Blanket Project 2010

Blanket Project 2010 is a movement of people seeking to extend hope “to the least of these.” Our main goal for the evening is to collect blankets to distribute to the homeless in Dallas. We are partnering with several organizations that are already making a difference that will provide you opportunities to get involved. The night will bring food, fellowship, and more…. Admission to the event is a blanket. Please send this out to everyone you know. You won’t want to miss this evening!!! There will be more details to come…..STAY TUNED

Updates 1/3/2010

Time: 7:00pm

When: Jan 23, 2010

Place:
Uptown Salon
3549 Grapevine Mills Parkway
Grapevine, TX 76051

Who will be there:

• Sower of Seeds
• Keith Peeler Photography

Uptown Salon will be giving away a $25 gift certificate per person that donates a blanket. The gift certificate is for Timeless Med Spa.

• Follow Blanket Project on Twitter: @blanketproject
• Follow Sower of Seeds on Twitter: @SOSintl @triple_7
• Follow Keith Peeler on Twitter: @keithpeeler

2010..the last 10 years

I can’t believe how fast time flies! I started to ponder on the last 10 years of my life. It’s crazy how a sovereign God can redeem someone like me. I thought back the past 10 years of who i was and how much has changed since 2000. I am almost 31 years old and thankful for the work God has done in my heart.

Who was I?

• I was a man who was full of anger and hatred. (ESV Mark 7:21-23)
  
• I was a man who was caught up in drugs and violence.
• I was a man who didn’t care. (ESV Psalm 10:4)
  
• I was a man who was prideful.( ESV Psalm 10:4)
  
• I was a man who didn’t mind causing pain in someone’s life.
• I was a man who was good at making people feel fear.
• I was a man who had a lot of hurts from the past and held unforgiveness tightly in my heart. (ESV John 20:23)
• I was a man given over to my desires and flesh. (ESV Eph. 2:3, ESV Rom 1:24)
  
• I am totally depraved and couldn’t save myself.

Then something happened and God showed His glory to me. For some reason God wanted to save me from myself. I still wondered why. Why God, would you want to save me? Why would you want to redeem a person like me, that deserves nothing? Why would you choose me and pick me out of the crowd to be redeemed?

The only response I got was “I love you!”

Why God would you love me?? I felt everyone else walked out on me-why would you stay? Again I heard, “I love you!”

It was that point, on July 13, 2007, that my heart changed. It was that point that I wanted to live differently. It was that point I wanted to be different from the world!!

Who I am!

• I am a son! Adopted into the family of God. (ESV Gal. 4, ESV Rom. 1:1-4)
• I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb! (ESV Gal. 3:13, Gal. 3:26-28)
  
• I am a saint! (ESV Col. 1:12, ESV 1 Cor. 1:2)
• I am made righteous and holy because of Him (ESV Eph. 4:24)
• I am sanctified by Him (ESV Heb. 10:10,14)

In other words…..

I couldn’t save myself! I couldn’t do anything to free myself from the bondages of sin! I didn’t do anything of my own will!

It’s all about Him.

My life does not belong to me.

My life belongs to Him.

My life is about Him.

My God is first in all things.

He is the Redeemer, Restorer, Sanctifier, only One, that can fix all things.

I love my God with all my heart! Lord search my heart out! (ESV Psalm 139:23-24)

May 2010 be devoted to you Lord!

Christ is All,

~Michael

Who am I in Christ?

How many of us walk in the past? What do I mean by that? I mean how many of us still hold on to things that happened in the past? I struggled with this alot and really just got alot of freedom in this area. How did I do it? I simply found out what it means to be in Christ. See God already did all the work with us. He forgave us, reconciled us, and redeemed us. We just need to take a step and strip off the clothes of the past and put on the clothes of Jesus! ESV Gal. 3:26-27

List below is all about who we are in Christ.  Hope this will bring some freedom!

I am a/the…………….

• salt of the earth (Matt. 5:13)
• light of the world (Matt 5:14)
• child of God (John 1:12)
• part of the vine (John 15:1,5)
• slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18)
• a saint (Eph. 1:1, 1 Cor. 1:2, Phil. 1:1, Col. 1:2)
• God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
• a fellow citizen with all of the Lord’s family (Eph. 2:19)
• prisoner to Christ, slave to Him (Eph 3:1, 4:1)
• made righteous and holy because of Him (Eph. 4:24)
• hidden with Lord ( Col. 3:3)
• chosen by the Lord ( Col. 3:12, 1 Thess. 1:4)
• son of light (1 Thess. 5:5)
• partaker of His calling (Heb. 3:1)
• a marked man and enemy of Satan (1 Pet. 2:11)
• child of the Most High (1 John 3:1-2)
• joint heir w/Christ (Rom. 8:17)
• temple of the Lord’s (1 Cor. 6:17)
• one with Him (1 Cor. 6:17)
• a new creation in Him (2 Cor. 5:17)
• son of God (Gal. 3:26,28)
• reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19)
• member of Christ’s body (1 Cor. 12:27, Eph. 5:30)

We are a pretty big deal to God. He call us friend and sons. ESV Gal. 4:1-10 speaks of sonship. I believe the Lord really wants us to get how much we mean to Him. We listen to the world and the enemy too much. I’m tired of walking down that road—aren’t you???

Romans 8:4-8 Part 3: Faith in God Alone

It is Romans 1:17 boldly declares, “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” If you view your faith as in how the Word of God declares it to be and you properly view worship to God, not in just the singing part of Sunday morning, but the reading of the Word, the driving to and fro to our jobs, the fellowship with believers and non-believers, the time we spend with our spouse and our children and the way we boldly proclaim the gospel of God in deed and in word.

Romans 8:4-8 Part 3: Faith in God Alone (Notes)

Notes for tonight’s Bible Study.

Romans 8:4-8 Part 1: From Total Depravity…

Take verses 5-8 and lets talk about what it means to not belong to Christ:

For those who live according to the flesh have set their minds on the things of the flesh, you are hostile to God, you do not and cannot submit to God’s law and it is impossible for you to please God. You are going to die.

Romans 8:4-8 Part 1: From Total Depravity (Notes)

Notes from the podcast.

Romans 8:3-4: The Great Exchange

Last time we met, we broke down the first half of Romans 8:3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. Essentially we answered “What has God done?”, “If the law was not weakened, could the law fulfill what God has accomplished in His gospel?” and “How did the flesh, sin and essentially, us, weakened the law?” Now that we have answered those questions, let us put everything together and see what we get.

Romans 8:3-4 The Great Exchange (Notes)

Notes and Handouts (available on onlythebroken.org) available.

Romans 8:3a What has God done?

In the overabundance of God’s love, all heavens and the earth, the stars, sun, moon, sea and land, animals and plants and you and me are the tithes of God’s love.  God’s offering is doing what nothing else, not even His law, could do: redeem us.