The Way Around
By: Erica Berberena
Many people have opinions on how other people should
live their lives. For example the youth of our day and age have people telling
them what they should be doing with their lives and how to do it. But here is
the real question is it the way that God chose for them. Our own individual
ways are not always understood. Jesus found this out himself for if his way had
been understood then just maybe he wouldn’t have been crucified. On a personal
note many of you know that I had gone off to college right after getting out of
high school. I had people telling me that it is the only way I could be someone
in life. I had people telling me that I should go for writing because I was
good at it. But the real question was did I love doing it and was it the way
that God had created for me. In the end I decided that it wasn’t the best for
me because I didn’t have a passion for it.
It is said that if you love doing the job you choose then it makes it
easier to do. We are all created differently than one another only God knows
the possibilities of us and only he knows who we actually are for he is the one
who created each of us to be different. Sometimes it is better to do what we
dream of doing with our lives because only God can create these dreams for us.
Sometimes we just need to stop and say God I put my life in your hands do with
it as you will because only he knows what our future holds. It’s better for us
to take God’s way for us and bypassing the ways chosen by other people for us because
their way may not be the best for us in our pursuit to be ourselves and not
carbon copies of what everyone expects us to be. In the end it is God who is
the best person to take the advice of which path we take because only he knows
everything.
Dear God we come to you today to ask that you take
us and steer us down the way you have chosen for us so we may become the people
you have designed us to be. Amen.
February 21, 2016
not listening to the
world
February 21, 2016
seeking our path
February 21, 2016
the path of God
February 21, 2016
a way around
February 21, 2016
around the stumbling
blocks
February 21, 2016
other paths
February 21, 2016
going another way
February 21, 2016
I need to let go
February 21, 2016
Stetson Memorial UMC
Second Sunday of Lent
“The Way”
Adapted Sermon Series
by Marcia McPhee
“The Wandering Way”
adapted by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s Whisper” blog
Psalm 8:1-4
Mark 1:16-20
sermon, “The Way Around”
text:
video:
by Erica Berberena
Children’s Message from empty Mystery Box
by Raymond A. Foss
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
2nd
Sunday in Lent
February
21, 2016
&
February 14, 2016
Stetson Memorial UMC
First Sunday of Lent
“The Way”
Adapted Sermon Series
by Marcia McPhee
“The Wandering Way”
All Scripture is from the
AMP Bible
Luke 1:46-49
Luke 4:1-2
Luke 15:11-32
sermon, “I Am A-Maze-D…”
text:
video:
by Pastor Ruth Foss
Children’s Message from Mystery Box
by Pastor Ruth Foss
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
1st
Sunday in Lent
February
14, 2016
&
Ash Wednesday service
Joel
2:12-17a
Matthew
6:1-6, 16-21
centering song,
“Surely the Presence”
Opening Words
Greeting
Lenten Prayer
Hymn, “In the
Garden”
Prayer of
Confession
Words of Assurance
Invitation to
Communion
Prayer after
Communion
Invitation to
receive ashes
Distribution of
Ashes
Lenten poem:
”Journeying to Jerusalem”
sermon,
“The Math of Lent 2.0”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
and
closing hymn,
“It
Is Well with My Soul”
Closing
Prayer
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Ash
Wednesday
February
10, 2016
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