Here is a letter I sent out to local churches and our membership. Please go to SMMA and comment. -thanks!
The ACLU has challenged San Marcos City Council’s right to have an invocation at each council meeting. They have officially sent a letter to city officials.
Please go to the SAN MARCOS MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION website and voice your opinion of what direction we should take. You will also be able to download the letter from ACLU on our website.
Thanks for your time,
Robin Steele
San Marcos Ministerial Association
Vice Presidenthttp://sanmarcosma.wordpress.com/
michael’s heart
By jacob lowery
the michael jackson deal has really made me sad.
(i’m going to exclude all of the bad parts of his life in this blog. i’m gonna choose to only think about his good stuff for now.)
i can remember my sister charity and i sitting on my bed holding a HUGE radio and listening to see how many times that the station would play “thriller” in an hour. sometimes it was 6-7 times in an hour!
his music is tied up into so many of my memories. i listened to it endlessly. the melodys. the arrangements. the instrumentation. the soul. it is simply timeless music.
i am sad. i am sad that he didn’t get to “come back” like he was trying to do. it would’ve been AMAZING to see and hear.
Click link for image of my new version of sermon notes. I’m almost note free at this point. I am preaching verse by verse, so I have little clues for each passage.
I got this from Robert Flowers. It’s pretty funny.
We are baptizing at the San Marcos River, July 5th. If you haven’t been baptized or know someone that hasn’t, please read this post. It covers the concepts of baptism very well.
This was written by a new friend of mine: Dr. Jeff Garner:
“Baptism- The watery replica of Jesus’ tomb serves as an invitation to be in Jesus. Paul terms it “in Christ,” “In Him,” and “In Whom” and speaks of baptism as though it were a washy lost and found. It’s a call to lose your sin-identity in Christ’s righteous identity. When you look at Jesus, from your baptism forward, you will see yourself in him. Baptism is the event by which you are placed in Jesus Christ. Your baptismal is a re-enactment in the redemption story of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. You choose to separate from your old life and old self and going under the water is a type of burial and rising up out of the water is a type of resurrection. Our final exhale as we are placed under the water is a type of final breath and our held breath is a type of burial and our first inhale is a type resurrection life.
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At PSM we are studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. If you have learned and started practicing everything you have heard so far, then your life would start seeing drastic results.
As of now we have:
• Realized that we are the salt and light of the world
• Stopped being angry with our brother
• done everything we can to stop lusting
• Started loving our spouse and renewed our commitment
• Started simply saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without swearing or taking oaths
• Allowed others to insult us without retaliating
• Served others by doing more than they expect
• Started loving and praying for our enemies
• Started doing righteous acts such as: praying, fasting, and giving to the poor without trying to gain attention from others.
• Learned the power of prayer and how to pray
We are only half way there! I encourage everyone to read Matthew 5, 6, and 7 once a week to let the WORDS of Jesus seep into your body, soul, and spirit. His WORD convicts, sets free, and endues with power. Get into it!
-robin
Last night we joined with Tree of Life in New Braunfels for a time of worship. I believe it is time to agree and accept brothers and sisters, friends, and family. If you did not hear the message last night, you will not understand thoroughly where I am coming from. Looking for ways of agreement and focusing on Jesus Christ creates a powerful place for God to move. It is a new venue for God in our lives that simply does not exist until we join together in unity. We should not focus on our individual skills as much as fostering ways to unite, be in harmony and accord. All of our excuses or reasons (valid or not) will be resolved when we surrender our pride. Will we agree on every issue before there is unity? Will we understand all doctrine and know the intricacies of each others past? What are the prerequisites? There are obviously some things that we will never compromise or associate with. However, I feel like we error on the wrong side of agreement way too often and lack the faith it takes to allow God to move. Our fear of ‘what if..’ What if we are contaminated? What if people think we support their sin? What if we compromise? What if we fail God?
