There is a difference between talking about God’s love and BEING GOD’S LOVE. Take a look at this story from the Associated Baptist Press about one Church that is BEING GOD’S LOVE and affecting their whole neighborhood.

HOUSTON (ABP) — What could bring together the members of a Houston Baptist church and employees of a restaurant known as much for its buxom, midriff-baring waitresses as for its food?

God’s love — and sharing it with neighbors in need, including hurricane victims.

The openness of Rice Temple Baptist Church enabled the congregation to partner with a group of Hooters waitresses to meet the needs of the people of Oak Island, Texas, a Galveston Bay coastal community almost completely wiped out in September by Hurricane Ike. Oak Island Baptist Church is the only building on the island still in use.

Waitresses from a Houston Hooters restaurant join members of Rice Temple Baptist Church in serving meals to residents of hurricane-ravaged Oak Island, Texas.

The Houston church

Google has purchased Feedburner, who you may not know is responsible for the distributing the AquiVerses many feeds to the world (The AquiCast, The AquiKnight, The AquiMan, and The AquiFamily blogs and Podcasts) all brought to you via the Feedburner main AquiFeed link (or AquiVerse link). Since Google has now purchased Feedburner, the old feed links will change to the new links in this post. It is important that you update your RSS FEED Readers to use the new links.

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Google claims that you will have a month that the old links will redirect before they stop them and only the new links will work. Therefore, it is best to update your information today and not be left behind.

One other thing, I do hope that you listen to my podcasts, The AquiCast, where I share the Word of God that is on my heart with you. If you do, I would like you to take a couple of moments and hop onto the blog site and on the right side click on the SURVEY and fill in the data so that I can get some feedback. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

I had an interesting dream about Proverbs 6:52. If you want to know what made the dream so interesting about this piece of Scripture then head over to A Call to Fast: Proverbs 6:52 Post and read all about it. Perhaps you can unravel the mystery.

The enemy formed another weapons against us and tried to come between my brother and me, but God is good and amazing and awesome and caused this weapon not to prosper as he promised he would. You can read all about it on the Daniel Fast Blog site called “A Call To Fast” where I posted the Testimony by clicking here. Our God truly is an awesome God!!

I always find it interesting that when I am having a good day that the enemy just can’t leave well enough along and that he has to attack me. I mean today I had a meeting that went very well and yet the enemy has been on my blood pressure all day long. So much, that I had to return home after my meeting and lay down instead of helping more at the church with the children’s program classes. Now no one was upset with me, but I am getting upset with the enemy stealing my time.

Then later today, we had our first connection group back for the new year and only my brother showed. Now, we had a good meeting with just the two of us, but there is so much more that God wants to do with this concept and this group and the enemy hit everyone else that could potentially have made it including our next door neighbor who was only asked an hour and a half before and took them out of the picture for the night. I know that this is just the enemy hitting and attacking at what the Lord wants to do and to be Frank, it is annoying me a bit. After all, we have the victory and he doesn’t. Even when he appears to win a battle, we win the war. But when we see him seem to win, it can take the wind out of our sails every now and then.

Following all of this, my wife was just exhausted from the day. Mind you, she had been going since 7:30 am and was doing a lot of physical work, but I was hoping for some us time where we could sit and watch one of the movies that I had set aside for us. I knew that I knew that I knew that it was probably not going to happen, but I was hoping and to have her falling asleep on the couch as I was finishing dinner was just one more instance where it was a good time and yet there was something that was just not all together there.

Tomorrow is another day and it is the Lord’s day and the good news is that God’s mercies are new every morning which is good because I know that I will need all that I can get.

Praise the Lord

I am excited because my copy of the Christian Writer’s Market 2009 arrived today and it is every bit as good as I expected it to be. A review of the book is coming the week of January 26th – January 30th, but let me just let you know that if you are a Christian Writer or want to be one this book is essential to your library because it lists everything you need to go from writing your masterpiece at home to getting it into the hands of the professionals who will put it in the market. Oh, oh, oh, I can’t wait to get into this one and then let you in on all the goodness.

On January 16th, Battlestar Galactica returns for the final 10 episodes of the final season, season 4. I am excited and can’t wait. In addition to this, for Christmas, my kids got me the Battlestar Galatica board game. I read the rules and it looks like a whole lot of fun. Now, I am looking to get a group of people together (plays seems to be best with 6 people playing) to play once a month on Thursdays. Then all will be complete. So say we all.