Weekly e-news March 6, 2020
Hey, everyone!
I’m gonna just skip the weather forecast this week because I want to get right to the point…
I REALLY hope you can make a special effort to make it to Triple C this Sunday!
We really have some really EXTRA SPECIAL things planned for you this week!
Just listen to this…
We’re going to have a time to all stand and sing together!
(Now, seriously…Where else do grown ups get together to sing songs as loud as they can??)
We’re going to be singing some songs about what it means to trust Jesus and along the way, some other ones praising Him directly while we’re at it!
Then we’ll have some time to pray to Him!
We will actually be talking with Jesus personally!
It’s gonna be awesome!!
Then there’ll be a time to think and reflect on some words from the Bible and why thinking about Jesus is the most important thing you could possibly do!
Then, we’ll all take what we call “communion” together to remember what Jesus did for us to make us His!
Then we’ll even EAT TOGETHER!!! Delicious stuff our people fix at home and bring to church and share!!
It’s going to be a super special time! So, I wanted to let y’all know that…
Huh?
I’m sorry…
What’d you say?
“That’s what we always do! Singing and listening is what we always do every Sunday!! That added “communion-and-eating-together” thing is what we always do on the third Sunday!!”
Oh! Right!
In telling you that we’re going to have a super special time at Triple C this Sunday, I probably should have added that the thing that makes it so special is that we’re gonna do what we always do!
We always sing!
Songs to Jesus!
We always pray!
We always have time to listen to thoughts from the Scriptures about Jesus!
That’s what’s so cool about it!
It’s always the same!
Because your week always isn’t! In fact, your weeks are never the same! They’re full of…
surprising troubles…
unanticipated problems…
unexpected discouragements…
(if you expected them, they wouldn’t be so discouraging!)…
Every week has that “well, I thought I’d seen it all!” moments…
A criticism you didn’t see coming…
Another school commitment they’re asking you to make…
Another cruel social media hit one of the kids suffers at school…
It can feel SO confusing!!
“What’s coming next?”
I heard this guy say that when he was taking private (intense!) pilot lessons, his instructor would do this thing at the end of the classes where he’d put a sack over the students head(!) so he or she couldn’t see anything!
Then the teacher would take the controls and start doing mid-air stunts!!
Loops!
Then he’d fly straight uuuuuuuup and suddenly flip belly-up!
Then swoop down towards our earth…
Then add spirals, more loops, nosedives, tailspins and wing-tilts!
The student would be “utterly discombobulated” at this point! Next…
Next the teacher would put the plane into a “suicide dive”, yank the sack off the student’s noggin, and hand him the controls! The student’s job was to get the plane back flying even, smooth, and under control!
Quick!
The exercise is called, “Recovering from an Unusual Attitude”
Maybe that’s one of the things worshiping Jesus together on Sunday does for you.
You’ve spent the week spinning, climbing and suddenly diving…
ups and downs…
highs and lows…
troubles and trials…
dreading the expected and blind-sided by the unexpected…
rockin’ and reelin’…
And then Sunday comes so you go to Triple C and…
you see your friends…
you sing and clap…
you praise your Savior…
you hear His promises…
you feel His Spirit…
you hear that He loves you still and always…
and that you’re His own forever…
“I am a child of the Maker of stars!
The One Who knows everything hand-made my heart!
He cherishes, treasures me, gave life and blood.
He is my Friend and I am His beloved!”
You do the same thing you do every Sunday.
You remember important things you know.
And at the end…
you’ve “recovered from an unusual attitude”.