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Scripture references are from The Holy Bible: New International Version. © 1984 by International Bible Society; NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. and the King James Version.
Personal Mission Statement: "I am created by God to bring Him glory. Through God's Son Jesus Christ I have been redeemed and I make it my life's goal to please the Lord. My mission in life is to honor God through my faith and obedience and to prepare myself and all whom I may influence for eternity."
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Monday, August 11, 2014
Flower wagon at Blue Gate in Shipshewana Indiana (Click to enlarge)
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"Therefore God has highly exalted Him (Jesus Christ) and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).
We arrived back home from our trip to Wisconsin Friday evening and are pleased to be home. Our pets and homestead are fine and we resume our chaplain visitation this week. It was good to be back in our home church yesterday where we regularly fellowship with our brothers and sisters.
Thursday evening we attended a gospel concert at the Blue Gate Theater in Shipshewana Indiana that featured a musical family we enjoy listening to. The Collingsworth family is comprised of a mom and dad, their four children, and a new daughter in law. Other family members work behind the scenes as well. We will share a selection of their music in our resource section below.
The concert concluded with a singing of the chorus derived from our daily text. You will likely recognize this chorus as many of us have sung it for decades:
Phil Collingsworth, the group leader, mused that he would like to be within earshot of hearing members of the ACLU make this confession during this endtime event! I'd like to be standing right next to him. For non American readers the ACLU, along with another godless group from Wisconsin called the "Freedom From Religion Foundation", are bent on stamping out the Christian faith in America from the public square. It seems any expression of Christian faith is a target, with a current effort to monitor Bible-faithful preaching through a filter of political correctness.
But one future day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. We can willingly make this confession now or join even the most hardened atheist and God-hater who will make it at the great judgment. At that time I am not sure "choice" is the right word but rather a stunning realization that life was lived all wrong on this earth and the Jesus who was mocked, scorned and ignored is Lord indeed.
You can make this confession now or later, the choice is yours. It is life's most important choice.
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, it is because of Jesus; His loving compassion toward us evident
in His incarnation, His ministry, His death and resurrection, that we
willingly and joyfully bow on our knees and confess with our tongue
that Jesus Christ is Lord. We deny ourselves the world and all that it
offers to make Jesus our Lord. For some of us it is a commitment
without a great deal of fallout but for others it can ostracize them
from their family, their village, or even cost them their lives.
Whether in life or death we want to be among those who bear witness of
the truth, and are willing to suffer death in the cause of Christ (Acts
22:20; Rev. 2:13; 17:6). We pray for our brothers and sisters in Syria
and in others regions of this world who are undergoing persecution,
many of them fleeing for their lives and others laying down their lives
for the cause of Christ. How consoling to know that this is not the end
but they have received the victor's crown of eternal life where there
will be no more hardship, no persecution, nor a trace of sin. Keep us
faithful no matter what, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Brooksyne visiting with Phil Collingsworth, father of the singing group, during concert intermission 8/7/14.
We saw lot of interesting Amish means of conveyance in Shipshewana.
(Click to enlarge)
Unlike Lancaster County the Amish ride bikes such as this young family out for an early evening ride. Our local Amish must use scooters rather than bikes.
More colorful scenes of the locals.
(Click to enlarge)
We saw a lot of these washtub carts including those with children in them being pulled by mothers on their bicycles!
We took a ride through the countryside as well.
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Every Knee Shall Bow" Video Ivan Parker
"He Is Lord" Video MercyMe
"God Can Do Anything" Video
"At Calvary" Video
"Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary" Video
"If He Hung The Moon" Video
"Show A Little Bit of Love and Kindness" Video
"The Best of the Collingsworth Family - Compilation" Video
Flower wagon at Blue Gate in Shipshewana Indiana (Click to enlarge)
"Now Or Later, The Choice Is Yours"
Listen
to us read this
message on
your
audio player."Therefore God has highly exalted Him (Jesus Christ) and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).
We arrived back home from our trip to Wisconsin Friday evening and are pleased to be home. Our pets and homestead are fine and we resume our chaplain visitation this week. It was good to be back in our home church yesterday where we regularly fellowship with our brothers and sisters.
Thursday evening we attended a gospel concert at the Blue Gate Theater in Shipshewana Indiana that featured a musical family we enjoy listening to. The Collingsworth family is comprised of a mom and dad, their four children, and a new daughter in law. Other family members work behind the scenes as well. We will share a selection of their music in our resource section below.
The concert concluded with a singing of the chorus derived from our daily text. You will likely recognize this chorus as many of us have sung it for decades:
He is Lord, He is Lord
He is risen from the dead and He is Lord
Every knee shall bow
Every tongue confess
That Jesus Christ is Lord
He is risen from the dead and He is Lord
Every knee shall bow
Every tongue confess
That Jesus Christ is Lord
Phil Collingsworth, the group leader, mused that he would like to be within earshot of hearing members of the ACLU make this confession during this endtime event! I'd like to be standing right next to him. For non American readers the ACLU, along with another godless group from Wisconsin called the "Freedom From Religion Foundation", are bent on stamping out the Christian faith in America from the public square. It seems any expression of Christian faith is a target, with a current effort to monitor Bible-faithful preaching through a filter of political correctness.
But one future day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. We can willingly make this confession now or join even the most hardened atheist and God-hater who will make it at the great judgment. At that time I am not sure "choice" is the right word but rather a stunning realization that life was lived all wrong on this earth and the Jesus who was mocked, scorned and ignored is Lord indeed.
You can make this confession now or later, the choice is yours. It is life's most important choice.
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, it is because of Jesus; His loving compassion toward us evident
in His incarnation, His ministry, His death and resurrection, that we
willingly and joyfully bow on our knees and confess with our tongue
that Jesus Christ is Lord. We deny ourselves the world and all that it
offers to make Jesus our Lord. For some of us it is a commitment
without a great deal of fallout but for others it can ostracize them
from their family, their village, or even cost them their lives.
Whether in life or death we want to be among those who bear witness of
the truth, and are willing to suffer death in the cause of Christ (Acts
22:20; Rev. 2:13; 17:6). We pray for our brothers and sisters in Syria
and in others regions of this world who are undergoing persecution,
many of them fleeing for their lives and others laying down their lives
for the cause of Christ. How consoling to know that this is not the end
but they have received the victor's crown of eternal life where there
will be no more hardship, no persecution, nor a trace of sin. Keep us
faithful no matter what, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.Brooksyne visiting with Phil Collingsworth, father of the singing group, during concert intermission 8/7/14.
We saw lot of interesting Amish means of conveyance in Shipshewana.
(Click to enlarge)
Unlike Lancaster County the Amish ride bikes such as this young family out for an early evening ride. Our local Amish must use scooters rather than bikes.
More colorful scenes of the locals.
(Click to enlarge)
We saw a lot of these washtub carts including those with children in them being pulled by mothers on their bicycles!
We took a ride through the countryside as well.
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Every Knee Shall Bow" Video Ivan Parker
"He Is Lord" Video MercyMe
A Sampling of Songs from the Collingsworth Family
"God Can Do Anything" Video
"At Calvary" Video
"Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary" Video
"If He Hung The Moon" Video
"Show A Little Bit of Love and Kindness" Video
"The Best of the Collingsworth Family - Compilation" Video
Send a message to Stephen & Brooksyne
To receive the "Daily Encouragement" each Monday-Friday through email see this page to subscribe to our email list. You can also subscribe to the Wordpress rss feed or through a Wordpress email subscription. (See the email subscription on the right side after opening this page.)
Are
our daily encouragement messages a blessing to you? We ask you to
consider making a donation to Daily Encouragement Net so that we can
continue to prepare and provide this daily resource which is
accessed by believers and seekers all over the world. Daily
Encouragement Net relies solely on the generosity and financial support
of its readers and podcast listeners. See here for more information on supporting this
ministry. Gifts are tax deductible.Permissions: Please feel free to pass on, reproduce and distribute any material on Daily Encouragement Net, in part or in whole, in any format, provided that you do not alter the wording in any way or charge a fee beyond the cost of reproduction. It is our desire to spread this material, not protect or restrict it. I do request that you keep the contact, copyright and subscription information intact.
Text only version for printing: To make a text only version for printing (without photos or any of the supplemental materials)
1) Open the basic text editor that comes with all computers (known as wordpad, textpad, etc.) You can also use a program like Word and select paste text only.
2) Select and copy the text from the portion of the message you want to print.
3) Paste into the text pad. (The photos won't show up but you will have a brief text description of the photo which you can delete or just ignore.)
4) Format if you desire (change font, increase or decrease size, etc.)
5) Print!
Scripture references are from The Holy Bible: New International Version. © 1984 by International Bible Society; NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. and the King James Version.
Personal Mission Statement: "I am created by God to bring Him glory. Through God's Son Jesus Christ I have been redeemed and I make it my life's goal to please the Lord. My mission in life is to honor God through my faith and obedience and to prepare myself and all whom I may influence for eternity."
© Copyright 2014 Stephen C. Weber - All Rights Reserved
Daily Encouragement Net - 495 Kraybill Church Road - Mount Joy, PA 17552 USA