Ninas Family Missional Life

Welcome to the New Year!!   I know that a lot of people are coming up with New Year's Resolutions.  I posted a video from   David Platt that speaks my heart about New Year's Resolutions.       “If we are not careful, resolutions—the best resolutions—if we’re not careful in the way we approach them, they can only drive us into deeper dependence on ourselves. What we are going to try to do harder this year, how we are going to change ourselves.      But remember that the essence of following Christ, the essence of what was initially displayed in your baptism was the renouncing of yourself; a death to yourself. A death to your every effort to improve yourself, to obey God in your own strength in your own power in your own resolve. Don’t do that. Trust in Christ. Trust in Christ more this year and ask Him to do these things in you, whether it is in your marriage or in your relationships with others or in your time in the Word. Ask Him to produce faith in you to bring that k

     I have had the opportunity to travel a great deal in my life.  My philosophy on travel is never take the same route.   When my children were learning to drive, they always knew that we would be going "sightseeing" as they would call it.  However, now that they are older they enjoy taking different routes to familiar places (Wal-Mart comes to mind!).    We all hear sermons on Sunday, if we go to church (live or televised).    The exact number of sermons I have heard in my life is "a lot."  One recurring in sermons is the "New Testament church.   If you are with me so far, Acts 2:42-47 just popped in your head (or over your head in a thought bubble).   If you aren't familiar, let me quote for you: Acts 2:42   And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship , and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.     43   And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.     44  And all that b