Jesus is Watching

-Late one night, a burglar broke into a house he thought was empty.
-He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when he heard a loud voice say: "Jesus is watching you!"
-Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again.
-"Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again.
-The burglar stopped dead again. He was frightened. Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage and in the cage was a parrot.
-He asked the parrot: "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?"
-"Yes," said the parrot.
-The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, and asked the parrot: "What's your name?"
-"Clarence," said the bird.
-"That's a dumb name for a parrot," sneered the burglar. "What idiot named you Clarence?"
-The parrot said, "The same idiot who named the Rottweiller Jesus."

Are you ready to serve?

Did you ever like having to sit out? I never wanted to come out of a game and didn't want to sit on the bench for 1 second. As Christians, we should be the same way. Don't be satisfied by sitting on the bench. Jesus wasn't! Jesus said in Matthew 20:28, 'just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,...' If we are going to follow after Jesus then we need to be ready to serve. We learn in the book of James that faith without works is dead (James 2:26). Not to say that we are saved by works, we are saved by the grace of God and only by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. What James is telling us is that we live out our faith by our actions. So are you ready? Where do we start? The best way to find your place of service is to discover your spiritual gifts. If you don't already know what your spiritual gifts are, get with me Sunday morning and I will have a survey that you can fill out that will help you find them. Let's get in the game and become more like Christ as we serve Him.

David