Does pain have value?
In his book Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth, Samuel Chand suggests that pain can teach us things.
Sunday morning’s message (4/19/20) begins a series where we’ll consider that pain may be a teacher that comes with its own curriculum.
And that curriculum is valuable.
The Thursday Men’s Prayer Group went well tonight.
This is church.
It was good to hear how God was working in our different lives.
This is church.
We talked about things like changes in business and working, being productive, overcoming loneliness, stress, family members, growing close to God, being close to family, managing schedules, serving God, being healthy emotionally and spiritually and physically.
This is church.
We discussed helpful ideas.
This is church.
We shared good advice.
This is church.
And we prayed.
This is church.
If any guys are interested in joining us, contact Pastor Steve or Josh.
April, 2020
After an extensive tour of the United States, German pastor and theologian Helmut Thielicke was asked what he saw is the greatest defect among American Christians. He replied, “They have an inadequate view of suffering.” (Philip Yancey in Where Is God when it Hurts?)
This is a sobering suggestion.
And if it’s true, we probably ought to address it.
This Sunday marks the beginning of a new sermon series viewing pain as a “substitute teacher”.
Are there lessons we can learn through suffering that would be of benefit to us – things we could not discover apart from pain?
This series came to my mind several weeks ago as I was reading Samuel Chan’s book, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth. It appears it might be a timely topic. In the the next several weeks, I hope to flesh out five specific lessons from Chand’s chapter, You Gotta Love It.
Pray that the Holy Spirit will use this series to communicate biblical concepts that will help us view our lives and the events that fill them from the perspective God would desire.
My buddy and I have this ritual. I often ask him if he’d like to go for coffee. He always replies, “I don’t drink coffee.” Then I always say, “It’s not about the coffee!”
Then we go for coffee.
One of the problems of being #SafeAtHome is the disconnectedness we feel. It’s hard not to be together with friends, eating pizza, fishing, exercising, shopping…. We’ve probably all become aware that it isn’t the pizza or the fishing or the working out or the shopping that was important. It was the friendship. It was being together.
It’s not about the coffee.
The challenge we all face these days is knowing HOW to connect. How can we do that?
That’s what this video addresses.
Can you think of ways to get together with your brothers and sisters in Christ and “spur them on” while remaiing #SafeAtHome?
Sure you can! So get to it!!! 🙂
These days, you might find it hard to keep up with what is going on in your church family. We’re working hard to make that as natural as possible.
One tool you might use is the Curwensville Alliance Church App.
In just over three minutes, you can discover the features of our app.
As you can see, the app offers you several advantages:
I encourage you to give it a try, if you’re not already using it.
Find it here:
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