Friday, September 30, 2016

Infantry Infancy

Tomorrow, we go live on the streets with the Jesus Burger crews from Filmer and GunBarrel City RIGHT HERE IN CARTHAGE.  Although we're not officially Jesus Burger Carthage that's the path we're traveling.  Vendors such as Brookshire Brothers have donated funds for the event and our wonderful friend have donated time and money into us here to take the gospel to the streets.  Come on out and join us tomorrow if you are able!
ChristCarriesMe.org for more info.

Jesus Burger is practical ministry in action.  There are groups of people called people who go out and lay out clothing on tables, set up a platform and some chairs, call a band to worship and a preacher to deliver a message, let the Holy Ghost lead, fill up a baptismal (Giant Rubbermaid Water Trough), cook hot dogs and hamburgers and feed OTHER people that come by.  They set all this stuff up on a regular basis, put a sign out by the highway that says "free meal and clothes, live music.  JESUS BURGER" and wait for the people to come....   and they do.  They like to set up in random parking lots across east Texas  (We've been to Gun Barrel City, Longview, and Gilmer so far, all different, all awesome) and minister the gospel practically:  Song, Word, Clothes, Food.  

Brilliantly simple.

Gun Barrel City, Tx     Second Saturday 10 am
Gilmer, Tx                   Third Saturday 10 am
Longview, TX              Every Saturday and 2nd and 4th Saturdays Morning and Night.

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It is okay for other people to be selfish and uncaring, God might forgive them, but knowing it's not right means it's not okay for you.  It is okay if other people use you and gossip about you, it is okay for other people to listen to that gossip and backbiting about you and reject you solely for that reason alone, but since you know it's wrong, it's not okay for you.  As a Believer there are many things the world has right to that you don't, meaning they can and you can't.  Our hearts should be broken for the world, not filled with rage.  Out motives are to call them in, not cuss them out.  If your example fails for them, they'll suffer for it eternally.  "Love thy neighbor as thyself."



Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Carthage Street Ministry En Espanol - First Saturday

Live Music, Clothing, and Free Meal en Espanol!

We are holding an evangelistic event in Carthage to take the gospel to the streets and meet the needs of the people where they are.  We are needing food and clothing items for this event.  We would like to give you an opportunity to sow into the Kingdom by participating as a sponsor this weekend.  We are calling all hands to service in any way you can.  We need hamburgers, buns, ketchup, mustard, onions, chips (indiv svg bags), ice, bottled water for 50 people and clothing items for the event.  It's going to be this Saturday @ 360 CR 1041.

Live Music, Clothing, and Free Meal
First Saturday   10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

This event is a kind of beginning for the vision for “Jesus Burger Carthage”.  This type of ministry is going strong in Longview, Gilmer, and Gun Barrel City.  Although this is not officially "Jesus Burger Carthage" it is the infancy of it.  Please come out to join us and worship with us.  You can drop off items at Christ Carries Me Ministries (Call 903.265.4424) in Carthage (Ridderville) or we’ll come get it (903.265.4424) OR you can donate funds to purchase the items we need.   We already have some clothing items and tables and such.  We are contacting local stores to see if they'll donate into the ministry field. 




Featuring:
Tabernacle of Faith Worship

Speaker:
Pastor Rick Aguilar



Tuesday, September 27, 2016

A god unto himself

 So by virtue of the blood of Jesus, you and I, my brothers, may now have courage to enter the holy of holies by way of the one who died and is yet alive, who has made for us a holy means of entry by himself passing through the curtain, that is, his own human nature. Further, since we have a great High Priest set over the household of God, let us draw near with true hearts and fullest confidence, knowing that our inmost souls have been purified by the sprinkling of his blood just as our bodies are cleansed by the washing of clean water. In this confidence let us hold on to the hope that we profess without the slightest hesitation—for he is utterly dependable—and let us think of one another and how we can encourage each other to love and do good deeds. And let us not hold aloof from our church meetings, as some do. Let us do all we can to help one another’s faith, and this the more earnestly as we see the final day drawing ever nearer.      Heb 10:19-25 Phillips

The man who goes by himself will become a god to himself, but he that connects to the Body of Christ will become one with God.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Spiritual Things Discerned, Foolishness To Fleshly Mind

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:16J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

18 The preaching of the cross is, I know, nonsense to those who are involved in this dying world, but to us who are being saved from that death it is nothing less than the power of God.

The cross shows that God’s wisdom is not man’s wisdom by any means

19 It is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent’.
20-25 For consider, what have the philosopher, the writer and the critic of this world to show for all their wisdom? Has not God made the wisdom of this world look foolish? for it was after the world in its wisdom failed to know God, that he in his wisdom chose to save all who would believe by the “simple-mindedness” of the Gospel message. For the Jews ask for miraculous proofs and the Greeks an intellectual panacea, but all we preach is Christ crucified—a stumbling block to the Jews and sheer nonsense to the Gentiles, but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. And this is really only natural, for God’s foolishness” is wiser than men, and his “weakness” is stronger than men.

Nor are God’s values the same as man’s

26-31 For look at your own calling as Christians, my brothers. You don’t see among you many of the wise (according to this world’s judgment) nor many of the ruling class, nor many from the noblest families. But God has chosen what the world calls foolish to shame the wise; he has chosen what the world calls weak to shame the strong. He has chosen things of little strength and small repute, yes and even things which have no real existence to explode the pretensions of the things that are—that no man may boast in the presence of God. Yet from this same God you have received your standing in Jesus Christ, and he has become for us the true wisdom, a matter, in practice, of being made righteous and holy, in fact, of being redeemed. And this makes us see the truth of scripture: ‘He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

I came to you in God’s strength not my own

1-5 In the same way, my brothers, when I came to proclaim to you God’s secret purpose, I did not come equipped with any brilliance of speech or intellect. You may as well know now that it was my secret determination to concentrate entirely on Jesus Christ and the fact of his death upon the cross. As a matter of fact, in myself I was feeling far from strong; I was nervous and rather shaky. What I said and preached had none of the attractiveness of the clever mind, but it was a demonstration of the power of the Spirit! Plainly God’s purpose was that your faith should not rest upon man’s cleverness but upon the power of God.

There is, of course, a real wisdom, which God allows us to share with him

6-8 We do, of course, speak “wisdom” among those who are spiritually mature, but it is not what is called wisdom by this world, nor by the powers-that-be, who soon will be only the powers that have been. The wisdom we speak of is that mysterious secret wisdom of God which he planned before the creation for our glory today. None of the powers of this world have known this wisdom—if they had they would never have crucified the Lord of glory!
9-10a But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him’. But God has, through the Spirit, let us share his secret.
10b-12 For nothing is hidden from the Spirit, not even the deep wisdom of God. For who could really understand a man’s inmost thoughts except the spirit of the man himself? How much less could anyone understand the thoughts of God except the very Spirit of God? And the marvellous thing is this, that we now receive not the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God himself, so that we can actually understand something of God’s generosity towards us.

This wisdom is only understood by the spiritual

13 It is these things that we talk about, not using the expressions of the human intellect but those which the Holy Spirit teaches us, explaining things to those who are spiritual.
14-16 But the unspiritual man simply cannot accept the matters which the Spirit deals with—they just don’t make sense to him, for, after all, you must be spiritual to see spiritual things. The spiritual man, on the other hand, has an insight into the meaning of everything, though his insight may baffle the man of the world. This is because the former is sharing in God’s wisdom, and ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?’ Incredible as it may sound, we who are spiritual have the very thoughts of Christ!
J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Phillips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Administered by The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England. 

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Travis State Jail with Mike Barber Ministries

In July we were honored to be a part of an invasion into the Travis State Jail.
(To see more visit mikebarber.org or http://mikebarber.org/pictures/

The counselors were able to go into the dorms where the men were housed and minister in groups. One on one ministry right where they live is an opportunity to get to those who would otherwise not be reached in a church service.  I sat down at a domino game and it turned into an opportunity unmatched to speak into someone's life the Good News.

Here is Mike's message to the men that evening. Please Enjoy it. Thanks to Sean and all of those behind the scenes people that work so diligently to make these things happen smoothly. Hallelujah for the gift of stewardship!