This week

The roll play exercise in yesterday’s lesson worked well to draw out advice for dealing with burdens from different perspectives. “Say nothing” popped up as a potential response in both cases, which fit with the material in Isaiah 32-33. How did your class receive the lesson “Do you take your burdens to the Lord?”

Yesterday’s pulpit message from pastor Tom Elliff was outstanding. He works with the IMB to mentor missionaries, and spoke on the imperative of being with Jesus as a key component of experiencing the Lordship of Christ. He used a powerful illustration of a carpenter using a “handy” tool to do a job to make the point that Christ uses a believer who is nearby even though that person may not be the most prepared or “best” choice.

CFBC will not have Bible study this coming Sunday to make way for the large influx of people that come for Easter, so I won’t be blogging on the lesson LifeWay inserted for April 16, “Do you share the good news?” Instead, this week I’m reading Share Jesus Without Fear by William Fay (with Linda Evans Shepherd), which has the same lesson goal. A summary of the material in the book can be found here.

If some of you have read or also reading Fay’s book, please tell me what you think about it. Start by reading chapter 1 and Appendix 5, which covers Bill Fay’s testimony. His statement that “if God wants to change a life, He can do it” brought tears to my eyes. That’s so, because God changed my life on June 28, 1959 and has continued to do so since. When did you receive Jesus as Lord and Savior?