Crossway Fellowship

I have the most amazing privilege to work for this Church, to be a member of this church. I can not thank God enough for placing me and my family here, truthfully there are just not words. This is not merely a "body of Believers" this is a "family of Believers", and to be away for even just one Sunday morning Celebration tears at my heart. This place is my home, they hold so much of my love and my heart. I Encourage any of you who are not currently attending a church to come visit mine, theres no other place I'd rather be on a Sunday morning than here.

We have a pretty nifty website too. Check it out sometime: http://crosswayathens.org/

Carry Me

In the deepest place of my thoughts today, I find myself Frequently having to instill correction. I fight the temptation to believe that I can live this life by way of my own strength, oh! I am so blind, so wickedly deceived to believe these lies that the Devil puts before my path.It were that I could not even see a tree two feet in front of me, because of the mist that blinds me from it. It hides the true living beauty of the tree and masks it with a cold untouchable substance.

Much like my own blindness from the truth because of my own flesh and sin have put blinders on my eyes, keeping me from seeing the Truth that I am not Able to stand on my own two feet. I need a SAVIOR to carry me.


I NEED TO REMEMBER I AM NOTHING WITHOUT THE AMAZING SAVING GRACE OF THE GOSPEL



Here's a song I have just completed writing that I believe speaks of my heart on this matter:


Broken


Verse 1:

I want to be yours and yours only
To lay my life down before the one who laid His own
To die to self and live for no one else but you
For the Lamb who was slain, Humble Lamb who was slain

Chorus:

Break my hard heart and make it yours
Take my blindness and lead me with your voice
Take these weakened hands to Glorify the great I AM in praise
And as they are lifted High, Be Magnified

Verse 2:

I want to be the one who screams from the Highest Heights
Withholding no joy so that all might see
That God has used my mistakes for His Good
To bring me to my hands and knees

Chorus:

Break my hard heart and make it yours
Take my blindness and lead me with your voice
Take these weakened hands to Glorify the great I AM in praise
And as they are lifted High, Be Magnified


Verse 3:

I want to be the one who waits for that very day
As skies will part, the Mighty King to lead the way
On white steed He rides to carry home his precious bride
Saying Children enter in my grace

But till then I'll say


Chorus:

Break my hard heart and make it yours
Take my blindness and lead me with your voice
Take these weakened hands to Glorify the great I AM in praise
And as they are lifted High, Be Magnified

Awestruck by Beauty

I am overcome with such sweet love for babies and children without homes, adopted Children from all over the world. The joy they bring to life, even in the midst of the most terrible conditions, I am awe struck by their determination to fight for life. I want to adopt them all and keep them forever to myself. The warmth of their smiles.
The sadness of their tears.
The Joy their laughter brings.
They are all such beautiful gifts from God. Precious.


My Prayer is one day to be able to do this for a little boy or little girl.





You are a Gift.





You are Beautiful.

Girls day out

Here are some pictures for the girls "day out". I can't remember a time I've had this much fun... crazy girls.

Katie really set the stage for this one with her "WELCOME YA'LL".. This is supposed to be a revolt... common' Katie! GEE... :) and I'm about to thrown a brick... dude and I have superb aim look at the finger pointed... its aimed right for you.


We decided to go with a "brick wall" affect with this photo.. uh yah, cuz we cool like that.
Tara blowing kisses to Krista.. whose taking the photo.



Yah I know... looks like a cd cover.... well not exactly what we were going for... but it'll do, good job Becca.


Becca and I... having too much fun with the lamp post



Dramatic... looking aloof... off into the distance where our future hope awaits us...




Brief Beatles pose... cuz cars where impatient to wait for us while we were trying to be creative.



*Blowing KISSES*




- Rusty Painting thingy... I thought it'd be pretty nifty to climb it and all... but I was Told I'd probably fall and die. So I changed my mind...-




TARA you most def. were squishing my face in this pic... haha I like it




Whahahahaha KATIE you are a nut case



common... we like windows


uh, yah it was windy


we so gansta, Katie's belt completes this pic :] actually it really wasn't a belt but Krista's scarf, way to be creative.



I saved the best for last...

Desperately Desiring Righteousness

“If only we knew something of the glory and the wonder of this new life of righteousness, we should desire nothing else. Therefore let us look at the Lord Jesus Christ. That is how life should be lived, that is what we should be like. If only we really saw it. Look at the lives of His followers. Wouldn’t you really like to live like those men, wouldn’t you like to die like them? Is there any other life that is in any way comparable to it – holy, clean, pure, with the fruit of the spirit manifesting itself as ‘love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,, meekness, temperance.’ What a life, what a character. That is a man worthy of the name of man; that is life as it should be.”
-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Challenge Everything

DO you find when Things like missions trips, Campus min. outreaches, Sunday morning celebrations.... come about you have SO much faith for God to work? But when it comes to involve you, maybe your faith is tested? Maybe you begin to doubt your own capabilities, your own strengths, creativity. Maybe you don't feel "called" or "adequate" or as "important" as those evangelists/missionaries you see sharing the Gospel day after day on the street corners downtown. Maybe you are being held back because you have come to the conclusion that you don't know God as well as you thought, you don't know His word, you don't understand his truth.

BE ENCOURAGED Friend! We in our weakness are not going to have all the answers to God's word! We will fall short of the Glory of God, simply because of our own sin. When we are challenged by a question we might not know the answer to, its OK. It is far better to humble oneself in the knowing that we don't "know everything" than to boast in the falsity of our own knowledge. Your humility will draw those who Christ is calling through the Spirit's work of humility in you, to Himself. YOU CAN NOT DO THIS IN AND OF YOURSELF!!! By God's own grace and by His awesome timing he uses us for HIS glory. Don't be deceived its not for your glory, or my glory, its HIS glory, and HIS glory alone.

You will find that with Christ you have everything, He fills all those inadequacies. Get to know him, and you'll find that he's the source of everything you hold dear.

Dwell upon the Eternal

At this time and place in my life, I can be so easily distracted, so "ADD"... grr... I'm so aware that I need to drop everything I'm in the midst of, everything I hope for and surrender it to Christ.
I'm at that weird stage where... once an adolescent... now adult. So I am constantly surrounded by worldly confusion that clouds my vision from seeing the bigger picture, and I get stuck in a "me" state, and truthfully its hard to get out of.
For example: My heart's desire would be to be a wife, a mom, but its not the time. So When these things come up and draw my attention from BIG to small I need to dwell upon this:
Pursuing God whole-heartedly, rather than pursuing a Relationship. Being intentional and Purposeful with time spent with family & friends. Keeping God at the center of all my conversations, being purposeful with service, with my quite time, accountability, Fellowship. I need to remember that Satisfaction is and can not be found in marriage in and of itself. It can only, only be found in Christ, and in Him alone. Pursue God; find peace. Pursue God; find infinite joy. Pursue God; find a patience to wait for HIS will to come about.

It is my joy to wait, and an absolute gift to pursue God.

" Lord, please grant me the grace to awaken with a desire to pursue you with all that I am, and with a recognition that I lack SO very much. I don't want to come to you to get something in return. I want to come expecting to receive nothing. I want to come on my hands & knees."

Lost in Wonder

In the midst of trials and pain I want to completely be captivated by Love. I want to know someone cares, and someone is listening, I want to know that someone is right here with me.
If you take a moment and think about where Love was first defined, your thoughts should lead you towards the Cross. This is where Love is TRUELY DEFINED: By the blood of a man who was both fully man and fully divine, being sent by his father, the maker of all things, to die for the sins of the world, to make us all PURE & Righteous before God so that we now can dwell in light of eternity through believing in Christ's life, Death & ressurection.
WE ARE NOT SAVED THROUGH OUR OWN WORKS.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of GOD."
AND GOD UPON JUDGEMENT DAY WILL JUDGE BY HIS OWN ACCORD.
"He who has the son has life and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." - 1 John 5:12