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Rhyming Sermon Notes: Resurrection Day 2023
Why is Good Friday good? 1 Peter 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. This year our church and another church restarted their tradition of celebrating Good Friday together, and for Resurrection Sunday our family joined my parents and sisters at my parent’s church. While we missed seeing our friends this morning, it is also a blessing to see my family and to join with the larger body of Christ for worship through song…
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Welcome to 3rd Culture Living
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself ” (Philippians 3:20-21).
We can’t do everything exactly the same way as we were raised, neither can we simply follow the flow in the cultures where we are living. We are committed to finding a “3rd Culture” in Christ in our daily living! We are not ashamed to live as “foreigners and strangers on earth” and “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. … ” (Hebrews 11:13-16).
“3rd Culture Living” is a lifestyle as a family, a progress to be prepared and equipped as citizens above; it is a way to apply what Apostle Paul teaches “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2).
In conclusion, the Golls’ definition of “3rd Culture Living” is:
We embrace our different cultures and other cultural exposures, to challenge us to renew our minds as we strive to not just follow our assumptions, but to apply Biblical principles in all aspects of our life in dealing with decisions, conflicts, and evaluating beliefs, to be passionate ambassadors for Christ through His daily transformation.
The above is excerpted from “What is 3rd Culture Living?“.
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Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2023 March
Whether just for myself, or my family, too.Rhyming notes helps me focus, and then helps us review. If they bring you a blessing, a meaningful read.I pray that by Jesus, your spirit is freed. A free man in Christ, and his bond servant, too.By His grace, as his child, is our spirit made new! Color…
Praying Scripture: Psalm 119:1-8 א ALEPH
This morning as I woke up, God put it on my heart to set aside my planned reading in Jeremiah and to write a prayer through a Psalm. I hadn’t realized that it was the 31st, when my Psalm reading for the day would be Psalm 119. (I often include Psalm 119 on months with…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2023 February
Whether just for my self, or my family, too.Rhyming notes helps me focus, and then helps us review. If they bring you a blessing, a meaningful read.I pray that by Jesus, your spirit is freed. A free man in Christ, and his bond servant, too.By His grace, as his child, is our spirit made new!…
Sourdough Part 4: From Dough to Bread
How does this sourdough starter become bread? If you’ve ever made bread with factory yeast, this will have similarities and differences. The biggest difference is time. With factory yeast, when you mix the yeast with warm water it is activated. You then have about three hours to use it before it is fizzled out and…
Sourdough Part 3: Starting & Feeding
How do you make sourdough starter? As mentioned above, you can start from scratch with just flour and water. You CAN do this, but for most people, I recommend just finding a friend who already has a strong sourdough starter and ask for a bit of theirs (about 100g will do). This is much easier…
Sourdough Part 2: Our Journey & Benefits
How we got started As you may know, Elyse is Chinese and we met while I was living in China for 10 years. Bread is not very common in China, so everything was learned started a few years ago when we came to the U.S. If we can do it… you can do it! At…
Sourdough Part 1: What is it? & Fermentation
Fermentation and an unseen army The past two years have been our family’s years of fermentation (both with learning, as discussed below, and in taking time to develop and grow our own family culture). It has been amazing to better understand the tiny world God created of good and bad bacteria, yeasts, and other microbes…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2023 January
Whether just for my self, or my family, too.Rhyming notes helps me focus, and then help us review. If they bring you a blessing, a meaningful read.I pray that by Jesus, your spirit is freed. A free man in Christ, and his bond servant, too.By His grace, as his child, is our spirit made new!…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2022 December
While I may be the only one reading these (that’s fine, and a good review for me), my prayer is that for anyone reading it could point to Christ, and perhaps be a good sermon review if you were there. Color Code: If these rhyming notes are a helpful review (or just a fun read),…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2022 November (GCNO & BSF)
The following are my rhyming notes from November 2022. It would be great to hear your ideas. When taking notes, there are times that I can’t think quickly enough for how to rhyme it. These are marked by “???”. If you have an idea for how to work that section to make it rhyme, you…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2022 October (GCNO & BSF)
The following are my rhyming notes from October 2022. They include notes from church and from BSF. I have not edited them after church other than correcting spelling, etc. while typing. You will see some areas with “????”, where I couldn’t rhyme them quickly enough while taking notes and still pay attention to the sermon.…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: 2022 September (GCNO & BSF)
The following are my rhyming notes from September 2022. They include notes from church and from BSF. I enjoyed the review just now while typing my notes. Perhaps they can be a blessing and nice review for you as well. Color Code: Grace Church of North Olmsted – Sunday, 2022-09-04Sunday School – Chris PierrePhilemon 1:4-7…
Rhyming Sermon Notes: BSF Week 1 “Genesis – Malachi”
We had the first regular study this week for People of the Promised Land 2, which will be studying from the time of Solomon through the prophets, until the end of the Hebrew (Old) testament. The study for this week was more of an introduction and overview study to get things going. The way BSF…
Praying Scripture: Psalm 33
Today is September 3, 2022, this makes our Psalm readings for the day Psalm 3, Psalm 33, Psalm 63, Psalm 93 & Psalm 123. (To turn that into an IQ test, what would the next Psalm be… if it existed?) Today’s readings come at a time when I have much on my mind and in…
How is Christ living in you?
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” – John 12:24 As a fairly new gardener, I am excited to learn new things about God’s creation along with my boys. Instead of focusing on the…
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