TNT CHRISTIAN EXPLOSION

Busy weekend ahead.  Trish and I through Calvary Christian Center’s SHINE ministry will be at Bunnell’s Restoration Day at Carver Gym  starting just past Noon on Saturday. We will be doing face painting, balloons, and kid’s games. We will be there with program coordinator, Jessie Love. Then, that evening I will be attending the Father and Daughter’s Ball at Calvary Christian Center at 7:00 pm. I will be going with my five daughters ranging from ages 16 to 27.  This will be an elegant affair costing only $10.00 per person. I am sure we will have great fun. Then on Sunday we head to worship, again at Calvary, for Father's Day to celebrate the father of us all, God our Father, and his Son Jesus Christ.  I am thankful to God for his graciousness towards me in all things.  I feel we are truly Blessed in all things. -- Tony                                      Posted by TNT Christian Explosion at 6/19/2009 01:57:00 PM 0 comments Labels: Blessings, daughters, family, father's day, ministry, SHINE

THE FAMILY GLUEIt is interesting how families often allow one person to be the “glue” that keeps all of them together. For our family that was my mother. While she was living my brother and I, and family all over the country were very close. We called each other and visited all the time; we checked on each other’s well being; we sacrificed for the other’s good or for the good of their household; and we forgave the faults of each other. We saw the power of unity in the family. But, once my mother died, all things fell apart. It wasn’t an immediate shatter. But the joints that were held together by her examples of love, patience and counter–dependence slowly disintegrate until all was completely demolished to nothing. This is a sad but successful ploy of the enemy. It leaves the appearance that he has power over our lives. We can look at the circumstances and be lulled into believing that he is right and that we will be separated forever. But, be careful for nothing. Do not be afraid to reach forward into dark places. Sometimes that is where we have to reach to pull a family member from the enemy. When we are small we are taught to fear the dark. We hear mysterious sounds and we feel lonely in the dark. So we tend to grow–up with the same fears and cautions with dark places. However, when we carry the Light of the Gospel, there is no darkness that can withstand or overcome the light; instead, light immediately overcomes the darkness in all circumstances. 

Greater is He that is in the believer than he that is in the world. No weapon formed against the believer shall be able to prosper, and no enemy shall be able to stand.If you are the “glue” person in your family that all look to and depend upon, push that dependence and faith in you hard towards Christ so that when you are gone there is a focal point that keeps all things together. For when Christ is lifted all members of the family will be drawn together by being drawn to him. As families that have separated encounter the savior, my prayer and hope is that they are reassembled into powers of unity to the glory of God showing the love, hope, trust, faith and forgiveness to one another that has been given to them through God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.