August 13, 2018
Life & Love, Unscripted
I love our church. Landmark Family Church has been my home for almost 11 years! I love that we do life, unscripted, instead of follow a template and expect everything God does to fit in tiny boxes.
Like Sunday morning. The past two lessons have been right on what I’m studying, feeling, and hearing from God. Wow. Blows me away.
But this Sunday past seemed to blow away two people near me as well. This is because God knows exactly what we all need to hear and somehow he manages to put just the right stuff into the speaker’s mouth so it affects everyone just as God wants it to.
God’s Word smashed in and messed up some apple carts yesterday and I love it when that happens! (It’s like what you need to hear because you sometimes try to reason your way out of what you feel, so when someone else says it, you’re like “maybe I ought to listen.” God does that a lot to me.)
We have this corporate thing about squirrels (you’ll see them everywhere) so the girls and I designed “The Landmark Tribe” squirrel stories as a way to give back. (Everything we make from those books goes to our church!)
Rebeccah has been carrying a passion for helping at church in a specific way for over a year, but never said anything because we couldn’t always be at church on Saturday nights (they had been doing Saturday night services), but now, they are restarting regular Sunday morning service! Rebeccah was ecstatic. She spent all week preparing her “presentation booklet” to have all her ideas organized. She was so scared she would be told no, and so thrilled when she was told yes! (She spent all of today making notes look neater and printing up other ideas. She kept saying “I can’t wait for Sunday!”)
Life is real. Love is real. I love that our church is real. We are real people doing life together and coming together with the expectation of hearing God’s Word in a real way. That’s how God uses us; you may sit down and a song speaks to your heart, or is seems the speaker is talking just to you. That’s real. That’s God’s love. He does speak just to you. He leaves the ninety-nine and makes a special trip to heal your heart. That’s real Love.
Thank you, God, for Your love!
Thanks for reading!
Type at you next time…
~Nancy Tart