Russ Mclamb - Praising His Name

Praise God

First let me say thank you to all the men and women who have served and who are serving our country in our Armed Forces. Thank you for your sacrifice and dedication to our country. It's Memorial day and I wanted to thank them before I get to my post.

It's a long weekend for alot of us and what a blessed weekend it's been so far. I look forward to Saturday mornings because me and a group of friends gather at the local coffee shop here in town and we are studying through the book of Romans. It's always a great time of fellowship and study plus the coffee's pretty good too.

Sunday we joined our new church, Dellwood Baptist Church. The hand of God is on this church without a doubt. People are getting saved left and right and not just on Sunday but during the week as well. Why? Because there's a love for Jesus and they tell everyone about Him. There were 8 people saved this Sunday alone. So as I sat back Sunday evening and thought about it, what is different about Dellwood than alot of other churches. The answer was simple. It preaches and teaches the word of God. The congregation actually disciples and helps to teach new Christians and help them grow in their walk with God. It's not about special programs with fancy names, it's not about the preacher telling funny stories or being entertaining, it's not about doing things so people will think you're something your not. It's not about an "image". It's plain and simple. It's the word of God. If churches today would get back to teaching and preaching the word of God, I firmly believe we would see a change in our society. Our churches have become entertainment driven and preach this watered down, panseyfied gospel instead of driven by the true word of God. Wanna see your church grow and add to the Kingdom? Then get back to the word of God and God will bless you. It's not about nickels and noses, it's all about Christ and nothing else.

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Consequences

Do we really ever think about the consequences of our sin? Sin is rebellion against God. Sin is something as simple as telling a "little lie". God doesn't classify sin. Sin is sin. One sin is not worse than the other. The day will come when we will all stand before God and have to give an account of what we've done. Have you thought about that? How you're going to explain to God about that porn site you just visited. How you're going to explain that night in the bar when you got drunk. How you're going to explain all the things you've done, said and thought that are against God. It's something to think about. God knows everything we do and think. Try and sugar coat it to make yourself feel better all you want, in the end you'll still have to give an account to the Almighty. Think about that the next time you're planning on doing something that you know is against God.

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Running Blind

We'll as we all know that have children sometimes they do things that are, well stupid. We all did as kids. My 5 and 6 year old were outside playing and chasing each other around the yard. Then one of them comes up with the bright idea to do it with their eyes closed. Needless to say, my 6 year old daughter runs face first right into a deck post. With a bloody nose she begins screaming. She's fine, no real damage done, but she learned a valuable lesson. Don't run with your eyes closed. It got me to thinking, how many go through life with there eyes closed. Running here and there searching after the ways of this world hitting post after post after post. Open your eyes and put your trust in Jesus. Only He can lead you out of the darkness.

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Where's your loyalty

As we go through life we tend to put things in a certain priority and sometimes those priorities can get mixed up. Christ must always be first in our lives. Work, hobbies, things of this world get in the way of serving Jesus. We even put our churches before Christ. One church against another, we seem to put more concern and pride into our churches instead of into serving Christ. We've got to tear down the walls between our churches and realize that we're all suppose to serve Christ. Imagine how many more people we could reach with the gospel of Jesus Christ if we all teamed up instead of tore apart. We are all the body of Christ and should be working together. As soon as we realize this, the sooner we can quit all the backbiting and childish ways that tend to be prevalent in our churches and get down to what we're suppose to do. Now let's get over ourselves and spread the gospel. Like John the Baptist said, "He must increase and I must decrease".

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God has blessed me with three wonderful children Christina, Mary and Jake and a beautiful wife Teresa. I'm not a preacher, just an everyday guy with the desire to share Jesus Christ.

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