The Grace of God

Galatians 2:19-21


 ¹⁹ “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”


We have been getting involved in Life Gen leadership on Friday nights and having a blast. It is kinda bringing back old memories from leading TLC Uth Groop back home. No matter what I do It is nothing but the grace of God that can save people. Thank you Jesus for removing that burden of my back. Now that I understand that lets go have some fun, climb table top mountain, mens camp, crows nest falls? maybe. 


I am having a blast and here is what got from mens camp. Have you ever slept in a swag? No Leemar, not the way that I walk I'm talking about a on person tent with a small amount of padding on the bottom. I now know how to use a GPS to navigate the bush of QLD Australia, and I have driven a small boat around Pindari Dam. While on the boats we got to go cliff diving, bouldering, and ply tag with the boats. 


Adam Grant gave two man talks, one on Saturday morn and the other on Sunday morn. The first talk was about the divine order of men taking responsibility. Ever since the garden men have been shifting blame onto someone else. He said we need to take responsibility for our physical health, our past, spirit man, and our purity. Concerning all of those the quote, "I did not feel like doing it but I knew it was good for me" I don't feel like taking a walk, reading my bible, forgiving others, or denying my flesh but I knew God would bless me for it. Second talk was about marriage and how men need to be able to cry and say I love you.........uh well something like that :) What he really said is that we need to love our families not just by providing but by being there physically and emotionally. Be the leader, Be the MAN of the house. Adam talked about what that looks like in a world where the father is either absent or portrayed as week. I love my wife as Christ loves his church giving himself unto her so that she can be made whole. Thank you Jesus for doing that for me.


To wrap things up we just had God bless Easterfest with ticket sales beyond any of our bets....I mean imaginations ;) Thank you lord for caring for us in ways we can't even imagine. Men, go be men and love like Christ and with the fathers heart. Woman, love us through our mistakes and maybe we can make it through till tomorrow. 


Peace out, Jonathan