lists from the sermon

Someone asked for the list from the sermon..........
Here are some of them.........

Wesley's three rules:

• Do no harm
• Do good
• Stay in love with God

Kathleen Moore's thoughts on how to know if we love someone:

One. To want to be near it, physically.
Number two. To want to know everything about it –
its story, its moods, what it looks like by moonlight.
Number three. To rejoice in the fact of it.
Number four. To fear its loss, and grieve for its injuries.
Five. To protect it – fiercely, mindlessly, futilely, and
maybe tragically, but to be helpless to do otherwise.
Six. To be transformed in its presence – lifted, lighter on
your feet, transparent, open to everything beautiful and new.
Number seven. To want to be joined with it, taken in by it, lost in it.
Number eight. To want the best for it.--. Desperately.

Jeff's list of spiritual disciplines or practices to stay in love with God:
1. Spend time w God in prayer
Getting to know him
It is a growing thing

2. Spend time in submission
Communion rail
make a fearless inventory
practice these words: I give my life to you

3. Spend time in the Scriptures
Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, any of the New Testament letters.

4. Devotional reading -Max lucado, Rob Bell, Bill Hybels, Dave Ramsey

5. Spend time with his people- acts of kindness
Those who love god and Those who need a cup of cold water

Wesley claimed that, in visiting the marginalized, we invite them to transform us, to transform our hearts, to transform our understanding, to transform us into instruments of the divine mercy and justice.

1 John 4:20 For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

When you love god, you will love god’s people. When you stop loving gods people, it is a sure sign that your heart has grown cold. Acts of kindness are the tangible signs of gods love. When we do this, the world gets it. They see that we are real.

6. We stay in love with God by spending Time in silence in nature.

Celebrating creation- 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:20

God speaks to the souls of his people through creation.

Ok, that is all the lists that I could find in the sermon yesterday.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.