Bethleham revisited

From the WDL:

Bethlehem Revisited auditions

Interviews and auditions for Bethlehem Revisited will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, and Sunday, Oct. 14, at the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce, 102 YMCA Drive. In order to participate, you must attend all rehearsals and performances, take part in costume preparation and script memorization and be committed to producing a quality show.
Open positions needing audition include a physician’s apprentice, Joseph, roaming characters and a musical group. Open positions to be filled by interview include Shepard’s camp adult, girls age 10-15 for dyer/weaver huts and grape stompers, Herod’s entourage members, families to man empty huts with a trade or skill and individual adults.
Those interested can contact Virginia Sevier at (972) 938-3352 or e-mail virgsevier@sbcglobal.net as soon as possible. An adult must accompany all children.

14 Days of Pursuit

Brian challenged us yesterday to a 14 day challenge, in which we read through the book of Colossians with 5-10 verses a day.
We’re posting the passages online and allowing people to comment if they like.
At the end of 14 days we plan to have a time of sharing to let people talk about what they learned during the 14 days.
I invite you to follow along for 14 Days of Pursuit

Proverbs 2

This is coming a little late in the day (10:43 p.m.) but thought I’d share some thoughts from my reading this morning, Prov. 2.
It was great to see God at work even more when I came to encounter this morning and it was the primary passage Brian spoke from.

Like most of Proverbs, the focus of Prov. 2 on wisdom and learning the fear and knowledge of the Lord.
As I seek God’s wisdom, will and direction in various areas of my life it’s easy to assume/hope/pray that God will magically open a door, we’ll walk through and presto life will make sense.

As I read this passage I think God is saying things might work a little differently.

turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding,
and if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.

I look at the steps needed to find knowledge and I need to turn my ear towards wisdom, apply my heart to understanding, call out for insight, call out, cry aloud, look for it as treasure and search for it as hidden treasure.

Those aren’t easy things to do.

It’s not ouija Bible or flip a coin to find God’s will – it’s seek and look hard for it as you would look for silver or hidden treasure.

I’ve never really searched for hidden treasure, other than geocaching, so that’s about all I can compare it to.
But it’s easy to get out and look for a couple minutes for a geocache and then give up if we don’t find it right away. Sometimes we might find an easy “park and grab” that takes very little effort to find. But the real reward comes when we search and search and search and find that hidden treasure that’s really worth the effort.

Same with seeking God’s wisdom. Sometimes we might get little nuggets that come easy – those are great and helpful but may not take us very far. But those pieces of wisdom that we really seek out and search for will really make a difference. That’s when we’ll learn the fear and knowledge of the Lord.

I’ll post Brian’s thoughts on the encounter podcast soon. Feel free to share your own in the comments below as well.

Hidden Acres


Leo Lodge
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.

Laurie and I took an afternoon trip to Hidden Acres today. It was the first time I’ve been able to take her out there. We strolled around a bit and saw some of the improvements they’ve made. It’s always nice going back down memory lane with Laurie and showing her some of my hold haunts. We also stopped at a nearby cemetery and church and did a little Geocaching before we headed back to Waxahachie. Enjoy the pictures on Flickr.