Life is Precious…

I spoke at another funeral yesterday…it was one of my cousins. He was 21 years old and had been battling cancer for the last 6 years. Keith was a real trooper throughout his battle. I cannot imagine what it must have been like for Him when he got to see Jesus face to face! His testimony was that he never questioned God aloud for his illness. I am not sure how much he questioned internally but Keith was always grateful for the life that God had given him while he was on the earth. He lived life to its fullest everyday; it was almost as if he truly had a grip on how precious life really is.

My question today is…how precious is life to you? It seems that every time that I do a funeral questions like this become more real to me. I question God a little bit more, about why things like this happen to a 21-year-old young man. I know that God is sovereign and omnipotent but me being the inquisitive person that I am…I need an answer. Every time, for me anyway, it comes back down to trust and faith. Trust in the Lord and have faith that He is who He is and His ways are higher than my ways. Nevertheless, days like yesterday are special and make me appreciate just how precious life really is! Live life to the fullest today in Christ and figure out new ways to make those closest to you realize just how precious life really is.

Until all have heard,

Rodney

Happenings…

† We had a wonderful Sunday at Crossway, thanks to everyone for coming and worshiping with us…Let’s continue to pray that our attendance will continue to rise this summer so that we can beat the normal church statistics from the church statistic people…”Whoever they are!”

† The “The Summer of Love” series kicked off with a blast…thanks a lot Creative Team for all of your hard work…You will not want to miss this Sunday as we start “ONE PRAYER”!

† XPECT our building campaign jumped back into high gear on Sunday…I hope that you and your family are praying about your part in this project. We will have pledge Sunday on July 13, 2008.

† If everything stays on track we will have workers working and hammers banging in our building on Friday or Monday…as the work starts on building out our “New Sanctuary”!!! These are exciting times for Crossway Church!

† My family is doing very good…we have a soccer camp going on this week and they are all helping work it or participating in it. Soccer in the summer hooah!

† Our summer intern is coming in this weekend…we are excited about having April serve on staff with us for the summer! Welcome to Crossway APRIL!!!

† Have a GREAT DAY!!!

Until all have heard,

Rodney