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SUMMARY:Happy Hopeful New Year
DESCRIPTION:We made it! It is now 2022! After all we have been through these past two years\, I am hoping that this year is something special. I am hoping for people to genuinely like each other and look out after one another. I am hoping for a real quick end to all this covid stuff. I am hoping to get in shape\, to eat and be more healthy. I hope to be a better husband\, dad\, and even brother. I hope we can go on a real vacation this year. I hope for great things to happen in the youth and children’s ministries at church. I hope lives are changed for the better!! I hope\, I hope\, I hope! \nI am hoping for a lot\, right? Well as I see it\, I figure most of my hopes would be good hopes\, things that God would think are good things\, so everything is going to go my way this year… maybe\, or maybe not. I think in order to make it an excellent year that two things need to happen. \nFirst of all\, I have to make sure that God is in the middle of it all. We are all great at making new resolutions that we try to stick to\, but usually give up way too early\, and that is why we seem to make the same ones over and over again. So\, if we put God in the middle of them we will definitely stand a better chance at accomplishing them. He actually wants to be in the middle of your life and all of your decisions\, whether you know it or not! \nSecondly\, I believe we actually have to try and participate in bringing about the changes and the hopes we have for a better future. It seems like we hope for a lot\, then we just sit around waiting for God to deliver\, not doing anything to participate with God\, just expecting God to do all the work. Christianity is not “a sideline let’s watch and see kind of thing\,” but it is more like get up and participate kind of thing.” \nGod has given us minds to be creative. We have hearts that need to love and to give. We have resources that we can share. We even have the ability to be disciplined enough to be sowers of hope that in turn always brings us more hope and joy than we actually expect. We just have to act and move on those things we want to happen in our lives. I honestly believe that we have the potential to make this 2022 so incredible for ourselves and our community\, all we have to do is put God in the middle and get to work ourselves! \nHappy New Year!! \n\nPastor Richard
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LOCATION:4560 Hwy 49 S.\, Harrisburg\, NC\, 28075\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Christ Child\, A devotion by Pastor Richard
DESCRIPTION:The Christ Child\nA devotion by Pastor Richard\nThis year\, for some reason\, has been much\, much busier than usual for me personally. Normally I look forward to December and my work with youth and children slowing down a little. We try to do our parties and Christmas celebrations earlier in the month because of all the family things and travel starts to occur mid-month. Of course\, other areas of the church have more than usual going on with extra services to plan and organize. This year has been different. Maybe it was my nephew’s wedding last week. Maybe it was my family deciding they could come see us and spend Christmas with us after all. It might have been deciding to preach on the day after Christmas when the opportunity arose! It just feels like a lot. I am not going to mention all the different areas of stress\, conflict\, and the attempt to deal graciously with all those involved! \nIt is so easy to get caught up in all the distractions and miss the lessons God teaches us in the birth story of His own Son. I bet I have either read or heard the birth story at least twenty times this December\, and we are still not even to Christmas Eve! I have yet to take the time and process what it means for me\, this year\, in this context. I have not begun to think of how this precious babe should be directing my path for 2022\, which is lining up to be another challenging year. In my heart I feel that God is up to something and will be moving in new and fresh ways in our country\, but my fear is that we are going to miss our opportunity to be a part of it simply because we do not stop and pause at the manger. We are too busy with everything else to take the time to peer at the baby in the stable and see the face of God. \nSo\, my question for all of us\, with myself being at the top of the list\, what is God teaching us from the manger this year? What lessons of His unfathomable love is He trying to teach me this season? It is so easy to walk on by and continue with my life\, and do the things I want\, without pausing to really notice God coming into our world\, just so that we all might find a better way of living and relating to both our Creator and with one another. Let me encourage you to do some deeper self-reflection and God-reflection this year. Do not take that next step into 2022 without having spent time with Jesus and His family in that old stable in Bethlehem. Discover how God wants to change you and use you for His purposes in the coming year. \nMerry Christmas!!! \nPastor Richard
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LOCATION:4560 Hwy 49 S.\, Harrisburg\, NC\, 28075\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joy\, Devotion by Pastor Richard
DESCRIPTION:What brings you great joy? Stop and think for a minute\, do not just take the first answer that pops into your head. Think about what really brings you the greatest joy? Is it an action that you do for someone? Is it an action someone does for you? Is it something you witness from time to time out in the world? Is it something material like a car\, house\, or some object? Maybe your great joy resides in a memory of someone no longer alive. I just want you to seriously think about what brings you the greatest joy. A lot of things make me happy\, but only a few bring me “great joy.” My “great joy” is most likely different from your great joy. \nNow think about the shepherd story in Luke 2\, and notice verse 10: “ but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.” (NLT). The angels are telling those poor\, smelly and afraid shepherds that God is in the process of doing something incredible! Someone is coming\, someone that will bring us all\, not just joy\, but great joy! And not just to those shepherds but a joy for the whole world forever! \nDuring this Advent and Christmas seasons\, life gets tougher for some reason. We all pile on tons of other things and events on top of our regular responsibilities. We also sometimes dwell on those that are no longer with us or cannot be with us during these times of special gatherings. There are even those out there that suffer from loneliness and depression more at this time of year than the rest of the year. They witness families getting together and they have no family. It can be an incredibly tough time of year for so many. So where can we find that great joy that Luke talks about? \nLet us rediscover that joy by heading back to the manger scene two thousand years ago. Let us join that walk with the shepherds to discover God’s precious gift of joy. Maybe we need to run to Bethlehem as I imagine some of the shepherds are doing! I cannot see them taking their time getting to the manger\, after all they were serenaded by God’s heavenly host\, and told by God to go and see the miracle that is the baby Jesus! That gift is the gift that changes the direction of humanity. It is a gift of a love we cannot even begin to imagine in the midst of our brokenness. It is a gift that if we let it\, can bring us the greatest joy that will change our very nature and lead us down paths God truly intended for us to travel in this life. It is a gift that allows us to move even through our own pain\, loss\, and distractions to a point of great joy and celebration. \nGo! Take a peek into that manger and see the greatest source of joy for the whole world\, for all time! \nMuch Joy! \nPastor Richard
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