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MonMondayOctOctober15th2012 October 15

Posted Monday, October 15 2012 @ 5 AM by Tagged Genesis Stewardship 0 comments Add comment

Day 1 – October 15, 2012

Read Genesis 28:10-22.

When Jacob experienced God’s presence at Bethel, he vowed to remember God by giving a tenth of all that he is given.

Why do you and people you know give to charities, universities, or non-profit organizations?

A recent article in the Dallas Morning News showed giving trends in the DFW area. Click here to view the article (pdf). Does anything stand out to you in the statistics? If so, why?

Why do you and people you know give to churches?

Why do you give to FUMC Grapevine?

Read more about giving in America (pdf)

Read more about giving at FUMC Grapevine (pdf)

FriFridayOctOctober14th2011

Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 2:4b-7

Posted Friday, October 14 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged Creation Genesis Love Spirit 1 comments Add comment

Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 2:4b-7

“So God created man in his own image…”

These are the two stories in the Bible of God’s creation of human beings. Both are so insightful. I love them both for different reasons. The first tells us we are created in the image of God. We would later find out, in John’s first letter, that image is love. The second tells us that we come alive when given the breath (spirit) of God. It is the spirit of God that makes us living beings. These verses ingeniously show us the paradox of being human. As Jesus said, it is the last that will be first and the first last and it is the one who is willing to lose his life who will find it. Whenever we live counter to God’s life-giving love, we are, as my mother used to say, “...cutting off our nose to spite our face.”

MonMondayOctOctober10th2011

Genesis 3:1-13

Posted Monday, October 10 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged Genesis 0 comments Add comment

Genesis 3:1-13

“[Eve] took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband…”

I think it is good to read this story every once in a while to remember how vulnerable we are to our own desires. The biblical storyteller sums up our human frailty in just a few verses. What wants and desires are getting in your way of being, as Sunday’s scripture said, “children of your father in heaven.”

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