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Not long ago my son and I were boxing when he kind of bobbed when he should of weaved and I sort of hit him in the nose. At first he smiled when I connected, but then he panicked when the blood started pouring out. My wife immediately jumped out of her seat and did everything she could to stop the bleeding. As she finished cleaning him up, I started washing his blood off the floor. It might as well have been pure gold to me. When everything settled down, I walked up to him and got down on one knee so I could look him right into his eyes. He was fighting back the tears. I said, “You know what makes me cry?” He was shocked. I don’t think he thought I ever cried. “You need to understand, when I saw you hurting, it broke my heart. I cried.” At that, my little man smiled and gave me a hug. Later that day, he was ready for another shot at the title. If you’re hurting this week, if you’re struggling through some circumstance, if you’re feeling hopeless, or you’re just trying to stop the bleeding. Remember what Jesus did when He saw His friends hurting in John 11:35. Jesus wept. He loves you the same way! Selah.
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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Where were you when it happened? Early morning on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 terrorists crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A third plane would be crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth plane headed for Washington D.C. was crashed in an empty field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 2,996 people lost their lives that day. They were mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, neighbors and strangers, co-workers and friends. They had responsibilities, plans, hopes, dreams, and people who loved them. Nineteen of them were terrorists – people who had nothing but hatred in their hearts – people who did not know God. Where were you when it happened? The answer to that question is something we will never forget. A more important question is: where will you be when you die? The answer to that question is one that 2,996 people that day may or may not have been prepared for. “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.” – Hebrews 9:27-28 Are you ready for that appointment? Selah.
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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“Do you love me?” I asked my mom when I was 5 years old. “Oh, yes of course.” She quickly responded. I knew that she did, but it felt really good to hear it. The fact was that in my mind I was convinced that she loved me more than anyone on the planet! Wanting to prove my point, I aimed my sights high and asked another question “Do you love me more than Dad?” she responded as kindly as she could, “No.” I quickly backed up and aimed lower. Thinking of my seven brothers and sisters I asked, “You love me more than the rest of them right?” She shocked me when she said, “No, I love you all the same.” How can you love people all the same? It’s a lesson I would learn later when I became a father. How can I love more than one person with all my heart? I loved my firstborn with all my heart, and my second, my third, my fourth, my fifth, and my sixth! How can I love them all the same? There is only one answer. The love we give to others isn’t drawn from the reservoir of our own heart … it flows from the heart of God. As John the beloved declared twice in his first epistle, “God is love.” He is always the initiator … especially of love. “We love Him because He first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19 … Selah
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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My son has recently developed an interest in knights. We’ve read books about them, played with medieval knight figurines we found at a local shop, and picked up a couple of plastic broad swords so we can refine our sword fighting skills. Though our battles in the living room have at times been epic, the deep life lessons have taken place at his bedside just before he goes to sleep. This is the place where we discuss the “virtues of a knight.” Honor – which he defines as, “thinking the right way and doing the right thing”, courage – which he says means, “don’t be scared”, and endurance – which he understands as meaning, “never give up!” Honor, courage, and endurance – my little guy needs these virtues imprinted on his noble heart as he learns to serve at the pleasure of the King of Kings. You see, there will be wars to wage, dragons to slay, and maybe even a damsel or two to save … and none of these are child’s play. “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” – 1 Timothy 6:12 … Selah.
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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While dealing with temporary madness, William Cowper struggled with suicidal thoughts. Again and again he sought to take his own life, and again and again he failed. He lay upon his penknife with the point aimed at his heart, but the knife broke and did not penetrate. Two times he attempted to hang himself, and two times his restraints broke. He planned to drink poison, but as often as he lifted the poison to his lips his fingers went into spasms. All the while guilt mounted heavily upon him. Convinced that he had offended God so deeply, he feared that he could never be forgiven. When he came to his senses he realized that God’s ability to forgive was far greater than his sin. He wrote, “Ever since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.” Can you relate to William Cowper’s struggle? Are you wrestling with a heavy burden of guilt? Oh that you would come to your senses and realize how great God’s power to forgive really is! Psalm 130:3-4 says, “If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.” … in other words, be in awe of God’s forgiveness! Selah.
Pastor Joe McCormick
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William Carey the father of modern missions once said, “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” This is one of my favorite quotes. It speaks of the deep desire we have for significance, and the great need we have for God. Many times I have come home to my family after a long day, greeted by their hugs and their questions, “How was your day?” … “Are you hungry for dinner? …and often times, “What fun thing are we going to do tonight?” The last question is a lot to live up to. Why do they ask the last question? … Because they remember that we have a history of doing fun things. Our prayers should be like that, asking our Father in heaven, “What great thing are we doing today?” We do well to pray this way because God has a history of doing great things. Know your God. As Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said, “There is nothing little in God.” God wants to bless you in great ways, because He wants to use you in great ways to bring glory and honor to His name. Ask Him, keep yourself available to Him, and obey Him… you will not be disappointed. He has said, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” – Jeremiah 33:3 Selah!
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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Though Patrick Henry had been a successful lawyer, a patriot who fought in the Revolutionary War, a bold investor, and a respected statesman, he had been too busy to read his Bible for most of his life. The man who famously said, “Give me liberty or give me death!” in Saint John’s Church also said these words about the Bible on his deathbed, “Here is a book worth more than all the other books which were ever printed; yet it is my misfortune never to have, till lately, found time to read it with proper attention and feeling.” Do you read your Bible? If not, what is stealing your time away? Notice that a man who was helping to found the greatest nation this world has ever seen recognized that it was his “misfortune” to have not made the time to read his Bible. It’s been well said, “a Bible that is falling apart is usually owned by a person who isn’t.” Does that describe you? Do you spend so much time turning the pages that the edges are worn and torn? Have you rifled through the scriptures so much that the binding has become loose? Is the leather cracked and peeling off from your many long and desperate hours of seeking closeness with the heart of God? Or is its binding still golden, its leather without crease, and its pages stuck together? Make time to read your Bible… those that do will say like Job, “I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” – Job 23:12 … Those who do shall have no regrets… regardless of your occupation. Selah.
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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“There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” These words from Betsie Ten Boom are so encouraging to me, because we all fail at one point or another. Maybe that’s why the old hymnist wrote, “prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love.” You see, our love for God isn’t strong enough to keep us where we need to be, but praise God His love for you and me is strong enough to pull us out of the deepest pit we may have fallen into! Thank God for His love, because that same love can be like a fetter that binds our wandering heart to Him, so that we do not leave Him in the first place. Listen to the way the apostle Paul writes about this issue in Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” No matter where you find yourself this week, remember this one fact … His love is stronger! Selah
-Pastor Joe McCormick
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