http://crosspoint4u.org/blog Where Community Meets Compassion Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:53:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OMTL Day 18 Hurricanes   Today’s chapter was on withstanding the winds of change.  The only thing in life that is certain is change. The winds of change will either make you stronger or knock you down.    The book today talks about the problem with most of us is, that in the ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=86 OMTL Day 16 Star Power   Today’s chapter talks about God being the creator of the universe verses the theory that it all just happened.  If God did create the universe and if He did in fact have a plan for all this, then why did He create me, what is my ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=85 Today, October 4th was my birthday.  I woke up about 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep, I just tossed and turned and was irritated at the fact that I should be sleeping.  Around 6:30 I heard sirens going past our house.  It was time for me to ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=84 OMTL Day 13 Sandpaper   I really liked the analogies in today’s chapter.  It compared people in our lives to tools in a tool shed.  Each one has a specific reason it’s there and can be used to craft us into the work of art God wants us to be.  Here are ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=83 OMTL day 10 Ocean   Today’s chapter from the section, Love Completely, was on Forgiveness.  This was a difficult chapter for me.  For the most part, I really don’t hold grudges.  I’ve always thought of myself as someone who forgives pretty readily.  A few years ago I think that changed for me.  ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=82 OMTL day 11 Everest   Today’s chapter was about scaling the obstacles to unity.  We talked about these points on Sunday.  There are 3 mountains people have to overcome in relationships:  The Mountain of Misunderstanding, The Mountain of Me First, The Mountain of Mistakes.    I know that Carl and I have had ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=81 OMTL day 9 Heart of the Matter   Today’s reading was about relating and not waiting.  It talks about how difficult relationships can be and how many obstacles there are to loving other people and being loved by them.    This morning at exactly 1:22 my phone rang waking me up out of ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=79 OMTL Day 15 The Last Call   The lines of communication must stay open in order to have good relationships.  One of the questions for today’s chapter was, “Do you consider yourself a good listener?”  I snickered to myself and ask Carl, “Do you consider me a good listener?”  I knew what ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=78 Kim Keith - Children's Director Today’s chapter in the book, One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook compares doing life without the power of God to pushing a motorcycle around the motor cross track without ever kick starting the engine. That would be pretty hard to do and ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=77 Jonathan Chaney - Creative Director One of the nastiest high-side crashes I ever had was with my finances. Nikki and I came together without a real plan for our money. So it went where it wanted. We would spend everything we made and use credit cards to spend more. With just ... http://crosspoint4u.org/blog/?p=76