myself talking about is the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN as Steve Austin was just so cool to me and I can remember needing to be home every Sunday night in time to see it as there wasn’t a way to record the show if you missed it then you had to wait for re-runs.  For those of you who are like "what show is he talking about?" please click this link: http://youtu.be/HofoK_QQxGc watch and then finish up reading. :) What was it about Steve Austin that made me love that show so much and run around the house pretending to be Steve Austin?  Was it the cool sound that came on when he was running, jumping, throwing something with is bionic arm?   I think it was the fact that he looked like an average guy that had some bad luck (accident as an astronaut) and