Sunday, November 25, 2007

Church...Preparing as a Bride for the Coming Wedding - Sonny Oaman





It's amazing that the Bible starts and end with marriage! The next major thing He did after the creation is to institute marriage and one of the last major thing that will happen is the marriage of the Lamb! I believe that with this we can understand God's heart.

If we are so excited and looking forward on our wedding day here on earth, God is more excited on that day that we'll, as the Bride of Christ, meet Him and be with Him forever! The Bible says, that as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride so will our God rejoices over us (His Church). but before that glorious day comes, I believe that the Church, corporately, should prepare as the Bride of Christ. There will come a day that the wedding of the Lamb will come and the bride has made herself ready.

Jesus loves His Church so much that He gave up Himself for her so we can be set apart for Him to be holy. He will be presenting her to Himself as a radiant Church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish.In short, He is doing a lot of things in the Church today as part of the preparation for that special day! He is the One preparing the Church and we ought to cooperate with Him.

We need to be careful how live our lives until Jesus returns for us. I believe we need to live a life that honors and pleases God. And best of all, let's remain faithful to our Groom as we wait for His return.

Are you prepared to meet your Groom?

Friday, November 16, 2007

UPDATES: Be Inspired!



Instead of "Be refreshed" we're calling this section "Be inspired" instead! We want to highlight the podcasts we provide! Check out the new icon!

Monday, November 12, 2007

Feature Articles and Podcast




Hello! We have decided to split our original Be Refreshed feed into two! We now have a dedicated feed for the podcast (still the same URL as before) and dedicated this blog for feature articles.

What are feature articles? Glad you asked. Imagine a friend of yours blogs (publishes) something so incredibly refreshing you ended up crying, thanking God, and sharing it to 20 friends. Well we want to provide that kind of stuff right here! We will scour the blogosphere to find such articles, but at the same time will need YOUR HELP to send those to us. After we review it, you may just see it here! We also want to link bloggers in our church family who regularly share these God-stories and insights to the world!

Got something refreshing? Share it with us! We'll share it with the world!