During this time when you are Safe at Home have you felt a little stressed and wondered why? It might be that you are getting kind of tapped out, emotionally – even socially.
Pastor Steve speaks about this in this video.
Social distancing is the catch phrase, but in our homes it might feel more like social compressing – social squishing.
The wise family creates ways to spend time alone together.
March 29, 2020
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Thank you Lead Worshipers for leading us in worship. Thanks Drew, Doug, and Travis for making the technology work well!
They say that it’s the small things….
A few weeks ago, I looked at my desk and noticed that the battery on my old S7 had expanded to the point of opening the case, making the phone unusable. I’d replaced the phone over a year earlier, so it was not an issue.
Some people would have simply disposed of the phone, but that week, I ordered a new battery (for $20) and replaced it – “just in case I might need the phone.”
That phone is the phone we now use to record our services. It has the audio jack that my newer phone does not have.
If God can provide my brain with the information it needs to prepare for something I had no idea was coming, I think he can provide all of us with what we need as we follow him.
He knows what’s coming. He knows.
In his book, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has a rather lengthy chapter titled, The Day with Others.
As he unfolds his thinking, it’s evident that he is teaching his readers how to be the Church – in whatever environment find themselves.
When I say, “how to be the church,” I am referring to experiencing God’s presence together — as friends, as a family, as a couple. It’s what we do Sundays, on Susquehanna Avenue, when we can.
Bonhoeffer is pretty straight forward in this area. He speaks of several practices that believers should enact together — as believers.
Some of those practices are…
This video speaks about some of those practices.
Had you given any thought as to how you might begin to do these things in your home during this unusual season of human history?
God might enable you to do things you’d otherwise never considered.
And such things might come with an unexpected blessing.
The Verse of the Day has value. I love getting mine from The Bible App.
But don’t confuse it with Scripture reading….
