Hey everyone:

Here is the text for this week! Have fun with this one! And don’t forget to try to decide if it is a good, bad, or ugly church.

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Rev. 3:1-6

1″To the angel[a] of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits[b]of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. 3Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. 4Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. 6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Footnotes:

1. Revelation 3:1 Or messenger; also in verses 7 and 14
2. Revelation 3:1 Or the sevenfold Spirit
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Blessing to everyone who reads this blog, and don’t forget that we all are going to try to set our watches, cell phones, computers, etc.. to go off @ 11:00am and @ 3:00pm to remind us to bless others each week/day, and to pray for each other, as well as, those around us!

Welcome to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: A Discussion Series on the Seven Churches in Revelation.

Here is an overview of the next seven weeks:

Week 1: Rev. 2:1-7 Ephesus: 1st Love
Week 2: Rev. 2:8-11 Smyrna: Faith Death
Week 3: Rev. 2:12-17 Pergamum: Nasty Idol Food
Week 4: Rev. 2:18-29 Thyatira: Jezebel, you !@$%*
Week 5: Rev. 3:1-6 Sardis: WAKE UP!
Week 6: Rev. 3:7-13 Philadelphia: Patient Endurance
Week 7: Rev. 3:14-22 Laodicea: Spit

Enjoy the discussions. I will be posting the text for this week right now.

Hey everyone i ust wanted to let yal know of a special event tha tis being put on by the friends and fmialy of Keith Dixon. Keith was mowing the yard of a friend who really needed the help and while mowing a hill his foot sliped and found its way under the lawnmower. Needless to say the mower won the fight and Keith had to have surgery. He has been told that he will not be able to work for several weeks and that does not even include the medical expenses!

So his friends and family (and yes, Th3 Waters is his family too)  have decided to have a benefit concert to help Keith and Sarah out! So, I have updated the calendar appropriately and here is the info here as well:

Where: Florence UMC (the map and directions can be found on the calendar.

When: This Sunday @ 7:00 pm

What to bring: money to give, and yourself to enjoy a night of amazing music!

If you would like to participate in the concert, just contact D.G. and he will send you to the right person. Thanks!

someone elses is setting up meals to take to Keith and Sarah and if you would like to cook a meal and drop it off over there contact D.G. again and he wil send you to the right person! Thanks and God bless yall!

BTW: Keith is the tall guy in the Habitat for Humanity picture just two blog posts down.

Just wanted to remind everyone that we are all going to join together again as an all Waters’ Living Out Loud event by building two Habitat for Humanity houses this Saturday! The event starts @ 8:00 am @ Florence Christian Chruch with Breakfast and lunch provided! for more information just go tot he Calendar over there on the right side of the blog!

And don’t forget the Derek Webb concert tonight @ 7:00 pm @ Vineyard Central 7:00pm - 10:30pm. (also on the calendar)

The food pantry at Grace is bare! On Easter Sunday we served 75 households. This Sunday 86 households were served: totaling 64 children, 136 adults and 12 seniors. At the end of the night we were giving out food bags that simply contained one can of vegetables and a package of Ramen Noodles.

We are in desperate need of supplies. We need tuna, spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, mac & cheese, boxes of single serve instant oatmeal, Chef Boy-R-Dee (pop top cans), peanut butter, Hormel chili (pop top), beef stew (pop top), complete meal kits (with meat), toothbrushes, powdered laundry detergent, pads, and tampons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Supplies are needed ASAP. I am able to pick up donations during the week. I can be reached on my cell phone at 859 743-6115 or by email, millerkels@fuse.net.

Thank you and God bless

Kelsey Miller

Grace Food Pantry Coordinator

Hey everyone:

Hope your Easter is going well!  We have made a few changes and I just wanted to point them out.

We now have a calendar up showing all of the major events happening @ Th3 Waters! This will be a one stop shop to find out the events coming up with Th3 Waters and allow you to put them all on your calendars and to be able to attend!

To go tot he Calendar page just click on the word, “Calendar” over there on the right —–>

or you can just go directly to the page via this link.

There is tons of stuff coming up in April.. so be sure to check it out!

Have a great week and please do not forget to bless at least three people this week, and think about who you will bless and what you will do to bless them before hand.. it usually makes the blessing more meaningful that just a random act of kindness! Thanks and God bless yall!

Surprised by Hope
A Discussion Series about Life, Death, & Resurrection
Overview:

Week 1: 1 Thess 4:13-18 The Sleep Death
Week 2: Philippians 3:17-21 Glorious Body
Week 3: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 What If We Were Wrong?
Week 4: 1 Corinthians 15:20-34 Reign of Christ and Our Present Living!
Week 5: 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 Living in Mystery & Victory

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Since it is Easter time and we are celebrating Jesus rising from the dead, I thought what better a time to talk about our death, and following Christ in resurrection, and what it means for us and the way we live our lives now! Maybe we can journey through a road that is filled with many misconceptions and fear about death, resurrection, and heaven, and the hope that we can all live by today and in the future!

This series will be loosely based off of the new N.T. Wright Book, titled the same as the series, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (why reinvent the wheel right?) So, even though we will not be discussing the book, I would like to encourage each and everyone of you to pick up the book and have a read, I will be doing the same over the next couple of weeks and would love to invite you into discussion!

Here is a link to purchase the book via amazon.com:

or you can probably find it at your local Barnes & Noble Bookstore or Christian Bookstore.

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I can’t wait to see the discussions here and @ each of your Gatherings!

Photo by Cindy (C) all rights reserved. 

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that helps brainstorm ideas for our Station of the Cross and to those who help set it all up! It was a great experience and I hope that two years from now when we do it again more of us can be involved! Thanks.. If you woul dlike to check out pictures from the event a few descriptions of the stations then head over to this Flickr set or try This Flickr Set!

God bless yall!

Hey everyone:

Here are the texts for this week’s discussion:

Psalm 130

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;

2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.

3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.

5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.

6 My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.

8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.

AND

John 11: 17-45

17On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18Bethany was less than two miles^[a] from Jerusalem, 19and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

21“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

27“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ,^[b] the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

28And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34“Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35Jesus wept.

36Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

37But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39“Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” 40Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.

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We still need help for Via Crucis, lots of ideas are being thrown around and we need to get together and talk a litle bit more about it… so please email D.G. if you would like to help… and your help can be just giving ideas and helping us think through the station, it does not include your presence for long hours on end… unless you want to help in that way, heh… Thanks!

Oh and please be in prayer for Court and Kelly Miller, Kelly is planned to be induced to go into labor some time Friday night-Saturday morning! Thank you! KUTPs!!!
John 11:1-45

http://www.viacrucisimmersion.com/

if you would like to help, please contact D.G.!