Everybody All Seasons Total Earth - Remember - EASTER !

GREATER LOVE   "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:9-13).     Jesus said, "they hated me without reason." He was neither the first nor the last person to be subjected to senseless rejection and persecution, but because he was the one perfect, sinless one, the hatred played out against him was the vilest the world would ever see. His haters called light darkness, they saw righteousness and called it wickedness. They even called the work of God the deeds of the devil. We've heard of stories of brave sacrifices-a soldier throwing his body on a hand grenade, a firefighter charging into an inferno only to lose his own life. These are stirring, and they show humanity at its best. But Jesus' sacrifice was not the impulse of a desperate moment. He moved with resolve toward his own end. There is no greater love. We can look through every page of history and every corner of the universe and we won't find anything that comes even close. Jesus looked at his friends, told them he would be laying down his life, and then required one simple thing: love each other.   Ponder This: What do you have to say to Jesus who laid his life down for you?     Learn how you can increase and deepen your influence HERE... The Brook Network, sponsored by Elmbrook Church, is an exchange of ideas and growing set of relationships. Like us on FACEBOOK   |   Follow us on TWITTER

Stop looking back.....

Sometimes your past dominates the view

·        of your purpose

·        the promise of freedom

·        the grace you do not deserve

·        the love you do not understand

Lift up your life

Take another step closer to the Cross

Just walk out into the sunshine of your Salvation

Thank you Joyce for writing this prayer - we all know about Tizzies and this prayer will help us to get rid of them.........!

A Prayer to Be Free From Tizzies*
Dear God,
you who did not invent tizzies,
be with me when I get caught
in the wild worrying of my mind,
and the needless scurrying around
in my fearful heart.

Trip me up when I fret and stew
so I can see the trap of tizzies,
with their schemes to keep me
bunched up in stress and strain.

Let me fall headfirst into the truth
of your never-ending presence,
wrap your kind arms around me
and calm my doubts and fears.

Shout loudly in my spiritual ear
when my nerves get knotted,
my mind feels cramped,
and my stomach screams.

It may be difficult,
but do try to get my full attention,
because tizzies are not healthy,
and they definitely chase peace
out the front door of my heart.

Dear God, you did not invent tizzies,
I did,
and only I can send them on their way,
and I will,
if you strengthen me
to let go of my anxious hold
on what is nonessential.

---Joyce Rupp

*A tizzy is a "state of frenzied excitement or distraction, especially over some trivial matter" (Webster's New Unabridged Dictionary).

Calling ?

"Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service."

Os Guinness, author of The Call