Devotional takeaways
in a Traveler's Notebook.
Using a calendar from Concordia Publishing House,
cut into thirds and placed in a journal.
and one Fine point Sharpie pen.
Some nuggets of truth for contemplation
in the journey of the soul.
Devotions from:
The Reservoir- A Spiritual Formation Devotional
2 Corinthians 6
Paul is speaking to the Corinthians and
he is not on the best terms with them.
He speaks truth, and that isn't always
something that makes you popular.
Paul has a resume that would make any
of us shrink with incompetence.
But, he points to his grace-laced
relationship with His heavenly Father
and speaks with the nuance of a father saying-
"Widen your hearts."
We certainly can learn from this servant
that work is challenging,
but we need to strive to be without blemish
as we live as servants of God.
How thankful that we can come as we are,
and that the power of the Holy Spirit
moves us to be Mission Minded.
Supplies:
Visual Church Year Printable
Worship into the Week
Magazine Cutouts
Washi Tape
Colored pencils
Junk mail envelope
15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends
to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away,
our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing
for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18 as we look not to the things that are seen
but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient,
but the things that are unseen are eternal.
SO DO NOT LOSE HEART.
In days of overwhelming challenge- a good thing is happening.
We are being renewed.
Made new for the eternal glory to be ours.
Keep your heart eyes focused on the unseen, the things that are eternal.
That goes against the tide of earthly desires, and expectations- don't waiver.
And rejoice as this great grace of God extends to more and more people.
We welcome them all on this journey here,
as we are on the way to our building from God in the heavens.
Supplies:
Visual Church Year Printable
children-s-bulletin-2-corinthians-4-15-6-6-21
Worship into the Week Printable
Prismacolor Pencils
Acts 2: 14a, 22-36
Peter speaks here to the people of Jerusalem at Pentecost.
So much happening here for the disciples,
those who had witnessed seeing Jesus alive,
those still doubting and everyone in between.
Something has rocked what they know
of the world and how it works.
There is the sure thing of death
and now maybe not even that.
Could this Jesus have really
overcome the ultimate barrier?
What hope does that bring to them,
to each of us?
As challenging days sift by on the calendar,
it is noteworthy that this benchmark of ultimate surety
as been reclaimed.
This Jesus could not be held by death.
He has loosed the pangs of death.
All things have to be reevaluated.
We are not Owned by death anymore.
Like David, we have been given this gift of life.
It transcends time, and changes EVERYTHING
here for us while on earth.
Supplies:
Visual Church Year Printable
children-s-bulletin-acts-2-24-5-30-21
Worship in the Week Resource
Magazine cutouts
Die cuts
Wordfetti
Prismacolor pencils
